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CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted in Egypt

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Birth Control Works2/15/2011 2:56:20 pm PST

re: #175 SanFranciscoZionist

I’m sure they do. And like anywhere else in the world, it’s probably culturally somewhat specific. Women in the Arab world are probably less likely in general to be in public places alone than Western women, but probably more vulnerable to being sexually assaulted by relatives, family friends or employers without feeling that they have recourse, or that it’s safe to report. For example. Sexual assault is rampant in any culture in which a woman’s value is tied to her chastity. Which was us until a minute ago, and still is in a lot of places.

I will, however, suggest that what happened to this reporter, specifically, could have happened pretty much anywhere in the world that a large, chaotic crowd had gathered, and that it sounds as though both the ladies of Cairo and the Egyptian Army took effective action.

But women have been reporting in such situations for a long time and I don’t remember any such incidences.

If the perpetrators were men who believed that rape was a plausible punishment for perceived crimes or an acceptable way to behave in certain situations, I’d say it was culturally specific.

It seems to me they were sending a message to the Western World. “Don’t mess with us, or we will fuck you up.”

I’ve not heard reports of such behavior from other than Whacko Islamists.

It is Whacko behavior of a certain belief system. Not a representation of everyone of that belief system.