There's more social media storming coming out of the Gulf this week over a leaked video documenting the brutal beating of a woman in the Kuwaiti city of Mubarakiya. It's a shaky, short video that's shot discretely from the sidelines, so it's a little hard at first to understand what's on. But not long into the footage you see an older man attacking a fully veiled woman on the street. The content was so violence that the original video was removed from YouTube just a day after being released.
In it, you see an older man run continuously at a woman in the middle of a crowded marketplace, lunging at her and accussing her of stealing money from him. At one point, he takes off his agal (the black rope used to secure men's head dresses) and begins beating her with it.
This is hardly the first time something like this has come out of the Gulf. Just last month another videoaged the Twittersphere with footage of two Saudi women surrounded by a swarm of taunting men. And just like back then, the social media storm that followed this week's Kuwait footage was filled with just about everything you can think of as users responded under the hashtag
#رجل_يعتدي_علي_منقبه , Arabic for "man beats a woman in a niqab."
Check out some of the responses below -- from rage, to apathy, to downright terrible.
جبان لا يمت للرجولة بأي صلة مهما كانت اسبابه لا يحق له ضرب اي امرأة فما اكرمهن إلا كريم وما اهانهن إلا لئيم #رجل_يعتدي_على_منقبه
— Mariam (@Mariam88Sultan) August 12, 2015Translation: He is a coward and he lacks manhood. No matter what reason he has he is not allowed to do this. Only an evil man will do this to a woman.
#رجل_يعتدي_علي_منقبه لايحق لك ضرب اي شخص بهذا العنف،هناك جهات مختصة في المقطع اكثر من مرة تتراجع المرأة ثم يذهب لضربها
— د.سلمان مفكر سعودي™ (@AHaoi) August 12, 2015Translation: No one has the right to beat up anybody else. In the video the woman backed up several times but he continues attacking her.
#رجل_يعتدي_علي_منقبه اسوء من الحدث بأكمله من فتح كامرة هاتفة لـ يصور خيبته .. سود الله وجه من تفرج وصور دون أن يقوم بدوره كـ رجل
— فيصل المطيري (@FaisalM66) August 12, 2015Translation: What is worse than the incident itself is the man who filmed this video. He should have beaten up that man instead of standing and filming.
اكيد غلطانه ولكن عيب التعدي على امراه مهما كان خطاها✋ لو عندنا كان الهاشتاق منقبه تضرب متحرش كلن على همه سرا #رجل_يعتدي_علي_منقبه
— عاطف المسمار (@Atef_almsmar) August 12, 2015Translation: It’s her mistake, she has done something wrong, however I am against the way the man dealt with the situation
#رجل_يعتدي_على_منقبه من الضعف ان تضرب احد مقيد! فوق انها مقيدة بعباية ونقابة وبالقوة تتحرك يجي الكلب يضارب، الله يشل يده
— بروف نَـيّرة (@prof_nairah) August 11, 2015Translation: As if it is not enough to force all women to wear the black cover (abaya). We have to make it worse by beating them up.
#رجل_يعتدي_على_منقبه اذا كانت زوجته فأكيد يعتبرها احد أملاكه يتصرف بها كما يشاء لان المرأة كالعبد المملوك لزوجها كما قال ابن تيمية.
— Bandr al-mogtrb (@1mogtrb) August 11, 2015Translation: As Ibin Tiamya said, the woman is owned by her husband so he as the right to beat her up.
#رجل_يعتدي_علي_منقبه ليس كل منقبة تعمل بشروط النقاب والطهر والصفاء وهذا بلاشك أنني لم أتمعن بالموضوع بعد
— Fawaz Fares (@fa2040) August 11, 2015Translation: Wearing the Niqab (face cover) does not mean that she is innocent, however I did not search the case yet.
أهم شي الذكر الثاني خايف على المبخره سحقا لمن على شاكلتهم #رجل_يعتدي_على_منقبه
— mashael salem (@meeshon33) August 11, 2015Translation: What actually killed me was the shop owner, he is afraid of getting his stuff broken so he removed it without paying any attention to the woman.
المقطع اللي يضرب المرأه اللي بالكويت اتوقع انها سارقته ويقول لها طلعي الفلوس #الكويت #رجل_يعتدي_على_منقبه pic.twitter.com/Aads1BXMA7
— برهوم 502 (@heem047) August 12, 2015Translation: He did that because she stole money from him, we can hear him in the video saying “give me back my money”
