by Jack Lee
Lara Logan, veteran reporter at CBS news was attempting to cover the celebration in Cairo’s Tahir Square after Mubarak’s departure.
Instead of of covering the heartwarming story of an oppressed people rising up to pursue democracy and freedom, she got another kind of story. This story was about the depth of inhumanity, hate and savagery that is all too rampant in the sand countries. She was viciously gang raped when a group, estimated to be several hundred, pulled her into their midst and cut her off from her security team.
It took over a half hour before a group of women and police could intervene and rescue her from this crowd that shouted “Jew, Jew, Jew!” as she was raped. In their world rape is the ultimate humiliation and they were taking out their ignorant hate for Jews on an innocent American reporter.
Her CBS employer tried to sanitized this story by calling it a sexual assault. What’s a sexual assault? It could be anything. . . like inappropriate touching – this was a gang rape! They should call it a gang rape and they should use their news pulpit to show how hundreds of these good Muslim men allowed it and some of them took part in it… all to the shouts of “Jew, Jew, Jew!”
Logan wasn’t Jewish, but she was an American. She has spent the last 5 days in a hospital recovering from her beating and rape. Now we know why Muslim women wear those head-to-toe black burka’s lest they accidentally incite their rape from one of the morons that make-up their repressive, male chauvinist culture. This incident has revealed the dark side of Egyptian/Muslim culture and turned what should have been a good story into one of pure revulsion.
Yeah…just like us.
You do know if you don’t have the rape kit, numb nuts is going to accuse you of making this up.
She was saved by the Egyption Army and female citizens.
I find it appalling how this is whitewashed, why?
This is disgusting.
I’m glad gang rape never occurs in the US.
I’m glad that the mobs who act out in the US know exactly what it is they’re doing, and who their real enemies are.
You do know that if you don’t have the video, some TEA partiers are going to say it didn’t happen.
Just kidding! That would require consistency on the part of the TEA party.
Harriet I think it was whitewashed because it doesn’t fit well in the liberal mold of how things ought to be. This woman’s own news agency put a lid on it for 5 days before the story broke. I think they played it down for fear of offending people in Middle East they are always sucking up too. CNN, CBS, ABC, they all like to engage in the Al Jazeera style of reporting and then delude themselves that they are buddy buddy with the hateful people like PLO, Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
Why would CBS even send a good looking young female into the barbarian’s camp to interview them? That smacks of pretty bad judgment. We know what these people think of women and we know how volatile they can be and how they hate westerners. What were they thinking? The rabid Muslims in Egypt and other sand nations don’t respect leftist journalists anymore than they would respect you or I. We’re all Jew loving infidels in their simple, bigoted little pea brains. Geez…if there was a good reason to hate a would be because of these people.
I wonder how she will respond to this attack? I am not just talking publicly. Will this maybe force her to examine her beliefs? Make her question the people she placed trust in? I do not know her work, I do not watch the network news so I am not going to make assumptions about who those people are or her beliefs. I just hope she is not talked into chalking this up to taking one for the team.
Quentin of course we are going to have gang rapes in the US done by, well, gangs, thugs, criminals…we have em and we know it. We’re far from perfect when it comes to having too many criminals capable of doing great evil. And yes, we know there women joggers who are going to get attacked and raped in parks late at night, or women walking in bad neighborhoods will be raped and stabbed, it happens. But, I’ll be damned if a women is going to get gang raped because she is in Times Square interviewing Americans about the news of the day. When that sort of thing can happen here, where hundreds of Americans entrap a lone female and then watch as their perverted pals gang rape her…on that day I’ll pull out my Glock go postal on em. And I would hope you would be right there with me blasting away too…because it’s over and humanity is done. But, we’re far from being that sort of culture…and THANK GOD WE’RE NOT LIKE THOSE SICK PERVS IN EGYPT!
We’ve got our bad people…but we’re far being that bad as a culture!!!!
You do know that if you don’t have the video, some TEA partiers are going to say it didn’t happen.
Just kidding! That would require consistency on the part of the TEA party.
Quentin, that is crass even for you.
A woman was raped doing her job, her own employer witewashes it, that initself is disgusting.
I think too many people with a microphone are afraid to say anything against a Muslim,People who write books against, print a cartoon, or question anything about them reap teh consequences.
