Days after an Egyptian MP was attacked over his call for virginity tests to allow women’s admittance to university, another lawmaker has appeared in defense of the initiative. MP Yousry Al Moghazy, who hails from Daqahliya, told Parlmany he does not understand the uproar around MP Elhamy Agina, saying that he supports the virginity test “initiative.” “In order to safeguard the country and our children and prevent prostitution, there has to be [virginity] tests. Girls need to know they can be subjected to the test any day,” Al Moghazy asserted. Attacking the way women dress on campuses, Al Moghazy said that they look like “belly dancers, not students.” The MP said he does not want to limit the tests to university students, but instead wants to make them standard practice in technical schools as well. “For sure if a girl is subjected to a [virginity] test, she would avoid any wrongdoing because she would know the test will embarrass her in front of her parents,” Al Moghazy believes. He stated that virginity tests are conducted in other countries and that a law should be drafted to legalize them in Egypt. Despite…
Egyptian MP Supports Call for Virginity Tests, Saying Women Students Dress ‘Like Belly Dancers’
October 3, 2016
