Comments on: Egyptian -and Muslim- Girls between a Rock and a Hard Place

By: Roy G

Roy G — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:41:20 +0000

LOL – thank you for speaking out Marwa. If a female doesn’t receive full respect for her individual rights and personal standing, I’m sure she might be harassed some just for mentioning those discrepancies. We’ve had numerous waves of civil rights struggles in the U.S. over the last 1 1/2 centuries, to equalize them for both genders, and for all ethnicities, age groups and physical infirmities. (had religious freedoms written into our founding Constitution prior to that)

And hello Karen, nice to see you Balkingback!

By: Marwa Rakha

Marwa Rakha — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:12:10 +0000

Thank you so much Roy for such an honor:)

By: Karen USA

Karen USA — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:39:19 +0000

That’s right, in America rarely ever is broadcast anything about day-to-day problems for Muslim women in Egypt or anywhere.

We’ve got just about total equality here with men, but still seem to run into a lot of double-standards!! I know just how it feels being misunderstood for chosing to do something completely ordinary. And Egypt is more modern than a lot of places, but is still fighting gender biases it sounds like.

By: Roy G

Roy G — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:48:07 +0000

Welcome Marwa of Global Voices Online. Nice international slant on a cultural / sociological issue. In the U.S., we receive virtually no media coverage of personal life in other nations - just the geopolitical and economic stuff mostly!