It was in response to a viral Facebook post by a Pakistani woman who shared her own experience of being sexually assaulted at hajj. In early February, Eltahawy, an Egyptian-American activist and journalist and the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, shared this story on Twitter. "Who wants to talk about sexual assault at a holy place? No one would believe it," she says, recalling the encounter, which took place in 1982. Instead of telling the authorities, the young Eltahawy simply burst into tears. But that man turned the trip into a nightmare. The magnificence of the Great Mosque had taken her breath away. When she was 15, she journeyed there with her family. The Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, called hajj, was supposed to be the holiest moment of Mona Eltahawy's life. Someone - a man - had grabbed onto her butt and would not let go. Muslims circle the Kaaba, located in the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as part of their Islamic pilgrimage.ĭressed in a hijab and covered from head to toe, she felt something.
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