Sexual harassment in Egypt : how the case is so different

[Zenith]

I couldn't see a direct link to islam. Instead it was mainly an "honor" thing.

CapnAwesome

The Muslim world is still stuck & drenched in an ancient cage, because simply the Ottoman Empire lost the last wars, along with its colonies siding with the west, to go through the humiliating cake-slicing of Sykes & Picot agreement.

What I'm saying is, Egypt in the 50s & the 60s was something else ; it wasn't like this. Turkey, another Muslim country, doesn't share this same culture. Malaysia is the same case.

Once you screw a region economically, the true colors of the culture would show up, along with any hideous cultural background. And again, you'll find countries like Tunisia, which escaped the fate of Egypt & other Arab countries.

I say, the more a country had a history of warfare that ended up with "defeats" & economical collapses, the more that country would evolve into something nasty.

South america has similar examples -even more brutal at some cases-.

AtlasS2, let me tell you what I believe is utterly wrong with Islam and how Islam is as evil as Egypt is: Whenever there is something evil being done, neither me nor, I think, anybody else, sees representatives of Islam, neither within Egypt, nor throughout the world ACCUSING the bad culture in Egypt. Everywhere the imams and whatever high officials, make themselves accomplices to the atrocities committed by others (here, by egyptians) by NOT TAKING ANY ACT against them. Instead, they ally themselves with all those wicked people, because they share the same religion and share the same objectives (increase the number of muslims; increase confidence in Islam and its representatives) - so all this evil that is being done in Egypt and many other countries simply becomes low priority to them. If they had shown to the whole wide world what bad things other muslims do, it would have stained the names of the muslims, but it would have been a righteous deed.

I do not believe countries like Iraq, Iran, Syria and others stand so poorly because of economic failure after the 1st world war. Come on, look how much European countries had been DEVASTATED by the 2nd world war. The problem is the mentality and education. All countries in the world that used to be colonies have turned into anarchy & civil wars after they obtained their freedom (from the colonists). I believe quite in all cases it was so bad that it would have been better for them if the Western countries had never left them free. The problem was that people were not ready to govern themselves; they lacked institutions (or, good institutions) that any civilized country has; instead of education they knew only to obey the rulers (some kind of dictatorship), so they can't live by democracy. And no, the teachings of Islam did not help them.

And Islam here proves that it is NOT a religion given by a God: If it were, it would have pushed a country with big problems into civilization, instead of making muslims justify that the religion they all follow has nothing to do with it. The same happened (and still happens) with Christianity: It was not Christianity what pushed the countries into better civilizations; instead, it was the secular ideologies what modernized Christianity.