Cairo — A week ago, 21-year-old Nayera Ashraf said when her colleague approached her and stabbed her several times. I was trying to get through the gates of her university in Mansoura, a city in the north of Egypt. A horrifying video of the attack shows her fighting for her life on the ground as a bystander tries to help and the perpetrator shakes a knife on their face before cutting her throat. ..
Later, it became clear that Ashraf refused to propose to the attacker. The young man was soon detained and eventually arrested, and an Egyptian prosecutor introduced him to criminal prosecution on suspicion of planned murder. At the first hearing of the case on Sunday, the prosecutor said he found "a message threatening to cut her throat" from a man on Ashraf's phone.
Just as this crime was tragic and horrifying,violence against Egyptian womenis far from atypical and shortly after the murder. It may help explain the rhetoric reason used by one prominent religious person.
Unlike some more conservative Islamic countries, Egypt does not have a law requiring women to cover their hair in public. However, there are still many very conservative religious scholars and preachers in the country, advancing stories that blame the victims of violence against women. Even a vicious attack like Mansoura.
Ashraf, the victim of last week's attack, did not cover her hair.
He said, "When Shakes talked about the hijab (Islamic scarf), he said," It's a matter of personal freedom. " Sheikh Mablue Quatia told his more than a million followers in a video posted to him on the same day social media channel where Ashraf was murdered. "Then leave your hair, blow your cheeks, and wear tight clothes. Those who are drooling will hunt you down and kill you."
"If your life is precious to you Go out completely covered. Why. Poor and sexually disadvantaged people look at you and cut your throat, so keep them cutting your throat. " Sheikh, a former Islamic Dean of the University of Al-Azhar, the oldest university in Egypt.
The voice of Attia, who has hosted his television show for years and now appears on another show every week, is not uncommon in Egypt and the region. .. Many Islamic preachers push for more conservative thinking, arguing that hijab alone is not enough and that women need to cover their entire body and face.
But probably because of the timing of his remarks, Ashraf's blood polluted the city of Mansoura, where it still remains. They caused considerable repulsion.
The Egyptian National Women's Council condemned his remarks and said he would file a complaint with the clergy to the public prosecutor's office.
"Social culture and male rule to establish and perpetuate patriarchal authority, under its slogan, control and limit the role of women in religious motives. Find a heaven to justify violence, "Nagwa Ramadan, a member of the Edraak Foundation for Development and Equality, told CBS News.
She continues to "have great confidence in Sheikh's character" and teaches religious leaders in many Egyptians, especially in poor and poorly educated areas of the country. I'm looking for. Everyday life.
"Some of them literally use the language," said Ramadan, and celebrities such as Atia were "generally interested in women-targeted fatwas and the media. In the escalation of violence against women. ”
NCW survey ofshows that 7.9 million Egyptian women are violent in all forms each year Suffering from And less than 1% of this number reports incidents or seeks help. "
The Edraak Foundation stated that it recorded 335 violent crimes against Egyptian women and girls in January-April of this year alone. 2021was the previous year. It was almost double the number.
In addition to worrisome statistics, the cruelty of crime is also shocking. A few days before Ashraf was killed outside the university gate, the man said. She cut off her wife's ears and stabbed her 20 times after a domestic conflict.
Representing Egypt in various UN agencies and a leading Egyptian rights activist leading the National Feminist Union. Fatema Kaphagy told CBS News that in Egypt, various factors, including religion, politics, and financial hardship, have spurred an increase in violence of all kinds.
But he said he couldn't understand why preachers like Atia were allowed to continue. An extreme view of appearing on TV and pushing them.
"I don't know why they're focusing on women," she told CBS News. "There is arrogance and determination that they know it all. That is, such people should be removed from all media. They should be stopped, and enough, really, really enough. It's a religion. "
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