I’m reading stories like this one and this one that are making me a little uneasy, following the beating and gang-rape suffered by CBS Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan in Cairo, Egypt one week ago. CBS executives, not wanting to ruin the delusional politically correct template of a democratic Jeffersonian-style revolution in Egypt, kept the savaging of their employee under wraps until they were forced to divulge the atrocity.
Diana West and Andrew Bostom have both weighed in on the well-documented hatred of women and Jews that are inculcated within Islam. That the rapists yelled, “Jew! Jew!” at their helpless victim as they beat and violated her speaks volumes as to the Muslim mind-set.
Several thoughts occurred to me in the aftermath of Logan’s nightmare:
1) Whose idea was it to send her back into that situation after she had already been taken into custody once by Egyptian authorities? Surely her supervisors knew about how many journalists had been beaten and harassed by the Muslim mob. And I’ve often wondered how the journalists who filed their reports knew they were being assaulted by pro-Mubarak men. Were the assailants wearing signs or armbands that identified them as Mubarak’s people? Again, there was a PC template to maintain. Revolution good, Mubarak bad.
2) There is plenty of material available, including Bostom’s book The Legacy of Jihad, which chronicles the rapes, murders, torture and abject abuse of Infidels by Muslims, throughout history. Logan’s superiors should have thought about the risks in sending their subordinate back into a frenzied Muslim mob scene in the middle of a violent revolution. That they did not sufficiently weigh the peril is inexcusable.
3) There comes a time in a supervisor’s position where he or she must evaluate the potential risks to a subordinate in any situation and terminate the unreasonable risk by removing the employee from that situation. If it sounds like I’m second-guessing Lara Logan’s superiors, you bet I am. From the stories I’ve read thus-far, there can be no doubt that this lady has guts. But someone above her should have seen the potential for something terrible to happen and pulled her out of there.
As to the stories I linked to above, its all very nice to read about how tough Lara Logan is and how she’s vowed to come back to work very soon. During my twenty-plus years in law enforcement I worked with my share of rape victims. Some were beaten by their rapists. One was gang-raped. They were of all ages and of both sexes.
The experiences left permanent emotional scars within them. They were left subdued and distrusting by what had been done to them.
I’m going to be very surprised if Logan bounces back from this as quickly as some of her friends and those glib news reporters think she will. My best wishes go out to her as she begins her recovery.
Lara Logan has been accused of being naively provocative, a very attractive young woman in Western dress in a country where such open displays of pulchritude are considered immoral. It’s clear that Lara Logan needs some time in prison for prostituting herself like that in the streets. And, for her to not be charged yet for her crimes is an insult to the industry.
Are you serious? What crimes did Logan commit? You sound like the Muslims who advocate stoning rape victims to death for adultery.
You cannot be serious.
Serious? Yes. crimes committed by Logan? Prostitution, but not sure if or how much compensation she may have received. Muslim? No, and never advocated for stoning rape victims to death as you claim. Logan was not a victim, she only got what she was searching for.
Facts do scare some people, and thanks for proving that point.
Okay, Michelle. You are serious. I’m not sure how you know what Logan was searching for, as if she intentionally incited the rape? Is that what you’re saying?
Lara Logan was raped for several reasons. 1. She is non-Muslim, a fact immediately evident to everyone in Egypt. That makes her a target for Muslim men in Egypt or any other Muslim majority nation. The Quran spells this out for Muslims in Surah 4, especially 4:24 and following. 2. She is a Westerner, evident from looks and dress. America is the Great Satan, as spelled out by Muslim clerics the world over and in Egypt. So “why not rape the American Jew-bitch?” is the only moral question in the minds of those Muslim men. (Shouting “Jew” is just a smear tactic they used to justify themselves). And 3, Lara’s superiors, prior to the rape, acted stupidly, as Work has pointed out.
