CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault

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Sanity -> CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 11:48:36 AM)
Many people still do not understand how much different things are in an observant Islamic society quote: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault [image]http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/04/29/world/jp-29logan/jp-29logan-articleLarge.jpg[/image] Lara Logan thought she was going to die in Tahrir Square when she was sexually assaulted by a mob on the night that Hosni Mubarak’s government fell in Cairo. ... ...She was ripped away from her producer and bodyguard by a group of men who tore at her clothes and groped and beat her body. “For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands,” Ms. Logan said in an interview with The New York Times. She estimated that the attack involved 200 to 300 men. ... “There was a moment that everything went wrong,” she recalled. As the cameraman, Richard Butler, was swapping out a battery, Egyptian colleagues who were accompanying the camera crew heard men nearby talking about wanting to take Ms. Logan’s pants off. She said: “Our local people with us said, ‘We’ve gotta get out of here.’ That was literally the moment the mob set on me.” ... They estimated that they were separated from her for about 25 minutes. “My clothes were torn to pieces,” Ms. Logan said. She declined to go into more detail about the assault but said: “What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.” ... Before the assault, Ms. Logan said, she did not know about the levels of harassment and abuse that women in Egypt and other countries regularly experienced. “I would have paid more attention to it if I had had any sense of it,” she said. “When women are harassed and subjected to this in society, they’re denied an equal place in that society. Public spaces don’t belong to them. Men control it. It reaffirms the oppressive role of men in the society.” Full article here http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/business/media/29logan.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2

mnottertail -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 12:03:22 PM)
Not because they are Islamic, but because she is liberal media.

Marc2b -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 12:08:23 PM)
You're both wrong. It is because they are human. [>:]

flcouple2009 -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 12:19:20 PM)
Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR - ABC News 2 Fla. teens arrested for gang rape - USATODAY.com 11-Year-Old Girl Gang Raped in California Park Bathroom - FoxNews.com Rape of Iraqi Women by US Forces as Weapon of War: Photos and Data ... You want to continue with your line of reasoning? Men have used rape to control, demean or bring down women throughout history. Men of every group, ethnicity, religion, etc have been guilty.

hlen5 -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 12:22:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: flcouple2009 ................You want to continue with your line of reasoning? Men have used rape to control, demean or bring down women throughout history. Men of every group, ethnicity, religion, etc has been guilty. Agreed. The book "Against Our Will" written over 30 years ago said the same.

Marc2b -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 12:55:16 PM)
quote: Men of every group, ethnicity, religion, etc have been guilty. Yeah... that's kind of my point. [8\|] The common factor is not a particular race, religion or creed on the part of either the attackers or the victim but human nature. What did you think I was saying? ETA: or did you goof and mean to respond to Sanity?

popeye1250 -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 1:00:08 PM)
They're fucking animals.

flcouple2009 -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 1:00:23 PM)
Cause switching windows the reply went to you instead of the OP. Why wouldn't you think that was on topic to the OP?

Marc2b -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 1:03:16 PM)
quote: They're fucking animals. Yes. Human Beings are animals.

Marc2b -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 1:09:13 PM)
quote: Why wouldn't you think that was on topic to the OP? Because experience on these boards has taught me that people's ideologies can make them see the exact opposite in one's words. I once made a joke about Al Franken (the left wing version of Rush Limbaugh as far as I'm concerned) and some ditsy broad (not posting anymore, thankfully) accused me of making racial slurs against President (then elect) Obama. When I called her on it, wanting to know exactly how she got from A to B, she accused me of being a stalker and threatened to report me to the Mods!

LaTigresse -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 1:18:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Marc2b You're both wrong. It is because they are human. [>:] Indeed.

flcouple2009 -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 2:08:21 PM)
Sorry about the confusion, that is what I get for posting while working, [:D]

Sanity -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 3:28:33 PM)
Find an example of 200 - 300 men brutally raping a woman in a public place and then we will have apples to apples. Ms. Logan herself relates that women are treated differently in that society, which is the entire point. I disagree with popeyes "theyre animals' comment, but their society is totally unlike ours. And while Ms. Logan was unaware of that prior to her horrific experience she is testifying to that fact now, in the article quoted above. quote: ORIGINAL: flcouple2009 Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR - ABC News 2 Fla. teens arrested for gang rape - USATODAY.com 11-Year-Old Girl Gang Raped in California Park Bathroom - FoxNews.com Rape of Iraqi Women by US Forces as Weapon of War: Photos and Data ... You want to continue with your line of reasoning? Men have used rape to control, demean or bring down women throughout history. Men of every group, ethnicity, religion, etc have been guilty.

kdsub -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 3:32:11 PM)
Sanity I will take the heat to agree with you. Many Islamic societies are barbaric when it comes to the rights of women. Butch

Lucylastic -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 3:38:26 PM)
why ? when there are single men white men in jail for raping women by stabbing them with bottles afterwards??? , if a group that size were so viciously raping her , she would have been dead. In no way am I condoning what happened to her, in any way shape or form, and Im very very happy she is alive and relatively unhurt. To separate the crimes you are playing with a bag of bees. 200 rampaging soccer fans or a drunk asshole group at a bar, women die after less a tenth of that number "attacking" ...she was luckier than those, its violence and men, not religion.

Politesub53 -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 3:51:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Find an example of 200 - 300 men brutally raping a woman in a public place and then we will have apples to apples. I feel sorry for her ordeal but 200-300 men raping her seems like a teeny exageration to me.

Sanity -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 4:03:17 PM)
Neither CBS nor the New York Times are known for their anti Islamic bias, and Ms. Logan wasnt the only person involved. Further, these are all veteran reporters... In my opinion you and your friends are in denial because it runs counter to your gross misconceptions about Islam, misconceptions including but not limited to how badly women are treated in many Islamic societies.

Lucylastic -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 4:24:47 PM)
so I suppose western society is wonderful when 1 woman is raped every 60 seconds in the US? yeah thats some respect for women right there to point out that Islam is bad or worse denigrates all the women harmed by rape anywhere and everywhere in every fashion But thats a lefty bias huh

Politesub53 -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 4:32:40 PM)
Lucy it is his gross misconceptions about 1.5 billion people that get me. I also take issue with her comment that she was unaware about Muslim men before she went to Egypt. This is a women who spent many years (At least nine) reporting from places like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sanity -> RE: CBS Reporter Recounts a ‘Merciless’ Assault (4/29/2011 4:38:19 PM)
That it was acceptable to do that by that many men is the issue, its that women are culturally held in such low regard. It was done to her as punishment, you seem to be missing that.

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