Brigette Gabriel said she is fearful, as is the woman I heard interviewed the other day, she authord “Infadel” If I recall her name is Aya Ali
There is no moral equivelence, there just isn’t.
Some of us can think only in terms of social engineering, discrimination or moral equivalency. Anything you say, Jack, has to fit into one of those boxes. “We” are not allowed to speak out against injustice or depravity because “we” are just as guilty…everthing is the same…everyone is the same. Who knew Q would reveal himself to be the king of PC!
Brutality was also directed at males. One reporter and his camera man were abducted and beaten pretty badly after being threatened with decapitation before being released.
I would hope that this woman had the good sense to dress appropriately. We all know the reason her network sent her into that mess, however…men and women are just the same. We can’t discriminate against women on the job no matter how INSANE the circumstances might be.
Wasn’t it during the presidential election that we warned a weak president would embolden our enemies. We hope for the best in the ME but I fear that what is going on is more an indication of weakness on the part of dear leader and the weak condition of our nation. Our financial situation is exactly what our enemies wished on us. Stupidity works to facillitate.
I heard on tonights news she is going back in order to do her job,I told my husband she better wear a Burka, Going back, in my opinion is stupid, I would think CBS would re -think that one.
If jumping back into her work will help her, then great, but common sense says don’t send her back to an Arab country. There’s plenty of news elsewhere.
“But, I’ll be damned if a women is going to get gang raped because she is in Times Square interviewing Americans about the news of the day.”
This is a false comparison, Jack. It can only compare should there be hundreds of thousands of people in Times Square trying to bring down this government. The level of passion is way different.
People are people. In any large group, there will be bad actors–always! You cannot get around it.
You know how you’re always telling me that my examples of outrageous TEA partiers behaving badly is not indicative of ALL TEA Partiers? This is the same thing. If those clowns represent ALL muslims then THESE clowns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ik4f1dRbP8
represent ALL TEApartiers.
People are people.
Bad actors are bad actors.
Spreading cultural fear is WHY some clown was heading to a mosque with a carload of bombs! He only THOUGHT they were different.
There are no words to describe how horrible this is. A sexual assault of any kind is one of the most traumatizing things that can happen to a person. I can only hope that Ms. Logan can recover as much as is humanly possible in such situations.
A few questions for Jack:
Who is the “They” referenced in the title of this series?
Also, where is the source verifying your version of the events? The stories I have read have not included the specifics that this article did, such as the anti-semitic chants and the certainty that Logan was raped.
I would not be surprised if what happened was indeed a rape, and the media reported it as a sexual assault. This kind of terminology switching happens all the time in the media, and it has nothing to do with the fear of offending Islam, unless Julian Assange and Roman Polanski are Muslims and I just didn’t know it.
However, it’s also possible that Logan herself reported that what happened to her was a sexual assault. We just don’t know yet, so I’m not sure why you’re all pretending like we do.
Besides, while sexual assault is not as strong a term as “rape,” it would not be technically inaccurate–rape is a form of sexual assault.
Quentin, your desire to bring up your hatred of the Tea Party on every article no matter how irrelevant is usually just plain annoying, but here, it’s absolutely sick. There is no moral equivalency here, and you are using the sexual assault (possibly gang rape) of a woman in order to make a political point. Absolutely horrendous.
Same goes to you, Toby. You say that you wonder if this incident will make the woman examine her beliefs, and then admit that you know nothing about her and don’t want to assume? You just did, ass.
The extreme assumptions and leaps I’m seeing from everyone on this article, all in the desperate search to score political points, is absolutely sickening.
Jack–
“This woman’s own news agency put a lid on it for 5 days before the story broke. I think they played it down for fear of offending people in Middle East they are always sucking up too.”
But the fact is that you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. For all you know, Logan may have asked the network not to report what had happened to her yet, and they agreed out of respect and sensitivity toward her.
Also, your assertion that CBS “sucks up to” people in the Middle East is completely unsupported.
“CNN, CBS, ABC, they all like to engage in the Al Jazeera style of reporting and then delude themselves that they are buddy buddy with the hateful people like PLO, Hamas and other terrorist organizations.”
WHEN have any of these news organizations been “buddy buddy” with Hamas, or any other terrorist groups? Do you have any examples of this at all?