Various reasons are offered for CBS’ attempt to squash the report. Let me offer another reason, just my hunch, but I think one very likely. CBS in particular and the West in general, greatly fear the Muslim world. Do something, anything, they (Muslims) don’t like, and they’ll fly airplanes into your buildings, burn down sections of whole cities, murder nuns, etc.
The West, has for a long time now, gotten over any kind of religious zealotry that might motivate Westerners to take issue with opposing viewpoints and to die for what they believe in. It’s getting harder and harder to move them to put their lives on the line for even the political causes they “believe” in. Some might call this cowardice on the part of the West.
So, when people who don’t really “believe” in anything are confronted by, say, wild-eyed Mohamed-named pilots shouting “Allah Akbar”, flying airliners like cruise missiles at Western cartoonists who previously thought that the founder of Islam is suitable subject material, the West fears such because, among other things, they have no basis for appreciating such persons; such a mind-set is an unknown. And don’t we all fear the unknown?
Comparatively, Western Judeo-Christianity is effete. When the secular West attacks such with withering satire, sarcasm and vituperation, they, the poor Judeo-Christians, barely react. They’ve been taught to turn the other cheek. This is only fuel on the fire for the secular West, who now say things they would never have dreamed of saying 50 years ago, openly and viciously, about Judeo-Christianity, so much so that I would now characterize them as the secular West’s favorite punching bag.
Try that with Muslims and they’ll fly a 747 down your chimney. Raw fear for your life from people who evidently have no fear, can cripple you from doing the right thing.
And, they’re right here among us, holding massive daily prayer sessions on entire blocks of New York City streets. And they must have a lot of money and political clout when they seriously talk of building a mosque at ground zero. Maybe they have made overtures of buying CBS?
It appears Lara Logan got what she wanted. She is not a victim. Some people might even call her a tramp. Tramps are just tramps and seem to bring on much of the torment in their lives by their own decisions. Wonder if Lara got any money for doing tricks in the street? Will she claim that money on her taxes as a tax deduction for work? Lara Logan needs to be charged with a crime. Having sex in the public can be considered a crime in many places in the world, and she participated, as she claims. Example: if two people, a car driver and a bandit rob a bank, both are charged with the crime of robbing the bank. Lara was not a victim, but an active participant in a criminal act. Perhaps a few decades in prison might help Lara to change her mind for participating in such conduct in the future. Send her back to Egypt, we sure don’t need people like her here in the U.S.A.
michellefrommadison
USA is free country you can say what you think. But it reflect you are jealous of lara logans gang rape. You wanted to be raped same way. If you feel it will be granted.
I firmly believed that there is no religion who allow any body (male female) rape. It is the human who twisted religion to cover their own bad deeds. In Islam
woman is not human being it is a commodity . That is the problem . Due to this reason there is rule in religion how to use it . Very pity. It is time to change Islam and their ideology or time will destroy it . Se the history of religion.
Once I discovered the horror and the details from eye witnesses to gang rape of Logan my consiance exploded. I still cant understand why it affected me so much. But as I started to process each different peice of shrapnal , the horror the guilt an the shame overwelmed me. I had not heared of this women before this incident, yet all I could do was relate to her husband, he is faced with a phsycological tradgedy of the same porportions. It is a diabolicle Irony, I’m sure he loves the woman very much, but he will never be able to be with her or away without the visions of her being gang raped an beaten by a pack of egyption sub humans flooding his memory. none of that family will be the same. And I will not be able to see her name or see her face without those demons comming to the forfront of my mind. When you put yourself in the position she did you have a responsability, She not only failed in that responsability by becoming the story, her monumental lack of judgment gave us all the oppertunity to feel the rape of conciance
Rape is a tool of war and terror, she served it up to the enemy on a silver platter and suffured a fate almost worse than death, that may be brave but it is certainly not coragous. I will make a point of putting CBS at the bottem of my perfered media choices
and my opinions of the sexually repressed mouslim man will never be the same.
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