The Veiling Of Women In Egypt
Posted by Michelle Moquin on January 29th, 2011
Good morning.
I have been stressing a bit over what to write this morning. I have to admit that over the past two days between my birthday and another friend’s birthday, I have been in my own little celebratory atmosphere, and tonight is not going to be any different. Thank you again for all of your warm birthday wishes.
However, I want to at least address the happenings in Egypt. For the past hour and a half I have been trying to catch up on the latest. It is obvious the people of Egypt want their president, aka “dictator”, Hosni Mubarak to step down, and he simply refuses to. And now he’s appointed a V.P., Omar Suleiman. Not exactly what the people of Egypt consider “sufficient change”.
I say more power to the people. Just like the people in Iran, I support their desires to become a modern and democratic society. I don’t like violence, but I am moved by revolutions when people finally to come to the point in their lives where enough is enough, and they stand up to fight for their freedoms and rights.
And as always, in these moments of uprising, I can’t help but think of how women will be affected and treated, now and in their future.
Here is a photographic story of the steady erosion of women’s rights in Egypt:
These photos, sent by my good friend Tareq Heggy, speak volumes about the politicization of the Islamic Veil. In the 1950s, Cairo University graduates were not veiled. By the twenty first century, the veiling of educated women was fully underway.
January 28, 2010
Class of 1959
Class of 1978
Class of 1995
Class of 2004
Readers: I apologize for the small photos; I attached them as big as I could. But you can certainly see the politicization of the veil. Please increase your screen view if you can not.
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January 29th, 2011 at 10:34 am
Michelle:
Arab men are mostly interested in their own needs. They could care less about arab women. They are content with granting us a little more rights than they give their animals.
They are such hypocritical phonies when it comes to religion. As soon as the leave their countries, they immediately begin chasing the other races women. They gamble, drink alcohol and do whatever comes to mind without any regard to the Koran’s teachings.
The only reason they act so religious is so they can use their religious cult to force us arab women to be their sex slaves.
Yes, we are under a horrible man here in Egypt. But arab women in Egypt are all under horrible men. Take your pick. Any man in Egypt can kill a woman without worry about retribution as long as he can accuse her of some violation of the koran.
I have NO sympathy for arab men. If Allah was to come today he would kill them all. I would bless the day.
Delatam
January 29th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Moslem men are always whining like sick dogs. They are constantly complaining about how others treat them. But they have no concern about how they treat their females.
They are such hypocrites. I pray that they will suffer more each day. Why should the jews treat them with respect when moslem men treat their females so cruelly.
Kunar
January 29th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Michelle:
Have no sympathy for the plight of arab men. Pray that they continue to suffer until they release the chains they have on their women.
We are but sex cattle that they bargain and sell at their leisure. They are nothing but sick pedophiles using their sick excuse for a religion to justify their disgusting sexual appetites.
The Western world looks the other way because they want our oil. We have to endure this slavery and hope that like the revolution in the USA that freed your blacks, we will be delivered from bondage.
Until then it is my sincere hope that the jews kill as many of these devils as possible. I look at my father and brothers, uncles, and cousins and pray to Allah that this is the last time I will have to see them.
Each day I pray that someone or something will kill them in the most horrible way imaginable. But while I am among them I smile and bow and obey and convey my love and affection for them.
I say in my heart if they can be hypocrites to the world, while being content to enslave me and my sisters and mother, I can be a hypocrite to their faces while I pray to Allah to remove them from the face of the earth.
So as they go to their rallies here in Egypt, I weep for them as they leave and as soon as they are gone I go to pray to Allah that Mubarak’s goons slay them in the most brutal of ways.
So please have no concern for how this plays out. Either way the women of Egypt will suffer.
If you pray to a God, Pray that She will allow the men to kill each other as painfully as they can.
Farah
January 29th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Play Your Way to a Better Brain
Ezriel E. Kornel, MD, FACS
Brain & Spine Surgeons of New York
Music-related video games that sharpen the mind: Guitar Hero and Rock Band. People who play along with the beat of the songs develop new connections between neurons and synapses, building up the brain. The games can be played alone or with a partner.
Personal interviewed Ezriel E. Kornel, MD, FACS, neurosurgeon, Brain & Spine Surgeons of New York, White Plains.
January 29th, 2011 at 11:22 am
I am not in Egypt. We moslem women suffer worst here in Yemen. I also pray that the men here die as miserably as possible. I also make no deference for my male relatives, rather I wish it all the more for them.
No truly thinking moslem woman would feel otherwise. Imagine what it is to know what freedom is and to be held from it?
