When it comes – if it comes – it isn’t going to another 4th of July:
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.
No, I suppose not.
Update: Things are not much better in the Crimea.
Ivan knew he had a time bomb in Muslims and so watched them carefully. The Party didn’t like Christians because they believed in something larger than themselves and the party. The knew, however, that Christians didn’t intend evil against the state. Muslims believed in something higher than the state and Party, and they wanted to tear the entire thing down as well.
You are right about the Arab Spring not being July 4th as well. As we are now seeing the under lying anti-Hebrew sentiments are coming to the fore in Egypt, and a Nazi Party is also about to come out of hiding. Egypt was a Nazi stronghold in WW2, and the Nazi philosophies mesh well with Muslims and their various hatreds.
The most serious question I have is what will happen across the Maghreb? Will they come together with their Muslim brothers in the Levant and cause a ton of trouble? This isn’t going to end well for us or Israel.