Appalling news from Egypt this morning. From the NYT:
“A woman needs to be confined within a framework that is controlled by the man of the house,” Osama Yehia Abu Salama, a Brotherhood family expert, said of the group’s general approach, speaking in a recent seminar for women training to become marriage counselors. Even if a wife were beaten by her husband, he advised, “Show her how she had a role in what happened to her.”“If he is to blame,” Mr. Abu Salama added, “she shares 30 percent or 40 percent of the fault.”
Nice,
huh? And Morsi's spokesperson sounds little better. (And let's remember
that Morsi is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood party.) But perhaps
the most awful thing about this report is the reaction of most women in
Egypt:
But Mr. Abu Salam also argued that husbands should keep their wives under tight control. “It’s the nature of the weak to overstep the required framework if she is given the space and the freedom, like children,” he said in the seminar. Most of the women nodded in agreement.
If
you read the linked story, you will be sickened -- guaranteed. That is,
if your morals aren't already skewed by religion or other vile notions.
