Woman beaten on Jerusalem bus-didn't move to the back

[katty]

more: http://haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801449&contrassID=19



Woman beaten on Jerusalem bus for refusing to move to rear seat

By Daphna Berman

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."

[Ezlivin]

1. Patriarchal religions, societies and cultures just plainly suck

Damn, I'd hate to be a woman in most countries in this world.

One of these days they'll wise up, rise up and change things.

[Donnachaidh]

2. And they go back to reading their torah pleased with beating a woman.

That's such a crowd full of "menschs". :puke:

[aquart]

3. Patriarchal religion is a hazard to female health.

But any fundamentalism is fundamentally about controlling women.

So fuck 'em all.

[katty]

4. yes, indeed!

[madrchsod]

5. yup! keep your religion out of my face