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By Charlotte AlterJune 9, 2014 3:55 PM EDTA horrific video of a nearly naked woman being attacked stanley cup in a crowd at Tahrir Square, Cairo during the inauguration festivities for Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Sunday has created a scandal in the wake of celebrations for the new leader.The video shows a woman wearing only a black shirt, surrounded by a group of men who appear to be ripping off her clothes and beating her. She has enormous bruises on the lower half of her body, which is completely naked. At the end of the two-minute video she is carried, bloody and bruised, to apparent safety in a vehicle. The video went viral on Facebook and Twitter, prompting anguished debate on the sites of activists against sexual harassment and violence in Egypt.The brutal attack is especially embarrassing considering Sisi recent promise to end the the pattern of sexual assaults that have occurred in the crowds stanley cup that have been gathering in Tahrir Square since the mass protests there three years ago. Sisi vowed during his campaign to restore the sense of shame to the perpetrators of sexual crimes, and his government recently announced it would toughen up the laws on sexual harassers.The Interior Ministry said in a statement Monday that seven men had been arrested for harassment during the inauguration festivities, but could not link the arrests directly to the men in the video. The celebrations included large crowds that reached thousands and mill stanley cup ions in some Xkzg Israel Is Experienced With Prisoner Exchanges and Their Consequences
By Elizabeth DiasSeptember 11, 2014 1:52 PM EDTWhile the nation watched President Obama primetime address the threat of ISIS Wednesday night, something else was happening in Washington: Senator Ted Cruz was getting booed off the stage of a Christian event.Cruz is often considered a rising darling of the American Christian right. He speaks at evangelical gatherings in the country, talks to groups of conservative pastors and headlines events with the Family Research Council. But Wednesday night, his Christian audience was largely Eastern and Arab. The brand of conservative, American evangelicalism that Cruz often championsmdash;one that often aligns itself with the state of Israelrsquo interestsmdash;did not sit well with everyone in attendance.Cruz was keynoting a adidas campus gala for In Defense of Christians IDC , an advocacy and awareness group that aims to bring the U.S.rsquo attention to the plight of ancient Christian communities in the Middle East, and to protect the rights of other religious minority gr adidas campus oups in the region. This week, IDC is hosting a three-day Summit, a conference bringing together a range of Middle E mizuno astern Christiansmdash;Orthodox, Catholic, Coptic, Syriac, Lebanese, Assyrian, to name a fewmdash;to foster a new sense of unity in the midst of a politically fraught season. Most of the panels at the summit are of a religious nature, but a handful of political leaders are slated gave remarks as well, including Senator Rob Portman R-OH . Former Secretary of |
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