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April 27, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/23/why_do_they_hate_us

Why Do They Hate Us? The Real War on Women Is in the Middle East

(Foreign Policy) Mona Eltahawy - The region has risen up, fueled not by the usual hatred of America and Israel but by a common demand for freedom. An entire political and economic system - one that treats half of humanity like animals - must be destroyed along with the other more obvious tyrannies choking off the region from its future. Until the rage shifts from the oppressors in our presidential palaces to the oppressors on our streets and in our homes, our revolution has not even begun. When Egyptian women are subjected to humiliating "virginity tests" merely for speaking out, it's no time for silence. When an article in the Egyptian criminal code says that if a woman has been beaten by her husband "with good intentions" no punitive damages can be obtained, then to hell with political correctness. Not a single Arab country ranks in the top 100 in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, putting the region as a whole solidly at the planet's rock bottom. Poor or rich, we all hate our women.

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