Khaberni - Festival singer Hassan Shakoush has aroused widespread anger on social media platforms after his comment on the "bus girl" incident, blaming the victim for what happened, while describing the young man as "very respectable".
In a live broadcast on his "TikTok" account last Wednesday, he said, "The one who put 20 things in her mouth and tells you the young man harassed me, it's evident what she wants, and if she were a decent girl, she wouldn't put those things at her mouth, but the young man looks very respectable."
On the other hand, the singer's statements provoked widespread anger on the platforms. Journalist Yasmin El-Khatib launched a fierce attack on Shakoush after his statements about the "bus girl" incident, considering it indirect incitement to harassment, and she fired at everyone who justifies the crime by appearance or looks, stressing that the real problem is in the mindset, not the clothes.
Yasmin El-Khatib wrote in a post on her official Facebook page: "If a girl wears a ring on her lips, it means by society's standards that she is dissolute and lying, so you must understand that singing in cabarets behind dancers - by the same societal standards - is dissolute, your opinion is not important at all... you have neither talent nor chivalry."
In another post, El-Khatib continued her attack, saying: "It's not surprising that bullies defend each other."
Art critic Magda Khairallah also commented on the festival singer's statements, writing on her personal Facebook account: "One of the miseries of the world that Hassan Shakoush gives his opinion on the harassment incident on the bus and attacks the girl!! Better not you, Shakoush."
Video caused widespread anger
This came after a video of an Egyptian young woman who documented "her experience of harassment" by a young man on one of the buses became the talk of Egyptians on social media on Monday.
The young woman appeared in the widely circulated video attacking a young man inside the bus after he "followed her and harassed her," according to her.
While a number of men sat watching without offering to defend her, which provoked the ire of many Egyptians. Adding insult to injury was the young man’s response to her anger with a laugh, hinting at her clothes.
Hours after the spread of the video, which caused fierce anger, Egyptian security forces managed to arrest the suspect for harassing a girl inside one of the buses in the Mokattam area in Cairo Governorate.
