Saying ‘no’ to Arab women is a death sentence: ‘I will kill you if you reject me’

Imam Arshid He was killed by five shots on Thursday as he was taking an exam at a university in Jordan. three days ago, dozens of stab wounds broad daylight They ended the life of student Naira Ashraf in another university centre, this time in Egypt. These two murders, which were committed 400 kilometers apart, were committed for the same reason. Violence was born from ‘no’. “I will come and talk to you tomorrow and if you reject me I will kill you like the Egyptian killed that girl,” Arshid’s killer allegedly wrote on Facebook.

Also in Emirates, Jordan Lebanon Mansur murdered by her ex-husband. He stabbed her 15 times while leaving the house. The face of the Egyptian television presenter, Shaimaa Al JamalHe had been degraded by nitric acid when police found his body buried in the garden of his home on the outskirts of Cairo on Wednesday. Now she is wanted for her husband, a senior judge. in Egypt, one in three women is a victim of sexist violence. Names are added to this list every day throughout the region.

The faces of Imán, Naira, Luna, and Shaimaa joined the faces of these women. negative in the patriarchal system He sentenced them to death. “Many authorities ignore these issues of violence, dwarf their harm and savageryuntil souls are taken away after tasting pain and terror,” tweeted the Saudi feminist activist. Lujain Al Hazlul. “Some are trying justify the criminal’s actions and they are trying to purify their image as if they are preparing a safe path for the next crime,” he added.

Broad daylight

The scourge of violence against women is plaguing every corner of the planet, but these deaths in broad daylight show that worrying lack of protection that’s what these young women are doomed to. “We do not take the complaints of young women seriously and fight for women’s rights “They’re ‘encouraging’ girls and causing trouble, this will be the result,” he said. Nehad Abu al-Komsan, lawyer and women’s rights activist, on her Instagram account. this conservative societies Arab countries tend to sweep these deaths under the rug.

For this reason, various feminist organizations in the region came together. women’s general strike on 6 July. “The level of violence is extraordinary, so our action must be extraordinary and our loss, whatever it may be, will not be greater than the lives of women,” the Facebook event’s statement said. About 20,000 people They participated in the initiative ‘Women’s General Strike from the Ocean to the Bay’: Stop Femicide‘. “Almost given the oppressive context in that region impossible street protestIn defense of the Feminist Consciousness collective, they propose to protest the “genocide” they have suffered by “not going to work or doing housework”.

Institutions against women

without gender awareness women in the Middle East and North Africa who penetrate institutions, lack of official figuresprotective mechanisms and the judicial system protect them. “While crime is horrific, it is not frivolous: it is a perfectly logical conclusion that society sees women only as accessories that serve the pleasure of the dominant male sex,” the journalist writes. Kareem Shaheen in the magazine New Lines. For example, in Egypt eight million women According to a United Nations survey conducted in 2015, they were victims of violence perpetrated by their spouses or relatives, or by strangers in public spaces.

In 2021, 813 cases of aggression were recorded, respectively. 296 murdersAccording to Egypt’s Observatory on Violence Against Women, some data from local media and statements from the Public Ministry due to the lack of statistics in the African country. There they condemned death penalty a Mohammed AdeleThe confessional murderer of Naira Ashraf. She killed him when she turned down the marriage proposal months after both she and her family denounced her abuse to the authorities. Complaints are useless.

Imán Arshid’s killer, on the other hand, committed suicide when surrounded by the police. “Everyday, women’s lives go away just because they deny something: an idea, a principle, a relationship, even a person”, the Egyptian actress tweeted Sarah Abdelrahman. “When will we know how to say ‘no’ unless we fear the consequences of the word?” she asked. However, violence does not only begin after these rejections.

* بيان اضراب نسائي عام* ها نحن ، في المنطقة من المحيط إلى ن نواجه معاً إلى جانب المجموعات المضطهدة …

Posted by Edrab Nisaei on Monday, 27 June 2022

The systems themselves discriminate against and punish women for being women. With citizenship laws that don’t allow them to pass citizenship on to their children. with him obsession with covering their body. With their stubbornness to control their lives and look the other way when their relatives kill them another honor killing. By tolerating the common harassment in public places. This is so common that Imán was murdered by the assassins of Naira and Lubna at their university or at the doorstep of their home. Simply because they can. Because they let them.


Source: Informacion

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