Comments on: Media Whores: The Egyptian Media’s Defamatory Coverage of the Murders of Heba & Nadine

By: Someone

Someone — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:56:48 +0000

Fatemah, “No,” sleeping out of her husbands house doesn’t justify what happened to her.

I have friends who knew both victims. But if all of us just took a step back and realized that if good ‘ol fashion behavior, Christian & Islamic principles, which are traditionally prevalent in our society — but somehow ignored — had been applied. Things like this wouldn’t have ever happened in the first place. Namely because, in moderately strict Christian & Muslim families, a related man must always be around unprotected women precisely for such reasons.

Even the defamation from the media outlets is liable & contrary to such principles of faith. What has happened to Egypt? At the funeral which was a Muslim procession, wasn’t Quran being recited? The very verses which forbid women to sleep alone unaccompanied outside of their houses.

But I guess we only turn to God when it’s too late. Too busy trying to -be “iPhone-Cool” religiously following the TOP 40, Starbucks, Social Guru’s to care about being labelled nerdy Christian or Muslims.

May they both just rest in peace. After all, God is love & forgiveness!

PEACE!

By: Fatemeh

Fatemeh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:30:10 +0000

@ Ahmed: what are you saying? Why is it a problem that a woman sleeps at her best friends’ house if they are both women? Does that mean she somehow deserved what happened to her?

By: Ahmed Amin

Ahmed Amin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:38:52 +0000

i am totally horified of the murder of the girls,but what struck me was why would a married woman sleep somewhere else,rather than her husbands house.i am not happy that they were so brutaly murdered,but i am not happy as-well that a married woman could sleep in somebody elses house.

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[...] svom izlaganju o ovom užasnom zločinu, Ethar El Katatney govori sledeće o medijima: Smrt dve devojke od 23 godine, obe srednjoškolke, je nešto tragično. [...]

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Cairo, Egypt: Brutal Murders Spark Media Backlash - Gossip Rocks Forum — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:29:37 +0000

[...] Nadine Khaled, Nadine and Heba together, and Heba El-Akkad with her husband. Under the title Media Whores: The Egyptian Media’s Defamatory Coverage of the Murders of Heba & Nadine, the website Muslimahwatch summed up the press coverage of the murders. "They said that [...]

By: SaudiAmber

SaudiAmber — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:10:07 +0000

Thank you so much for this post; it really upset me, but it says so much about the media, and how many believe that the senseless and brutal murder of a woman is inevitable or can somehow ‘justified’ by perceived cultural or sexual transgressions. Disgusting.

By: Julz

Julz — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:12:12 +0000

This guy is sick!!! I can`t believe he is sooooo damn calm!
There is no way in hell he is a normal being.. definetly ABNORMAL..
It`s like he never did anything.. explaining and reenacting the murder like he is proud of it..
And to the press… Leave the girls alone.. let them rest in peace!

God bless you both Heba and Nadine, our prayers are with you both.

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By: Umm Layth

Umm Layth — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:08:28 +0000

This is so sad, subhana’Allah. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un. : ( Why can’t we even show respect to the dead anymore?

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Global Voices Online » Egypt: Dirty Sexy Secrets — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:46:43 +0000

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By: Ethar

Ethar — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:37:07 +0000

@ Tom: Here’s hoping! But since the murders aren’t really connected to anyone “important,” (even if I stretch, I don’t think the singer can really be called ‘important’) I doubt there’ll be enough fuss to really punish the newspapers responsible for the libel.

@ Fatemeh: I agree, 110%

@ Mandi: *cough* I’m an Egyptian journalist *cough* But I understand why it is few people think Egyptian journalists write as they please. For the most part, unless you’re talking about a touchy political/ economic issue, there isn’t really any supervision over what the press writes. Which is ironic considering there is censorship and that we can get clapped behind bars according to the whims of you-know-whos.