Then imagine the how it feels to have to console men who weep and pledge to die for freedoms that they wish only for themselves?
Their lack of sensitivity for the feelings of their mothers, sisters, daughters, and other female relatives is appalling.
May Allah smite them in as grisly a manner as He can imagine.
Samagan
January 29th, 2011 at 11:34 am
If we ever discover who the above women are they will be stoned till their life slowly drains from their blasphemous bodies.
They have obviously been brainwashed by jews or western lies.
Allah is Great
Aazar
January 29th, 2011 at 11:36 am
I would remove the hands of those women and have them pray out loud to Allah for forgiveness.
Omed
January 29th, 2011 at 11:46 am
I have been following the uprising in Egypt. I agree with the moslem women. They really need to fear what may come.
If the new regime is replaced by a religious sect, their lives will only worsen. If half the population of a nation will not benefit from a revolution, why are we so concerned about how it turns out?
Oh, yeah, the OIL.
Janice
January 29th, 2011 at 11:48 am
All this says is that women are never satisfied with their situations. This is a man’s world and that is the way of things.
Get used to it, Zen Lill and Michelle.
And as far as you are concerned Zen Lill my wife knows her place and stays in it.
Steve
January 29th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Check this link out for the violence in Egypt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8287710/Police-in-Egypt-shoot-dead-protester-on-third-day-of-clashes.html?sms_ss=google&at_xt=4d4472f752eec4ce%2C0
January 29th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
We Americans watch what is happening in Egypt and sympathize with their plight. Others blame other americans. Namely Anonz.
Anonz is a true Paladin! Whenever I think of him I am reminded of these words from Theodore Roosevelt when he addressed those who be Critic to one such as Anonz.
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
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Whatever happens Anonz has accounted for himself well in the arena of altruism, and the worthy cause.
Connie
January 29th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
I left out the first part of the quote so as to not offend those who feel they are genuinely finding fault with Anonz. That was a mistake. It is not my place to edit Mr. Roosevelt. So here is the complete quote.
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
January 29th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
This is interesting.
Search for soldier who asked the wrong woman to wed
ttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8281314/Soldier-proposes-to-wrong-woman.html?sms_ss=google&at_xt=4d4474f8a7b5cc84%2C0
January 29th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
oops. Try this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8281314/Soldier-proposes-to-wrong-woman.html
January 29th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Michelle, Hi Babe(we all know what that stands for by now :).
How have you been? I heard you just had a birthday and I would like to wish you Happy Birthday, a little late but the sentiment is the same.
I have been long overdue in blogging in. Hope that all is well with you. Me, I am fine. I would also like to say hello to Zen Lill and all your other regulars.
I have missed your writes, yourself, ZL and your blog. And will be commenting more frequently.
George, you are still a bigoted asshole(who would expect any different)?
Yin Yang Al
January 29th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Glad to see you back Al. Don’t stay away so long next time. Your wit and sense of humor was sorely missed.
Linda
January 29th, 2011 at 5:25 pm
I was forced into a “marriage” at the age of 11. All I have ever known from the touch of a man is brutal rape. I am 31. Fortunately my husband was killed during one of his fun outings. He was very well off, so I have had the opportunity to become educated within this prison.
I hope they kill each other in Egypt, then maybe the Egyptian women will have some peace. I no longer believe in allah or any god. This world is hell and when we did wherever we go has to be heaven unless men get to go there too.
Kholm
January 29th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Didn’t think you were still among the human population, Al. Or are you a Cyborg who is practicing his people skills?
Henry
January 29th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
WHY DOCTORS NEED TO GET PHYSICAL
Many Daily Health News stories focus on what’s new in modern medicine (for better or worse), while many others explore ancient healing traditions — but today’s story is different from both of those.
We’re looking back to the relatively recent past and discussing the demise of something so basic that it’s hard to believe it is fading away — the physical exam.
The hands-on exam that doctors once relied upon as a diagnostic tool now seems positively quaint when compared with ultramodern, state-of-the-art technologies such as genetic testing and MRI scanning.
In medical circles, the trend is moving definitively in the direction of technology and the more the better — the thinking is that high-tech, in-depth electronic, chemical and nuclear tests can provide the information that doctors need with far greater precision than simple touch.
But, according to Henri Roca, MD, medical director at the Greenwich Hospital Center for Integrative Medicine in Cos Cob, Connecticut, this may not be providing the best care for patients.
Dr. Roca shared his concern that today’s doctors are devaluing the physical exam. He told me that he is worried that our reliance on tests and technology has gone too far.
