The singer and director, Tamim Younes, is facing a wide human rights campaign demanding the cessation of his song "Salmonella" because it incites hatred for women, according to several opposition statements. He called the "National Council for Women", in a statement, to stop the song. »From the song as being bullied against women, and outside of public morals, Yunus rejected the accusations against him, and considered his song carrying a positive message.
In detail, the song "Salmonella" caused a sensation in the Egyptian street and on the pages of "Facebook", and individual voices, organizations and groups demanded its immediate ban.
The song won its first broadcast on Twitter, one of which was related to the word "Salmonella", and the second was related to "Tamim Younis", as it was the owner of the song "Anti any Talk", which won a wide spread, but a broad opposition wave started after the calm of the attraction The first.
The use of the word "salmonella" - a medical name called "salmonella" - a bacterial disease that affects the stomach, has grown in the animal intestine, and is transmitted to humans through water or food, through eating meat, poultry, eggs, or animal products. Raw, reflected in symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, fever, and abdominal cramps - widespread discontent among the audience, considering their use in an emotional song unsuccessful.
The National Council for Women issued a statement condemning the song, and also filed a complaint with the management of Google to stop broadcasting the song currently circulating on the communication sites, considering it carrying a message that insults women and diminishes their rights, calls for bullying, and is a blatant incitement to attack her.
In its statement, the council said: “The song also contains expressions and words outside the public morals, and establishes the crime of insulting and slandering through electronic communication sites, in accordance with the Penal Code and Law No. 175 of 2018 regarding combating information technology crimes.”
The council emphasized that “the song represents a serious violation of the media honor code and the code of professional conduct for the year 2017, which has become binding on all media professionals, and by extension the media outlets since this date, and provides for respecting human dignity and not offending any group of society”, stressing “the seriousness of such Media contents on the Egyptian society, which recently suffers from challenges related to confronting violence against women in its many forms, including harassment, and although the song owner announced that it came as a mockery of patterns of violence directed against women, it came in a framework that justifies violent violence It against it, and is considered disregard and flatter by a serious issue and community, especially the song that deals with the subject of careful work to combat a state of violence against women in all its forms ».
In the same context, the complaints committee of the Supreme Council of Information, headed by journalist writer Gamal Shawky, received a complaint submitted regarding the song, “as the complaint considered it offensive to Egyptian women.”
For her part, the activist in the field of women's rights and the owner of the program “Hikat Nihad” on “Echo Al-Balad” channel, Nihad Abu Al-Qumsan, commented on the song: “She is not a supporter of the ban, and with the goods left to the public to sort them out and show the good from the bad.”
Abu Al-Qumsan added, in a phone call to the “Cairo Now” program, presented by the media, to Lamees Al-Hadidi, on Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath’s screen, “Nevertheless, the Council’s move with this song is important in this regard, as it relates to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that The principles of freedoms, but they also stipulate the difference between freedom of creativity, hate crimes and ideas that spread racism and discrimination.