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Don’t rape me, but kill the Jews: The ethics of the Egyptian hero Samira Ibrahim, a women’s rights activist.
March 8, 2013 · 0 Comments
The American State Department is postponing its awarding of the International Women of Courage Award to her in light of these comments.
The newest is that Ibrahim herself has spoken, writing in Arabic on her Twitter page. Egyptian democracy activist Mina Rezkalla provides the translation: “I refuse to apologize to the Zionist lobby in America regarding my previous anti-Zionist statements under pressure from American government therefore they withdrew the award.”
She has been criticized by Samuel Tadros in The Weekly Standard for what he called her anti-Semitic views. On Twitter, she quoted Adolf Hitler, writing: “I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Jews having a hand in it. Hitler.” In reaction to a suicide bombing of a bus of Israelis in Bulgaria, she wrote “Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news.” [4] In 2012 on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she tweeted “Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning”.
On March 9, 2011, she participated in a sit-in at Tahrir Square in Cairo. The military violently dispersed protest participants, and Samira and other women were beaten, given electric shocks, strip searched, and videotaped by the soldiers. They were also subjected to virginity tests. The tests were allegedly carried out to protect the soldiers from claims of rape.
After succeeding in placing the case in front of a civilian court, a court order was issued in December 2011 to stop the practice of “virginity tests”. However in March 2012, a military court exonerated Dr. Adel El Mogy from charges laid in connection with the virginity testing of Ibrahim.
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