Hey it's Arab Spring in Egypt! Dragging semi-clothed women on the ground, by their hair, hey Salon, NPR, and NY Times! It's just kids!

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Hey NY Times! Let's get some virginity checks for these kids, right? That's what you wanted, right? And more genital mutilation, too!

12/18/11, "Obama's Foreign Policy Failure: Female protesters brutally beaten with metal poles as vicious soldiers drag girls through streets by their hair in day of shame," Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs

12/19/11, "Day of shame in the Middle East: Female protesters beaten with metal poles as vicious soldiers drag girls through streets," UK Daily Mail, Inderdeep Bains



Above, "This shocking image shows Egyptian army soldiers dragging this helpless woman on the ground and kicking her hard in the chest after ripping her clothes from her body." Reuters



Above, "The heavy handed Egyptian army soldiers drag the arrested a woman protester off by her hair," AP, Dec. 2011



Above, "Egyptian army soldiers use brutal force to arrest this female protester and drag her by her hair during clashes with military police near Cairo's Tahrir Square," ap

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5/31/11, "Egyptian general admits 'virginity checks' conducted on protesters," CNN, Shahira Amin

"A senior Egyptian general admits that "virginity checks" were performed on women arrested at a demonstration this spring, the first such admission after previous denials by military authorities.

The allegations arose in an Amnesty International report, published weeks after the March 9 protest. It claimed female demonstrators were beaten, given electric shocks, strip-searched, threatened with prostitution charges

• and forced to submit to virginity checks.

At that time, Maj. Amr Imam said 17 women had been arrested but denied allegations of torture or "virginity tests."

But now a senior general who asked not to be identified said the virginity tests were conducted

• and defended the practice.

"The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine," the general said. "These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters."...

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Since "Arab Spring" international support against Female Genital Mutilation has plummeted. New Egyptian government closed down agency aimed at preventing FGM. Maybe they needed more money for 'virginity checks.'

10/29/11, "For Young Women, a Horrifying Consequence of Mubarak’s Overthrow," The New Republic

"The decades-long movement to stop FGM has become a casualty of the power struggle in Egypt.

• The campaign to end FGM in Egypt was fighting an uphill battle before the revolution.

Although FGM was outlawed in 2007 after a 12-year-old girl died from the procedure, the practice is still widespread. Despite efforts to reduce it, the number of girls aged 15 to 17 who underwent FGM only dropped from 77 percent in 2005 to 74 percent in 2008, according to the 2008 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS). EDHS also showed that 91 percent of all women in Egypt between the ages of 15 and 49 have undergone FGM. "...




via Atlas Shrugs