The footage of the man parking his car and approaching a woman to go for a coffee went viral and drew wide-ranging reactions online
Public debate over harassment intensified in the aftermath of the January 2011 uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak
CAIRO: Egypt’s highest Sunni Muslim authority has said there can be no justification for sexual harassment, in a country where many people often blame women themselves for the widespread problems they face.
In a statement Al-Azhar blasted all forms of harassment as “a forbidden act and deviant behavior” and said “the one who carries it out is a sinner.”“Criminalizing sexual harassment must be absolute and free from any condition or context,” the statement released Monday said.“Justifying sexual harassment with the behavior or clothing of the woman is a misunderstanding, for sexual harassment is an assault on the woman and her freedom and dignity,” it said.
Some 60 percent of women in Egypt said they had been victims of some form of sexual harassment during their lifetimes in a 2017 report from UN Women and Promundo.
Three quarters of men and 84 percent of women polled said that women who “dress provocatively deserve to be harassed.”
The divisions have been highlighted by a recent debate over a video posted on the Internet by an Egyptian woman showing a man making unwanted advances on her in a Cairo street.
Hostile atmosphere
The footage of the man parking his car and approaching a woman to go for a coffee went viral and drew wide-ranging reactions online.Some commentators said it definitely constituted harassment given the hostile atmosphere of the Cairo streets.
But others described the approach as normal given the man made no obscene gestures, and there were even suggestions the woman was at fault as she was welcoming advances by standing in the street.
Public debate over harassment intensified in the aftermath of the January 2011 uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak.
The protests demanding Mubarak’s ouster centered around Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where constant media coverage also highlighted sexual attacks and helped show public denial of the phenomenon. Following the 2011 uprising, anti-harassment graffiti spread around downtown Cairo, volunteers organized to rescue women from mob attacks, and more women shared their own stories publicly.
In February 2013, women took to the streets brandishing knives in a symbolic protest against sexual violence.
Authorities directly criminalized sexual harassment in June 2014, days before President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s inauguration, however many women complain that officials still turn a blind eye to the problem.
Source:arabnews.com
Makkah Imam Sheikh Saleh Al-Talib Arrested By Saudi Arabian Police
Sheikh Saleh Al-Talib who is a famous Makkah Imam, as well as the Preacher of Masjid Al Haram (Grand Mosque), has been arrested by Saudi Arabian forces as per the reports of Social media group Prisoners of Conscience. After a lot of fuzz, an activist cleared the air by telling that Makkah Imam Sheikh Saleh Al-Talib was arrested after a talk on EVIL DOING. He was arrested after he criticized King Salman and all the things he did wrong.
Al Talib tweeted our few tweets related to the topic of Hajj. Questions are spreading whether Al Talib made this social media post himself. Since 2017, King Salman has initiated a long-term arrest campaign which has led the Saudi forces to arrest journalists, human rights activists, moderate clerics as well as people in a business.
And these arrests has now reached Liberals and similar thinking people who are openly expressing how they think about different situations. Since Saudi Arabia never allows liberalism, so their security forces are making arrests whoever going against their law.
Last week, An Islamic scholar Sheikh Suleiman Dweesh lost the battle of his life in a Saudi Arabian jail after a long-term torture by security forces inside the jail. Islamic scholar Sheikh Suleiman Dweesh was arrested in April of 2016 after he openly shared his views which went against King Mohammad Bin Salman.
And the same thing happened with famous Makkah Imam Sheikh Saleh Al-Talib, only the sources can confirm that he has been arrested and kept in jail.
Source:
https://theislamicinformation.com
Saudi adviser:
Sanctions unlikely to stop Iran exports completely
If Iran closes Strait of Hormuz, the UN Security Council is likely to authorize military action . STAVAGNER, NORWAY: Current US sanctions on Iran are unlikely to stop Iranian oil exports completely, a long-time adviser at Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said on Tuesday, adding Iran would be unable to close the straits of Hormuz and Bab Al-Mandab even partially.Speaking at an oil conference in the Norwegian city of Stavanger, Ibrahim Al-Muhanna said Iran would be the first to lose out on a move to block those major shipping routes and that any such action would trigger further sanctions on Iran.
Iran has said if it cannot sell its oil due to US pressure, then no other regional country will be allowed to do so either, threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz.
“The amount of oil going through the Strait of Hormuz is so large. There’s more than 18 million barrels a day, about two-thirds of world maritime oil trade. Meaning, cutting oil from there will lead to an acute oil shortage and prices will skyrocket,” Muhanna said.
“Is Iran able or willing to close completely, or even partially, the Strait of Hormuz or Bab Al-Mandab, or both? The answer is no, and a really big no … Current sanctions are unlikely to stop Iranian exports completely.”
He said if Iran closes Strait of Hormuz, the UN Security Council is likely to authorize military action.
Earlier on Monday, Iran went to the UN highest court in a bid to have US sanctions lifted, calling the US move “naked economic aggression.”
Iran filed the case with the International Court of Justice in July, claiming that sanctions the Trump administration imposed on May 8 breach a 1955 bilateral agreement known as the Treaty of Amity that regulates economic and consular ties between the two countries.
At hearings at The Hague, Tehran asked judges at the world court to urgently suspend the sanctions to protect Iranian interests while the case challenging their legality is being heard — a process that can take years.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the legal move an attempt by Tehran “to interfere with the sovereign rights of the US to take lawful actions, including re-imposition of sanctions.
US President Donald Trump pulled out of a 2015 pact between Iran and major world powers under which sanctions were lifted in return for Tehran accepting curbs on its nuclear program. The Trump administration then announced unilateral plans to restore sanctions against Tehran.
Source: arabnews.com
