Less than three weeks ago, an article appeared in The Washington Post discussing the achievements of women in Egypt during the revolution.
"Women think as differently as they dress here, but they have emerged from the barricades agreeing on one thing: This is their moment in history, and they cannot afford to lose it," wrote The Post's Kathy Lally from Cairo.
The tentative advancements Egyptian women thought they had made during the protests faltered Tuesday. According to Twitter reports from Cairo, a march planned for Tahrir Square in honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day was met by an even larger crowd of men deriding the women for being there and harassing them.
An Egyptian journalist, Ethar El-Katatney, wrote on Twitter, "Was just ranted at by a 'sheikh' telling me to go home and raise my kids." She reported that only a few hundred women had come to what they had been calling the Million Woman March but that thousands of men appeared in the square.
THIS WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN - AS IS THE HIJACKING OF THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION.
SIGH.
TO JOIN MODERNITY MUSLIMS MUST ABANDON ISLAM.
SORRY, IT'S JUST TRUE.
PROOF HERE AND HERE.
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