Yesterday I had blogged about Al Hilaly’s remarks and I said that they incite violence against women. Well today I would like to talk about the horrific acts that have taken place in downtown Cairo. First of all I would like to say I love Egypt and I do not like to criticize it. That is why anything I say in this entry is targeted only towards those horrible young men that acted in such a terrible manner. These men harrassed and assaulted young women (whether veiled or not) in downtown Cairo during Eid. Eid is supposed to be a time of celebration immediately following a holy month. People are supposed to rejoice! Those poor young women were just out to enjoy an evening of harmless fun with their friends when these men assaulted them. Of course the police was no where to be seen. The police are always the first on the scene of a strike or a demonstration, but when masses of men start to harrass women, no one is there to rescue them. It was upto the normal citizens and shopkeepers to help these young women escape. Now a lot of analysis is going on around why this happened. I do not care why it happened! What I do care about is that these young men must be found and punished! The ministry of interior is saying that since no one came forward with a complaint, they cannot do anything. They know that no one will come forward with a complaint as 1) No father will want to take his daughter to a police station and complain that she was groped or harrassed as this will tarnish her reputation (yes I know it is crazy but if a girl gets harrassed/assaulted/raped it is her reputation that gets tarnished and her chances of getting married plummet) and 2) No girl/woman will go alone to a police station to complain as she will be afraid and the policemen there will probably end up harrassing her. So the ministry of interior should launch an aggressive investigation by themselves and find those men and throw them in jail until they are too old to see.