Perilaku seksual yang rendah ini ingin dijadikan acuan dunia oleh sekelompok orang. Ya sedih kan ...
--- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, "Kartono Mohamad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ternyata orang-orang Timur Tengah mempunyai ciri kelakuan yang sama. > merenadhakn perempuan karena agaknya syahwatnya mudah terpicy kalau melihat > perempuan di dekatnya. Tidak yahudi, tidak Arab, sama saja. > KM > > -------Original Message---- > > > WOMAN BEATEN IN JERUSALEM BUS FOR REFUSING TO MOVE TO REAR SEAT > By Daphna Berman > Haaretz (Israeli newspaper) Dec. 17, 2006 > > A woman who reported a vicious attack by an ad-hoc "modesty patrol" on a > Jerusalem bus last month is now lining up support for her case and may > be included in a petition to the High Court of Justice over the legality > of sex-segregated buses. > > Miriam Shear says she was traveling to pray at the Western Wall in > Jerusalem's Old City early on November 24 when a group of ultra-Orthodox > (Haredi) men attacked her for refusing to move to the back of the Egged > No. 2 bus. She is now in touch with several legal advocacy and women's > organizations, and at the same time, waiting for the police to apprehend > her attackers. > > In her first interview since the incident, Shear says that on the bus > three weeks ago, she was slapped, kicked, punched and pushed by a group > of men who demanded that she sit in the back of the bus with the other > women. The bus driver, in response to a media inquiry, denied that > violence was used against her, but Shear's account has been > substantiated by an unrelated eyewitness on the bus who confirmed that > she sustained an unprovoked "severe beating." > > Shear, an American-Israeli woman who currently lives in Canada, says > that on a recent five-week vacation to Israel, she rode the bus daily to > the Old City to pray at sunrise. Though not defined by Egged as a > sex-segregated "mehadrin" bus, women usually sit in the back, while men > sit in the front, as a matter of custom. > > "Every two or three days, someone would tell me to sit in the back, > sometimes politely and sometimes not," she recalled this week in a > telephone interview. "I was always polite and said 'No. This is not a > synagogue. I am not going to sit in the back.'" > > But Shear, a 50-year-old religious woman, says that on the morning of > the 24th, a man got onto the bus and demanded her seat - even though > there were a number of other seats available in the front of the bus. > > "I said, I'm not moving and he said, 'I'm not asking you, I'm telling > you.' Then he spat in my face and at that point, I was in high > adrenaline mode and called him a son-of-a-bitch, which I am not proud > of. Then I spat back. At that point, he pushed me down and people on the > bus were screaming that I was crazy. Four men surrounded me and slapped > my face, punched me in the chest, pulled at my clothes, beat me, kicked > me. My snood [hair covering] came off. I was fighting back and kicked > one of the men in his privates. I will never forget the look on his > face." > > Shear says that when she bent down in the aisle to retrieve her hair > covering, "one of the men kicked me in the face. Thank God he missed my > eye. I got up and punched him. I said, 'I want my hair covering back' > but he wouldn't give it to me, so I took his black hat and threw it in > the aisle." > > 'Stupid American' > > Throughout the encounter, Shear says the bus driver "did nothing." The > other passengers, she says, blamed her for not moving to the back of the > bus and called her a "stupid American with no sechel [common sense.] > People blamed me for not knowing my place and not going to the back of > the bus where I belong." > > According to Yehoshua Meyer, the eyewitness to the incident, Shear's > account is entirely accurate. "I saw everything," he said. "Someone got > on the bus and demanded that she go to the back, but she didn't agree. > She was badly beaten and her whole body sustained hits and kicks. She > tried to fight back and no one would help her. I tried to help, but > someone was stopping me from getting up. My phone's battery was dead, so > I couldn't call the police. I yelled for the bus driver to stop. He > stopped once, but he didn't do anything. When we finally got to the > Kotel [Western Wall], she was beaten badly and I helped her go to the > police." > > Shear says that when she first started riding the No. 2 line, she did > not even know that it was sometimes sex-segregated. She also says that > sitting in the front is simply more comfortable. "I'm a 50-year-old > woman and I don't like to sit in the back. I'm dressed appropriately and > I was on a public bus." > > "It is very dangerous for a group of people to take control over a > public entity and enforce their will without going through due process," > she said. "Even if they [Haredim who want a segregated bus] are a > majority - and I don't think they are - they have options available. > They can petition Egged or hire their own private line. But as long as > it's a public bus, I don't care if there are 500 people telling me where > to sit. I can sit wherever I want and so can anyone else." > > Meyer says that throughout the incident, the other passengers blamed > Shear for not sitting in the back. "They'll probably claim that she > attacked them first, but that's totally untrue. She was abused terribly, > and I've never seen anything like it." > > Word of Shear's story traveled quickly after she forwarded an e-mail > detailing her experience. She has been contacted by a number of groups, > including Shatil, the New Israel Fund's Empowerment and Training Center > for Social Change; Kolech, a religious women's forum; the Israel > Religious Action Center (IRAC), the legal advocacy arm of the local > Reform movement; and the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA). > > In the coming month, IRAC will be submitting a petition to the High > Court of Justice against the Transportation Ministry over the issue of > segregated Egged buses. IRAC attorney Orly Erez-Likhovski is in touch > with Shear and is considering including her in the petition. > > Although the No. 2 Jerusalem bus where the incident occurred is not > actually defined as a mehadrin line, Erez-Likhovski says that Shear's > story is further proof that the issue requires legal clarification. > About 30 Egged buses are designated as mehadrin, mostly on inter-city > lines, but they are not marked to indicate this. "There's no way to > identify a mehadrin bus, which in itself is a problem," she said. > > "Theoretically, a person can sit wherever they want, even on a mehadrin > line, but we're seeing that people are enforcing [the gender > segregation] even on non-mehadrin lines and that's the part of the > danger," she said. > > On a mehadrin bus, women enter and exit through the rear door, and the > seats from the rear door back are generally considered the "women's > section." A child is usually sent forward to pay the driver. > > The official responses > > In a response from Egged, the bus driver denied that Shear was > physically attacked in any way. > > "In a thorough inquiry that we conducted, we found that the bus driver > does not confirm that any violence was used against the complainant," > Egged spokesman Ron Ratner wrote. > > "According to the driver, once he saw that there was a crowd gathering > around her, he stopped the bus and went to check what was going on. He > clarified to the passengers that the bus was not a mehadrin line and > that all passengers on the line are permitted to sit wherever they want > on the bus. After making sure that the passengers returned to their > seats, he continued driving." > > The Egged response also noted that their drivers "are not able and are > not authorized to supervise the behavior of the passengers in all > situations." > > Ministry of Transportation spokesperson Avner Ovadia said in response > that the mehadrin lines are "the result of agreements reached between > Egged and Haredi bodies" and are therefore unconnected to the ministry. > > A spokesperson for the Jerusalem police said the case is still under > investigation. > > > > > > > > . > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
