CBS Reporter sexually assaulted during Egypt celebration

[paulney]

In this case, I think he has a point. You put your hand into a fire, you may get burnt. Attractive white women going into a mob unprotected anywhere in the 2nd or 3rd world is asking for trouble.

I'm not saying she deserved it. I'm saying she's a moron for not seeing and preventing a preventable bad event.

She had security, just not adequate enough security. Of course, the articles mention she's a daredevil pushing the envelope. Who knows what happened there - might have provoked the mob somehow, and security was overrun.

 

[bfdd]

Atreus is kind of right here. There was TONS of risk in her going over there. She knew her life was at risk. It is absolutely terrible this happened and nothing justifies it, but it was a risk she took going over there to report the news.

 

[nCred]

That is known as a "statistic". As I asked for above, is there any evidence to support this very widely held claim? I'm not denying it, I'm investigating it. I couldn't find any support for it. Evidentiary support is what differentiates facts from regurgitated pablum.

Yes, these are statistics from a report by "the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention", but I don't think it's available in english.

Here they explain the high rate of sexual assault in Sweden (in english)
link

And here's the report about crime among immigrants (in swedish)
link

 

[jonks]

Yes, these are statistics from a report by "the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention", but I don't think it's available in english.

Here they explain the high rate of rate in Sweden (in english)
link

And here's the report about crime among immigrants (in swedish)
link

Thanks for responding, will check these out later, gotta run.

 

[Zedtom]

Are you saying that US blacks are just as likely to gang-rape a reporter during a protest as the Egyptians were during a celebration?

I don't know if you are complaining about blacks, Egyptians or women? Are you one of the three or are you just trying to speak for them?

 

[mjrpes3]

Interesting just how misogynist the Muslim religion is...

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/1095.htm

Since it emphasizes the importance of Muslims conquering all non-Muslims, Islam bestows some intriguing sexual incentives. While it is a sin for a male to have sex with an unmarried woman, Allah makes an exemption for the Muslim male who rapes the women of the infidels that he kills. Muhammad did just that.

Putting aside the killing the husband thing... she's an infidel, so it's all good.

 

[JS80]

She got groped.

In Japan, rape is called "have sex"?

 

[SamurAchzar]

Good thing rape doesn't happen in the US.

Yes, usually in Tea Parties that protest against Obama. Their mob finds female journalists, beats them up and then rapes them over a sustained period. It happens nearly every other week.


Congratulations, you are now the resident douche apologist for Muslim barbarism. So many have walked in this path before you just to one day realize who, exactly, they were defending and consequently disappear.

 

[OCGuy]

I don't know if you are complaining about blacks, Egyptians or women? Are you one of the three or are you just trying to speak for them?

Huh? You are the one who said that it would be just as dangerious for a reporter to go to a protest featuring angry American blacks.

Would you like to clarify your original post?

 

[werepossum]

I was shocked that Katie Couric was down in the streets of Cairo last week. She looked uneasy and I thought that she was putting herself in danger. CBS whisked her out of there fast and she was back in New York the next day.

This Lara Logan may be a knowledgeable reporter, but pretty faces in a hostile setting can lead to mayhem. Would they send her into a protest of a white cop shooting a black man in Detroit?

Lara Logan is a very knowledgeable and very competent young woman. She's extensively covered war zones and fighting, and is known as one of the best embeds a commander can have, good with troops and commanders alike, fair and not out to build her career by tearing down an officer or three. She's also absolutely fearless. There is absolutely no comparison whatsoever between her and Couric. Logan is quite possibly the only CBS journalist for whom I have any use at all. (There may be others that escape me at the moment.)

The article also mentioned a sustained beating, so hopefully she's recovering from a beating and groping rather than a gang rape. My sympathies and best wishes for a speedy recovery to her either way, and kudos to the Egyptian soldiers who went in and recovered her.

EDIT: Oops, kudos to the Egyptian soldiers and especially to the civilian Egyptian women who went in and recovered her. One of those groups risked considerably more than the other.

 

[Imp]

All my points have been covered. White blond in a foreign, non-European country. You may just stand out... Even Anderson Cooper hauled ass a week before that.

 

[dca221]

Interesting just how misogynist the Muslim religion is...

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/1095.htm



Putting aside the killing the husband thing... she's an infidel, so it's all good.

