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While Dina Hisham, the daughter of the famous doctor, Heba Kotb, was broadcasting a video clip of her crying, complaining that she was prevented from going into the swimming pool in a tourist village because she was wearing the veil known as the "burkini", Habiba Tarek - a university student - was exposed to what she called. Bullying" by the exam committee observers because she was wearing a dress that they considered short, asking her to wear pants.
As soon as each of the two girls published what they had been exposed to, a regular seasonal debate broke out in Egypt with each summer about the most appropriate dress for girls and women when they left the house and went to the sea and swimming pools.
The controversy continued over the past few hours, and tweets are still involved in it, seeking greater influence that tip the scales in favor of what each team believes.
The controversy blew up issues, including the "duplication" of official dealings in each case, as the incidents of assaulting "modest" girls are treated with "disregard", while "firmly" is dealt with when criticizing the costumes of "make-up" girls, according to the opinion of tweeters.
All this controversy is taking place in Egypt, which is threatened by thirst because of the Ethiopian dam, according to tweets, who considered what is happening deliberately to distract Egyptians from the useful debate about the future of the water they drink and grow with.
"I lived in Canada for 10 years, what happened?"
An Egyptian girl cries after being prevented from entering a swimming pool because of her hijab pic.twitter.com/tFjnQkz9SC
— Monitoring Network (@RassdNewsN) June 26, 2021
Amr Adeeb’s full comment on preventing a girl from going into a swimming pool because of the full legal swimsuit # Hekaya # MBCMASR
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— The Story (@Elhekayashow) June 26, 2021
Controversy at the Water's Edge
At the edge of the pool, Dina was standing with her friend, arguing with a tourist village employee that she had the right to swim in a burkini, asserting that the Ministry of Tourism allowed it.
In the video broadcast by the girl, she pointed out that the burkini is more expensive than the rest of the swimwear she had previously bought, stressing that she had lived in Canada for years without anyone forcing her to wear a specific outfit when going to the swimming pool, and considered that there was a tendency to force girls to nude in some areas.
Tweeters went to denounce the idea of wearing the burkini from the ground up as a circumvention of religion, while others emphasized the absolute freedom of choice for girls to wear what they want anywhere, while tweets said that public taste and the instructions of the places in which they are must be taken into account.
college girl
Despite the media attention that the incident received after the video viewership rates reached about one million views on the Instagram application in a short time, she was less fortunate than the girl Habiba, a student at Tanta University, where the two employees who “bullyed” her outfit were referred to investigation by a decision of the University administration.
The student told the incident her story, saying that the committee's monitoring asked her to show her identity, and when she saw her veiled in the card, she "sarcastically asked her about her religious identity," and added in sarcasm, "Forgot to put your pants on?"
“Blank talk, and every one of them is an ISIS terrorist.” A fiery comment from Al-Dihi on the incident of bullying against “The Girl of the Dress” at Tanta University # With the paper and the pen #TeNTV pic.twitter.com/grQC8vqjqK
- A program with paper and pen (@blwar2awel2alm) June 26, 2021
The dress that the heart of Tanta University 🧐🥺
and the
veiled
sister with the veil they liked...a scandalous thing 🤬😡
My daughter, you are more modest than the text of Egypt's veiled women with the awareness of stretching and body...and you don't care...His girlhood is gentle and beautiful at a time when the Egyptian street has lost its beauty pic.twitter. com/fsCpTzuC40
— hala (@HalaElZieny) June 26, 2021
To the extent that the extremist takfiri ideology has penetrated our society and people's thoughts.. what is in it?
The one who wears a hijab she wears with her comfort, and the one who wears a dress she wears with her comfort.. It is you who will hold people accountable.. Enough to leave you behind. Take us back 50 years.
— Amr Fahmy (@AmrFahm51034920) June 27, 2021
Despite these measures to support her, the girl went to university today, Sunday, wearing pants to take the exam, and her father was with her, who said in press statements that "there is no guardianship of anyone over his daughter."
Tweeters defended the girl's right to wear the dress in terms of confronting "terrorism and atonement" and supporting her in her personal freedom.
On the other hand, tweeters defended the behavior of those who denounced the girl's outfit by saying that what the observers did was a denial of evil and enjoining good.
Most of those attacking the #dressgirl are women.
Arab societies, just as they suffer from the patriarchal system, also suffer from the matriarchal system, i.e. women's domination and bullying of each other.
This is a complex problem that we see in Arab societies more than others.
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— Dr.
Najat AlSaeed (@Najat_AlSaeed) June 27, 2021
Undressing a girl by exposing her legs and other parts of her body, even a hair, is an evil that deserves to be condemned. He denounces the act with good words and rational advice.