“We’re so dependent on technology that it is as though we’re blind without it,” Dr. Roca said, recounting his experience working in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina had decimated the area’s hospitals and medical clinics.
“We didn’t have access to labs, CT scans or MRIs — and without the technology that modern medicine has come to rely on, many of the people who were the brightest shining stars in their respective fields of medicine were pretty helpless.”
Dr. Roca added, “I’m not speaking against technology, but I am questioning whether medicine should come to rely solely on technology.”
HANDS-ON EXAM HAS UNIQUE BENEFITS
According to Dr. Roca, the physical exam has benefits that can’t be overlooked, including…
It strengthens the doctor-patient bond. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of the relationship between a doctor and a patient, Dr. Roca points out, noting that it’s a way to establish “trust and security that will help healing occur.”
Performing a physical exam means that a physician is taking the time to listen to you, to ask questions about your symptoms and to touch you instead of simply ordering a battery of tests.
It saves money. Dr. Roca readily admits that physical exams take time — much more than it takes to simply write a prescription for tests — but a comprehensive physical exam often can provide information that renders expensive tests such as MRIs and CT scans unnecessary.
It keeps symptoms in focus. According to Dr. Roca, a pitfall of sophisticated imaging studies performed without the contextual information of a physical exam is that they often deliver more information than actually is helpful, perhaps even identifying new issues that are distracting rather than meaningful. Dr.
Roca said that these “incidental findings” can create anxiety for patients and lead to yet more invasive and expensive tests that ultimately prove unnecessary.
For instance, he said, MRIs often reveal what appear to be abnormalities but are “normal findings for that patient — they aren’t the cause of the problem.”
It’s interactive. Today’s patients often are better informed about medical problems and treatments than those of yesteryear, but this can sometimes complicate a doctor’s work.
For example, if you’re telling a doctor about a friend’s similar symptoms or discussing a fact or opinion you read online instead of your own experiences, you may omit important information that can help with a diagnosis, Dr. Roca said.
If the doctor performs a thorough physical exam, he/she will notice relevant signs and question you about your symptoms in a way that gets to the root of the problem — even if the problem isn’t what you thought it might be.
THREE TYPES OF PHYSICALS
Dr. Roca told me that there are three different types of physical exams, each of which has an important place in modern medicine:
The full physical — the classic “checkup.” Dr. Roca advises adult patients to have annual physical exams by their primary-care provider.
The “focused physical,” which might be done on interim visits and relates to specific symptoms.
For instance, if you’re seeing your doctor for a fever and a sore throat, he/she needs to look at your ears, nose and throat but doesn’t need to examine your feet and knees.
The physical exam done by a specialist, which is focused on the specific area being treated.
An ophthalmologist would closely examine your eyes and the surrounding area, while an orthopedist would closely examine a limb or a specific joint.
And what should a patient expect with the aforementioned “thorough physical exam?” Dr. Roca says it should be a complete head-to-toe look.
Though it quickly gets technical — each step has at least 10 substeps that look for various problems — at the very least your doctor should…
Perform a visual exam of the eyes and the insides of the ears, nose and throat.
Examine the throat and thyroid via external touch.
Palpate (examine by touch) muscles where you are feeling discomfort, looking for unusual tenderness, which could be a sign of injury.
Feel the lymph nodes (in the neck, under the arms and in the groin) to see if they’re swollen or enlarged.
Listen to the lungs, heart and abdomen.
Palpate the abdomen to feel the liver and the spleen.
Check muscles for strength and joints for movement.
Check reflexes to make sure the nerves are properly processing signals.
Check your balance.
DOES YOUR DOCTOR MAKE THE GRADE?
Dr. Roca urges people who feel dissatisfied with a doctor’s technique in performing a physical exam to voice their concerns.
For instance, if you’ve complained about a symptom that your doctor hasn’t checked out, ask to have that part of your body examined.
“This will require additional time, but it will lead to the experience that you want,” Dr. Roca said.
The end result will likely be a more detailed physical and a stronger relationship with your doctor — and that’s a win-win situation.
Source(s):
Henri J, Roca III, MD, LAc, DABHM, DAAFP, medical director, Greenwich Hospital Center for Integrative Medicine, Cos Cob, Connecticut.
Dr. Roca is a board-certified family physician, medical acupuncturist, hypnotherapist, massage therapist and biofeedback practitioner.
January 30th, 2011 at 11:02 am
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January 30th, 2011 at 11:03 am
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/22/ufos-help-innovative-thinkers-look-to-the-future/
January 31st, 2011 at 8:39 am
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