Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt for “indecent behavior,” according to reports in the Egyptian news media. But when they burst into a beauty salon in the Nile delta town of Benha this week and ordered the women inside to stop what they were doing or face physical punishment, the women struck back, whipping them with their own canes before kicking them out to the street in front of an astonished crowd of onlookers.Read the story here.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman..."
... who's had her salon appointment interrupted by a bunch of young zealots. To wit:
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