In the case of the protests in Lebanon, women are in the front row. Encourage you to also comrades-in-arms in other Arab countries themselves to interfere. But there is also malice and ridicule from the male side.
The Kick comes from the hip, decisively, and rapidly. The bodyguard of the Lebanese Minister remains nothing other than the attack by a few steps back to Dodge and protect themselves from the young Lebanese who attacked him.
The Video that keeps this scene was clicked in social media in Lebanon and other Arab countries in different posts already, tens of thousands of Times. The incident occurred in Lebanon, according to media reports, on Thursday evening of last week (17.10.). On that day, the convoy of education Minister Akram Chehayeb was in Central Beirut in a demonstration trains in the Lebanese capital.
As the Situation became increasingly precarious, rose one of the bodyguards of the Minister out of the car and fired a gun into the air – a gesture that provoked the demonstrators even more. Then the young woman in Karate technique appeared after the bodyguard. The mind, apparently, immediately, that he had in unarmed confrontation with the woman of bad cards.
The protests are female
The message of the just-five-seconds-long Videos is clear: since the days of sustained Demonstration of the Lebanese people against the social and political evils in the country is highly determined – and she is a good female.
The Video of the woman with the swift Kick animated many user comments, most positive, even enthusiastic. A User called the young woman “Lara Croft from Lebanon”. “Respect!” quoted another user in a nutshell.
The current protests are more women than participating in conspicuous usually in the Lebanon. The citizens of the country wanted to interfere in politics, says the Algerian-born sociologist Nasser Al-Jabi appreciatively.
“The whole of society is interested in the developments of the past few days,” said Al-Jabi, compared to the DW. As particularly positive the fact that the protests had been mainly peaceful, and generally no one had been excluded. “This could be an example for protests elsewhere”, the sociologist.
Other than the above-described hand-gripping confrontation between a protester and a Bodyguard perhaps you could suggest it is just women who fight for unconditional non-violence at the protests.
“There are among the protesters, some who want to destroy the protest, trains and public property”, – quoted Lebanese “Daily Star”, for example, Hanin Nasser, one of the participants. You and your Girlfriends were strictly against such tendencies, said the young woman with the Lebanese newspaper. Their concern was to preserve the “peaceful face” of the rallies.
Self-confident and argumentative: women in the protests in Lebanon, a major role
Megaphone and belly dance
Not infrequently, women take the lead in the protests of a leadership role. You put some on the top of the demonstration trains, and vote on the Megaphone in the receivables. These range from the fight against corruption to the withdrawal of demands to Prime Minister Saad Hariri and the entire political Establishment.
Others entertained the demonstrators with belly dance Deposit a type of commitment that is not celebrated in the social media of the Arab world. Just Salafists and other strict and conservative forces in the Arab world liked such life-forms of protest of women not happy at all noticed a User in a Tweet in French.
Shorts and head scarf
Some of the demonstrators headscarf, many wear however – not uncommon in multi-confessional Lebanon, which, in addition to Sunnis, Shiites and Druze, many Christians of different denominational life. Compared to many other Arab countries, rather casual clothes, wear some of the demonstrators, sometimes leads to heated discussions – but also to the solidarity of women from other countries in the Region.
In Lebanon, it was fortunately possible that women could move in Shorts, unhindered, in the midst of large groups of men, the Egyptian women’s rights activist Hind El-Kholy is on Facebook. “If someone wants to know what masculinity means, he can see it here: several women feel in the midst of these groups. Not a single man tried the freedom of these women to restrict or even to attack, either physically or verbally.”
This is the situation of women vagina in Lebanon is fundamentally different from the one in Egypt, says El-Kholy. In fact, women in Egypt are harassed repeatedly and publicly attacked and humiliated. Participants in the protests of 2011 were attacked in Egypt, part of the security forces, but partly also of male, With protesters sexually.
However, the women in Lebanon have to fight for many rights. Only in the year 2017, a law was abolished that a rapist guarantees the freedom from punishment, if he decides to marry the rape victim. And in 2018, several women’s organizations launched the nationwide campaign “shame on whom?”. In it they called for a stricter prosecution of rapists, and advocated Public support for the victims. “Condemn the rapist, not the victim!”, the Motto of the movement was.
Loudly for women’s rights: protesters in Beirut in March 2018
Mocking and arrogant jokes
The protests of the women are perceived in many Parts of the Arab world, and discussed – sometimes with irony, skepticism or ridicule, the appearance and clothing of the women in the foreground. “I watched the demonstrations in Lebanon, but when my wife came, I switched quickly to the channel, who reported on the war in the Yemen,“ wrote the well-known Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris on Twitter with the views of the demonstrators. Its entry to the Egyptian business man, described as a “joke of the day” – others saw it as an expression of male Arrogance.
“Think of your own country, as there were demonstrations,” countered about the Lebanese actress Nicole Saba. “At the time, no one has made such a joke. It is strange that you like this kind of jokes. And it is shameful,” says the actress. Other users on Twitter, you concurred with: “Enough of male chauvinism, ignorant, and offensive jokes,” wrote a woman called Doja. “It is wrong to turn popular protests into a joke. Even worse is to make a joke against women,” noted another user.
Resentment was also directed against an article in the Saudi newspaper “Okaz”. She had given a report about the demonstrators in Lebanon, the more idiosyncratic titles: “Lebanese beauties: All of these wonderful women are revolutionary inside”.
The article was to a large extent only from the photos of selected demonstrators, described the leaf as “attractive” and “not only wonderful, but also revolutionary”. Also, this post has aroused on the part of the Lebanese demonstrators considerable resentment, and was perceived as sexist. “This is a poor journalism that uses the language of Perverts,” commented a user on Twitter. “These images are provocative and should not appear in a respected daily newspaper.”