Lara Logan tells her story, but sadly, falls short of the mark
Israel Matzav has the video of Lara Logan's 60 Minutes interview about her horrific rape ordeal in Egypt. But as Phyllis Chesler notes, she was too politically correct:
As for Logan's PC approach, it's sad but predictable she would do this, and all but let her rapists off the hook; specifically, not mention their religion and such.
With all due respect both for Logan’s terrible ordeal and for her choice to “break the silence,” how naive can she have been? How frightened is she still now? Does Logan fear she will lose her mainstream media credentials if she analyzes what happened to her in feminist and political terms?That's symbolic of a double-standard held in Islam on male homosexuality - they can be hostile, yet they can be favorable simultaneously, depending on the situation/location. I guess one could wonder if lesbians, by contrast, have less rights than gays.
I think she does. While she has told the truth about what happened to her, her careful, cautious, exceedingly politically correct presentation suggests that many hands were, once again, behind what she said and how she said it.
Logan was born in South Africa where the sexual violence against girls and women is extreme. She was born in Africa where gang-rape and rape have been employed not as a spoil of war but as a systematic weapon of war (think Rwanda, Darfur, Congo, Liberia). She is a reporter at a time in history when both infidel and Muslim women are routinely raped—then arrested for it, raped again by their jailers, then flogged, hung, or stoned for the crime of having been raped. Think Iran. Think Pakistan.
And finally, it is a well known fact that the male sexual harassment of women on the streets of Egypt is pandemic. One survey documented that 98% of infidel or foreign women and 88% of Egyptian women have been harassed on these mean streets. Thus, should women reporters not cover Muslim countries?
Guess what? Muslim men also rape Muslim and infidel boys as well as foreign male journalists whom they also torture and behead. (Think Daniel Pearl.) There is a long history of Muslim men kidnapping, enslaving, selling, branding, and castrating infidel men as well as selling infidel women as sex slaves.
As for Logan's PC approach, it's sad but predictable she would do this, and all but let her rapists off the hook; specifically, not mention their religion and such.
Labels: Africa, communications, Egypt, islam, misogyny, United States
