In which country did the following incident take place?
A woman who reported a vicious attack by an ad-hoc "modesty patrol" on a [public city bus] says she was traveling to pray at [a holy site] early on November 24 when a group of [religious] men attacked her for refusing to move to the back. [The 50-year-old woman] 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...Throughout the encounter, [the woman] says the bus driver "did nothing." The other passengers, she says, blamed her for not moving to the back of the bus.
So what did you guess? Pakistan? Saudi Arabia? Try Israel. (You knew it was a trick question, right?)
"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."
But of course, religious rules against contact with women are about "respect", not sexism. So really this incident only raises one question: how did they manage to beat her up without touching her?
[Hat tip: Craig via Gina]