— Adel Elsharnoby (@adel_elsharnoby) June 26, 2021
(Without it
was ٱlkaron before you Ulloa Bakیhࣲ forbid ٱlvesad in the
earth ,
only Qlیlࣰa who Angina them and what ٱtba And
Allah wronged the Otervoa and they were criminals)
[Hud 116]
girl dress # Fattah_alvestan
— Ibrahim Khalil (@Ebrahemkhalill) June 27, 2021
The Messenger of God, peace be upon him, said: There are two types of the people of Hell whom I have not seen.. Then he said: And women who are clothed, naked, leaning, tilting their heads like the humps of the slanting camel.. Then he said, “They will not enter Paradise and they will not find its fragrance.”
#Dress_girl.
— Muhammad Tariq | 🇪🇬🌟 (@2D4GNZ0hBN08TQ7) June 26, 2021
Imposition of the
veil, and the Promotion of
Virtue and Prevention of Vice Hajj but her conditions,
(do not make it a
heavy Valensah argument does not send a
mountain) # Vtah_alvestan
— Assem Muhammad (@Assem_elkamhy) June 26, 2021
Contrast and duality
The different official dealings with these issues blew up the denunciation of tweets, what they called "the duplicity of official dealings," and journalist Fathi Magdy wrote, "Despite the ugliness of the crime in the attack on the veiled student of Beni Suef University, who was insulted by the head of the history department at the Faculty of Arts by slapping her in the face and taking off her niqab." After leaving the examination committee, she did not receive 10% of the media attention that the Tanta University student, or what has become known as the “dress girl,” who accused two observers of bullying her dress, which became a “trend” on social media platforms, and the media’s talk. In Egypt, of course, the reason is known, and the goal is known, but everyone is dead, and there is no blame for those who treat themselves.”
On the other hand, tweets spread glorifying the university girl's dress, and encouraging girls to wear whatever they wanted.
So that you know what is the crisis of my generation and the ones who are left out of it, may God give them health and longevity.
We lived and saw a student being bullied in a chic and simple dress too.
May God have mercy on the days of the university stadium when it was all a micro pocket, and none of us looked around for what we were wearing.
We talk to each other, laugh and quarrel with each other, but we look down to no and a thousand no.
— Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (@ibmeguid) June 26, 2021
At the Opera we don’t wear jeans - In Fine Dining we don’t wear Crocs - In the mosque / church / holy places we don’t wear open clothes - In bars we don’t wear an abaya - And in club/hotel swimming pools we don’t wear what is not allowed 🤷♀️ Simple is it
— Sherry (@TrueXela) June 26, 2021
In turn, the writer Ibrahim Abdel Majid said that what is happening on the scene with regard to the dress of women and girls indicates the suffering of a generation that lived in women wearing short skirts, as the university stands were filled with them without anyone worrying about what they were wearing.
In two cases, the opposite of each other completely, and the public opinion is occupied now..one of them is #Habiba_Tariq Al. The observers bullied and slacked on her because she was going to be tested with a dress below the knee, and the second one, #Dina_Hisham Al Mardyoush, put it down wearing a burkini because it is too respectable 🌚
Welcome to the quagmire of double standards 🤝
— Mariam Naël🧚🏻♀️ (@mariiam_nael) June 26, 2021
Concentration in women's dress is evidence of the poor quality of society.
— Amr Salama (@amrmsalama) June 26, 2021
As for parliamentarian Farid Al-Bayadi, he stressed that every girl has the right to wear the appropriate dress according to the regulations of the place, provided that his administration determines what is appropriate and not others.
Tweeters considered that attention to women's dress issues at the expense of other urgent and vital issues reveals a societal imbalance, and director Amr Salama said that "the focus in women's dress is evidence of the poorness of society."
Put the problem of the burkini in front of the problem of the Tanta dress and fill out the immigration papers right now 🏃🏻 ♀️🏃🏻 ♀️
— Ola Osman (@OlaOsman) June 26, 2021
The command of the pants and the prohibition of the dress
— aisha moubarez (@aishamoubarez1) June 26, 2021
I love dresses very much, whether you wear them or someone else wears them. Of course, if the model is suitable for the body, the dresses are feminine and elegant. Wear dresses, girls, and show them short and long as you like. The important thing is a dress 👗 #Dress
— hanan shouman (@hananshouman) June 26, 2021
Summary of the Burkini story in Egypt pic.twitter.com/B2QVtBcqbN
— Amr Bakly Amr Bakly (@ABakly) June 26, 2021
Every year and you are good and a thousand health and good.. The season of the burkini and pissin quarrelpic pic.twitter.com/xzMCRjXYan
— Menzi 👑 (@Mennzie) June 26, 2021