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SCAF Judgemental Capabilities

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is not amused. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Amr announced that Cairo is seeking "clarifications over any statements by any foreign official regarding internal Egyptian matters".

He seems blissfully unaware that "internal Egyptian matters" are no longer "internal". Thanks to suppression of the Egyptian media the latest shocking photographs of the Egyptian military's kid-glove respectful handling of Egyptian ladies' dignity did not inform the average Egyptian of what was occurring in Tahrir Square.

It was the lavish posting of compelling photographs demonstrating the contempt of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces for the well-being, human rights and honour of the women of Egypt that was available to the international community to view, that eventually advised the Egyptian public. It was the external world looking directly into Egypt's "internal matters".

(Reuters) By Dina Zayed CAIRO | Wed Dec 21, 2011 11:30am EST

No longer is it possible to keep closeted from curious and judgemental eyes and attitudes such untoward, uncivil, embarrassing behaviour. So that, when the U.S. Secretary of State declares her country's opinion of what is happening, she is also reflecting the opinion of much of the scandalized and disappointed world when she states:

"This systematic degradation of Egyptian women dishonours the revolution, disgraces the state and its uniform and is not worthy of a great people."

As the ten thousand women, many of whom were furiously holding aloft some of those damning photos claimed, a red line has been crossed, unworthy of a great people. But this is obviously a perception not shared by Egypt's great military minds. The initial regret expressed, without admitting fault, has been followed by a more precise introspection.

Now the world has it on the final authority that the thousands of Egyptian women who took to the streets of Cairo to express their disgust, dismay, anger and fury at the beating and humiliation of the young woman whose black abaya was torn from her to leave her exposed and vulnerable during a violent physical attack, was herself responsible.

General Abdel Moneim Kato, retired, but an adviser to the Cairo ruling military council, informed Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat that the woman "had been insulting the army through a megaphone", leading to her being stripped and beaten. She was the author, as the saying goes, of her own misfortune.

And, it would appear obvious, that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has become the author of its own blackening of its reputation throughout the world, in its latest performance demonstrating how capably they were handling the ongoing protests from a population that appears to have good reason to find fault with its judgement.

Labels: Chaos, Communication, Conflict, Egypt, Security, Sexism

posted by Pieface @ Thursday, December 22, 2011