Nayera was an Egyptian girl who was killed in the daylight just outside of her university in Mansoura 200 km away from Cairo. The killer decided to kill her aftter she refused his marriage proposal. An actual footage of the full crime, captured by one of the CCTV cameras, were shared widely on the social media. Many felt sorry for the victim but it did not take long until she was shamelessly blamed. Mabrouk Atteya, a well-know Muslim scholar, posted a video on his facebook page commenting on the incident saying that women should all cover in cloths before leaving their house or they would risk getting killed. The scholar later apologised and tried to rephrase what he said as he was just "concerned" about the safety of women who wear revealing clothes. Of course, he just cares for women's safety, and he is trying to advise women for their own good and protection.
Some volunteers collected donations for the Deyya (Islam-approved compensation for the victim's family that can replace the death penalty or in some cases the prison time) these donations were collected by some who felt empathy for the killer or perhaps thought the victim deserved what they got, or maybe the crime is too small to get the man a life time prison or a death sentence. He just killed a woman in the sight of everyone.
A couple of months before, 2 university students, were attacked by another woman on the underground metro in Cairo. The elderly woman attacked them based on their "half sleeves" outfits. The video was widely shared and before it reaches the general prosecution that later published a statement that included the elderly woman's apology to the girls. Of course, she, too, was trying to protect the little girls who are not wearing full sleeves and not “protecting” themselves.
We should have a very clear understanding on how big the influence of the anti women rights forces is. These forces are often same forces that will claim to be Anti human rights, Anti Democracy, anti Gender, anti LGBTQ+, anti inclusion, and anti diversity. They are strong, influencing, and in power making positions and most importantly backed and supported by many who use whatever they have to keep these forces prevailing and their ideologies. They use their satire to mock the death of Sarah Hejazi with Haha react on every post that shows solidarity with her and her struggle. They also mock any who shows some empathy for the LGBTQ+ communities. They advocated for the killers in Fairmont rape incident using the traditional patriarchal phrases of "why has she gone there at the first place?", “wasn't she drinking?” or “isn't that what she wanted?”
"Women can not have their rights protected. Women can not wear whatever they want and not expect to get raped or killed. If women become free we, as a society, will collapse. Women must get punished for their existence. Women must look submissive, act submissive and be grateful for the patriarchal protection." This is what they believe, even if they did not say these words verbally they say it loud and clear with actions. Of course, their society in which the patriarchy is the main pillar, once women rights are granted, or once they are treated equally and not getting killed on the streets exclusively because they are women, it will collapse.
Femicide is a global issue on the rise! It might be helpful to see this as a part of the global right-wing rise globally that lead in a way or another to these senes. Even if it varied in its manifestation it deeply agrees on the roots. Headlines such as Over 100 women were killed in the UK after Sarah Everard bloody murder. and in the US 5 women are killed a day can be understood in this context.
This is a bloody -literally- manifestation of how misogyny and homophobia kills. It kill directly like Nayera or indirectly like Sara Hejazi. These crimes are not results of the patriarchal social setting backed by these “traditional” and conservative forces, these crimes are authentic features of these sociality settings.
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