“Why would CBS even send a good looking young female into the barbarian’s camp to interview them?”
Uh, because she wanted to go and she was qualified? There were male journalists who were attacked as well, although not as badly. Should they have stayed home too?
Your implication that Logan shouldn’t have gone may be intended as chivalry, but it only enables the sexist attitudes that allow women to be objectified and sexually assaulted.
Harriet–“I think too many people with a microphone are afraid to say anything against a Muslim,”
Yes, which is why no one has ever heard of Osama bin Laden.
Tina–“Wasn’t it during the presidential election that we warned a weak president would embolden our enemies. We hope for the best in the ME but I fear that what is going on is more an indication of weakness on the part of dear leader and the weak condition of our nation.”
Yes, if only we could go back in time and elect John McCain, this incident would have never happened! In fact, the whole situation with Egypt would be better. Seriously, people, on what basis are you drawing these ridiculous conclusions? Do you have any justifications for the claims you’re making, other than pure partisanship?
Chris: “Seriously, people, on what basis are you drawing these ridiculous conclusions? Do you have any justifications for the claims you’re making, other than pure partisanship?”
History. Neville Chamberline’s leadership prior to WWII is one example.
Chris, how funny. Osama bin Ladin is a bit different when discussing talking about Muslims.
Solomon Rushdie, I believe is still in hiding, You do remember the outrage over a Cartoon about Mohammed?, How about the journalist in he UK that was murdered with his column pinned to him.
Those are just some examples Chris, Osama on the other hand, himself came public.
Tina, I guess you must think Bush was an incredibly weak president, since the biggest terror attack in U.S. history occurred under his watch.
Given that Obama’s policies toward the war and the Middle East are mostly extensions of Bush’s, I don’t see where you get off calling his foreign policies weak.
If you have actual evidence that the crisis in Egypt has anything to do with Obama’s leadership, I’m all ears. But right now you’re just giving me partisan-based speculation, without any actual insight.
Harriet, those are not examples of the media being afraid to offend Muslims. Salmon Rushdie did hide himself and even his true views for a while, but he is not in hiding anymore and he is even planning on writing a book about his experiences. The riots after the Danish cartoons were given a lot of media attention. Islamist violence is simply all over the news, you can’t avoid it.
Son, if political discourse sickens you, stay the Hell out of it!
Grow up!
Quentin, comparing the gang rape of an American journalist to the behavior of Tea Partiers is not political discourse, and it certainly is not grown-up behavior.
Chris, …net point, set point…excellent!
Chris: “I guess you must think Bush was an incredibly weak president, since the biggest terror attack in U.S. history occurred under his watch. ** I don’t see where you get off calling his foreign policies weak.”
Bush hadn’t been president for very long when 911 happened. The 911 attack was obviously in the planning stages under Clinton as well…probably going back to the first WTC bombing in 1993. Bush did have the distinction of being GHW Bush’s son which probably made the attack under his watch more meaningful for them.
I didn’t attack specific policies anyway. I was talking about Obamas public face. Obama has continued with many of Bush’s policies but he lacks the same clarity of purpose that Bush had when speaking in public. He can’t even call our enemies or the war what they are but instead plays word games. He created an award for purposely not engaging the enemy under certain circumstances. He has extended the hand of friendship to our enemies (Iran) while insulting those that have been our faithful allies(England and Israel). Many times his message is mixed or confusing as it was regarding the Egyptian protesters and Mubarak. He just appears very weak…an appeaser.
But in any case I was speaking about spans of history as well as leadership styles. History still tells us that what is happening in the ME right now may end badly and if it does, weak leadership will be recorded as part of that history.
Actually I expressing my worst fears and was hoping history doesn’t repeat this time.
Chris I googled “Islamists Intimidating the Press” There are several stories posted, I admit that I scanned some did not read all, but noticed they were from the USA, as well as other countries, one from here was dated back to 2006.
“A Failure of the Press”
By William J. Bennett and Alan M. Dershowitz
Radical Islamists have won a war of intimidation. They have cowed the major news media from showing the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
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Tina, many on the left blast GWB with regard to his handling of foreign affairs, you mentioned he was not in office very long before 9-11, very true, but he had a difficult situation with China before that. Remember the airplane they would not release, had to negotiate those people free.