Abu al-Qumsan calls for its removal from the parliamentary election lists

Egyptian anger against the "woman's maid" candidate

• Saladin is called the "banana filter."

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• Yasmine Al-Khatib: Wafa Salah El-Din seeks fame.

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• Nihad Abu Al-Qumsan: The candidate's statements incite violence and bear insults against women.

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The statements of the Egyptian House of Representatives candidate, Wafaa Salah El-Din, in which she said that “a woman is the servant of her husband, and she must put his shoes on her head” provoked angry reactions in human rights circles, especially women, and Salah El-Din clashed with Egyptian women figures, including the writer and journalist Yasmine Al-Khatib. Meanwhile, the prominent feminist activist, Nihad Abu Al-Qumsan, called on the election commission to cancel the candidate or at least investigate her.

The candidate for the Shebin El-Kom constituency in Menoufia governorate in the 2020 parliamentary elections in Egypt (singles), caused a sensation with statements in which she said, "The man has his respect, and I was brought up as a servant to her husband, and we were raised to carry his shoes over our heads."

Salah El-Din said: “After the experience that I go through - you mean the elections - I became sure that marriage is a comfort, I swear to God, I was supposed to be sitting comfortably in my husband’s house, telling him what to prepare for you for lunch, O heart of Tutu ?!”

Adding that she was raised to be a servant to her husband, which is what the religion enjoins and we learned from our family, according to her saying.

A woman has nothing but her husband's house

Salah El-Din continued her statement by saying: “I see that no matter how high a woman is in public work, in the end she has nothing but her husband’s house, even if she becomes prime minister.

As a woman, if I reach the highest positions, I will not tell my husband, "I am the Deputy."

Saladin's statement, called the "Banana Candidate," sparked a sensation because of which she was forced to remove it from her Facebook page, and she tried to dilute it with another press statement in which she said that she published the "post" as a mockery, and that the more she was in a great position and worthy of her position She was big in the eyes of her husband, and this brings her happiness, and she is trying to encourage women to become better in order to grow up in the eyes of their husbands.

Feminists and human rights activists clashed on the communication sites with the statement. Writer and journalist Yasmine Al-Khatib, author of "Ibn Al-Murra", said that Salah El-Din seeks fame, and that she is walking on the path of the artist Sama Al-Masry.

Writer Rana Saad said, “Get the religion out of the matter. The believing woman is neither a servant nor a humiliator for anyone, and whoever believes in God is a free person who does not glorify nor sanctify anyone but God, and all of them have limits that they do not transgress, including the husband, and if you can deceive the like of men and some Women, the free ones do not give you weight. ”

Call to be written off

The director of the Women's Center, feminist activist Nihad Abu Al-Qumsan, attacked the female candidate, and said on her Facebook page: “To the Supreme Elections Committee ... to the Attorney General ... remove this woman for committing crimes inciting violence against women.

"This woman violates Article 25 of the Internet Crime Law, which is famous for the Egyptian family values."

Abu Al-Qamsan added, "This candidate is wrong to the system, the elections, the quota system, and violates the constitution, the law, and the policies of the Egyptian state."

TV recording

In the same context, Abu al-Qamsan entered into a televised debate with Wafa Salah al-Din on the "Public Opinion" program on the Egyptian "Ten" channel.

In the debate, Abul-Qumsan said that “the candidate’s statements incite violence and carry insults against women,” noting that there is nothing stipulating that a woman carries her husband's shoes over her head, adding that this is a lack of value.

Abu Al-Qumsan added, "The candidate is sticking to her point of view, evidenced by the fact that she has participated in all the press interviews attributed to her, with her headlines and text on her page, which reflects her pride in him."

For her part, Salah El-Din responded to Abul-Qumsan’s criticism and said that she insisted that the titles of her interviews were different from their contents, and that she knew that she was not a representative of men, but of men and women, and that those who accuse her of seeking fame do not realize that the path to fame is easy, and there are programs on which girls and women graduate She ensured, but ran to serve the people.

Salah El-Din explained that "the reason for her reference to the necessity of a woman carrying a man's shoes is that she is an orphan and knows the value of a father and his role, and when she said carrying a man's shoe she meant (the father) because it is a blessing only known to those who were deprived of it in his childhood."

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