The paragraph you have in there is at best completely made up, and at worst just an outright lie to inflame people who don't know any better. If you will link the bullshit and stand by those statements, please show where in the Kuran Allah allows muslim men to rape the women of the infidels he kills

 

[Infohawk]

I was getting so sick of all these people on television acting like Egypt was living up to his proud and civilized heritage. It's a primitive culture over there. A pro-democracy celebration would not have turned into a raping in anywhere else but a Muslim country. Hopefully people around the world hear about this so that everyone can know that the Muslim world is still in the iron age.

 

[dca221]

I was getting so sick of all these people on television acting like Egypt was living up to his proud and civilized heritage. It's a primitive culture over there. A pro-democracy celebration would not have turned into a raping in anywhere else but a Muslim country. Hopefully people around the world hear about this so that everyone can know that the Muslim world is still in the iron age.

Did you gain this vast wisdom of yours by watching TV off your couch? Does this wisdom come with ability to make vast generalizations remotely based on facts, or did you have to hone that ability over time?

 

[JS80]

Did you gain this vast wisdom of yours by watching TV off your couch? Does this wisdom come with ability to make vast generalizations remotely based on facts, or did you have to hone that ability over time?

lol so many meaningless words.

 

[Narmer]

In Japan, rape is called "have sex"?

WTF does Japan have to do with this?

 

[disappoint]

"We were not attacked by crazy people in Tahrir Square," Logan told Esquire's The Politics Blog about the February 3 incident. "We were detained by the Egyptian army. Arrested, detained and interrogated. Blindfolded, handcuffed, taken at gunpoint, our driver beaten. It's the regime that arrested us. They arrested (our producer) just outside of his hotel, and they took him off the road at gunpoint, threw him against the wall, handcuffed him, blindfolded him. Took him into custody like that."
Logan spoke with the magazine Thursday night as she boarded a plane for her return to Egypt, saying that her interrogators accused her and her crew of being "Israeli agents," kept them in "stress positions" throughout the night and only reluctantly gave her medical treatment for an illness.
"I was violently, violently ill," she said. "I'd been ill for a few days -- I hadn't mentioned it to anyone at CBS."
At first, she said, they ignored her condition "until I vomited so much that they did have a medic see me at this secret facility -- they wouldn't tell us where we were. Then I was begging for an IV, and at first they wouldn't. I vomited up everything that the medic gave me. I vomited all over the interrogation cell. I vomited all over this office they put me in after that, and so eventually they put me on an IV."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/15/egypt.logan.assault/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

 

[Sephire]

Something do not compute.

 

[JSt0rm]

Attractive white women going into a mob unprotected anywhere in the 2nd or 3rd world is asking for trouble.

I'm not saying she deserved it. I'm saying she's a moron for not seeing and preventing a preventable bad event.

She was separated from her security detail. They fucked up major and are probably fired. I would assume they will never be hired again and the lawsuit will be fierce.

 

[mjrpes3]

The paragraph you have in there is at best completely made up, and at worst just an outright lie to inflame people who don't know any better. If you will link the bullshit and stand by those statements, please show where in the Kuran Allah allows muslim men to rape the women of the infidels he kills

ok...

http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Rape_in_Islam

Tho in this case I guess the people who raped Lara will be going to hell because

(1) She wasn't their captive
(2) They didn't wait one menstrual cycle

 

[Generator]

So basically a Rand Paul rally broke out in Egypt. Despite that, the revolution still happened and thats all that matters.

 

[Zedtom]

Would you like to clarify your original post?

Would they send her into a protest of a white cop shooting a black man in Detroit?

Strictly a hypothetical scenario, but well within the possibility of an angry mob. If there is a faux outrage about racism it is misplaced since sexual assault by a group is despicable no matter where it takes place. I was questioning the wisdom of her superiors in allowing her to go into the street without adequate protection.

 

[Infohawk]

Did you gain this vast wisdom of yours by watching TV off your couch? Does this wisdom come with ability to make vast generalizations remotely based on facts, or did you have to hone that ability over time?

I'm just going to assume all you have is ad hominem. Not compelling.

 

[Doppel]

Some fucked up people posting here.

You got that right.

Interesting just how misogynist the Muslim religion is...

Must be that half the people in this thread are Muslims then.

 

[DesiPower]

Ohhhh....you are one of those "She was asking for it because she was scantily clad" guys.

Some real winners here....

nothing to do with that, I have same thing to say about those two Fox news morons. Have you ever been to a 3rd world country? do you know how they think? Its a disaster waiting to happen.