“Enough is Enough” is the call by women throughout the country in the ugly face of femicide that has shaken the country and highlighted by President Ramaphosa. Every 13 minutes a woman is raped and murdered in South Africa, with more than 23,000 murders a year. But this is only South Africa. What about the women of the Arab world that our media chooses to ignore?
A woman’s status in most of the Arab world warrants less consideration than a goat. The despicable practice of over 90 million little girl pressed into forced marriages, having to endure a life of hell has seldom found its way in the general media, nor has genital mutilation of millions of women so prevalent in the Arab world or the amputation of limbs for theft or the stoning of women to death for being the victims of rape been highlighted. Honor killing accepted as a norm in Arab society. A woman in many parts of the Middle East is simply a commodity that can be bought or sold at her father or husband pleasure.
Why is our media so silent when what goes down in the Arab World is common knowledge but turn their wrath on the only democracy in the Middle East where women’s rights equal those of men and enjoy absolutely equality in the eyes of the law. Could it be that, that democracy is the only Jewish State on earth?
Ethnic cleansing of minority religious groups such as the Christians, Yazidis, Bahais and of course Jews is prolific in many Arab states. The ongoing slaughter of the civilian population in both Syria and Yemen where hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered including women and children seem to have escaped the pens of the biased media in South Africa
Apartheid practices are alive and well in most of these countries where Jews have been driven out, Christians and Bahais discriminated against, Yazidis and Rohingyas beaten and killed – interestingly such reports seldom find their way into the media.
Media Team Israel 