Thursday - February 24, 2011

My Apologies

Sorry folks. I completely missed the Lara Logan story. I can’t read every blog every day, and I can’t live in front of the TV news. I vaguely recall that her name was mentioned on Fox News as one of the group of media people who had been roughed up, mentioned as a bit of a sidebar comment, along with Anderson Cooper’s bloody nose, to their own Greg Palkot being beaten by the mob and then roughed up by the police, in a follow-on piece 2 weeks after that happened.

Today I learned of this for the first time and I am both stunned and disgusted. Disgusted by Egypt, and just as disgusted by the media. By CBS, who hid the story for 4 days in the first place:

On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a “60 Minutes” story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.

In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.

and by the rest of the media for sticking to the “Egyptian peasants are all freedom fighters who want equality and democracy” meme that the press beast has decided will be the Official View on that whole uprising. The fact that this woman was brutally beaten and gang raped by a crowd of 200 Egyptian celebrants doesn’t fit that picture, so it gets ignored. Nearly 2 weeks after the event and there is still no definitive word on whether her attack lasted 20 minutes or 3 hours. I am not implying that the time scale in any way lessens the overall severity, it’s just that I’m making the point that no one is asking. She had a film crew with her. And some security people. Hasn’t anyone spoken to them? Are they all dead? Have they all committed suicide in shame for their total failure as men in allowing this to occur? They ought to. And why isn’t Fox News chewing CBS a new one every hour for that networks cowardly decision to blur out the faces of the men in the crowd mere seconds before her assault? And ignoring how the crowd chanted “Jew! Jew! Jew!” and anti-American calls while this ostensibly Christian South African reported was molested?

Other blogs have been all over this horror, and a goodly number of the lesser seen (by me I guess) media outlets.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/egypt-army-saves-cbs-news-lara-logan-after-rape-and-beating-by-egypts-freedom-loving-protesters.html
http://sheikyermami.com/2011/02/20/lara-logan-lame-stream-media-covers-up-rape-protects-rapist-thugs/
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/02/nyu-what-took-you-so-long.html
http://www.israelforum.com/blog_article.php?aid=3273621
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/60-minutes-lara-logan-was-repeatedly-raped-by-egyptian-mob-yelling-jew-jew.html
http://www.tmz.com/2011/02/16/lara-logan-sexually-assaulted-recovery-egypt-cbs-reporter-60-minutes-hospitalized-work-soldiers/
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/17/what-cnn-didnt-want-to-show-in-the-lara-logan-photo/
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/lara-logans-vicious-violent-gang-rape-medias-silencesanction.html
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=208754
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/02/secular-egyptian-democracy-lovers-shouted-jew-jew-during-their-brutal-sexual-assault-of-60-minutes-r.html
http://tammybruce.com/2011/02/tonights-3rd-hour-has-posted-3.html
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/02/after-lara-loga.html
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/02/22/andy-mccarthy-cbs-reporter-lara-logan-and-rape-under-islamic-law/
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/260288

The media’s treatment of Logan’s victimization specifically and its treatment of the widescale mob violence against foreign reporters in Cairo generally tells us a great deal about the nature of today’s media discourse.
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According to a 1999 report from the World Health Organization, 97 percent of Egyptian women and girls have undergone the barbaric practice of genital mutilation. A 2005 report by the Cairo-based Association for Legal Rights of Women submitted to the UN explained that Egyptian women are constitutionally deprived of their basic rights, including their rights to control their bodies and property. Males who murder their female relatives are often unpunished.
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THE STORY of the media at Tahrir Square exposes those rules for all to see. The bravery of the journalists on the scene, the media’s determination to ignore Islamic misogyny, and their expulsion of Rosen from polite society all tell us that what drives the international media is not a quest for truth. It is a quest to advance the ideology of identity politics. (see the JPost link above)

Is it fair for me to condemn all of Egypt for this rape? No. Is it fair of me to condemn all of Islam for this? Yes. After all, it’s what they do. It’s what they are. And if nothing else, amidst all the cheering and/or worrying about the revolutions sweeping across the southern Mediterranean, remember that Islam is the driving force, the cornerstone, the commonality that they all share. And here is your reminder, as if you needed one, of the true face of that “religion”:

Umdat al-Salikwa ‘Uddat an-Nasik. [” Reliance of the Traveler and Tools of the Worshiper"](thanks WZ:

Except it doesn’t happen in Madison. It happens in Egypt. It happened in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, in the riots that led to Suharto’s fall — as Sharon Lapkin recounts, human-rights groups interviewed more than 100 women who had been captured and gang raped, including many Chinese women, who were told this was their fate as non-Muslims. It happens in Muslim countries and in the Muslim enclaves of Europe and Australia, perpetrated by Islamic supremacists acting on a sense of entitlement derived from their scriptures, fueled by the rage of their jihad, and enabled by the deafening silence of the media.

(Excerpts from a 2007 interview by Front Page Magazine with Bill Warner, reprinted in light of this atrocity. The interview is about the official Muslim position on slavery and rape. Bottom line: it’s encouraged, as long as it’s against the infidel.)

FP: This institution of Islamic sexual slavery isn’t just a reality of the past is it?

Warner: Everything that has been said up to now is not only history; it is Sunna (the example of the perfect pattern of action and morality found in Mohammed). So today we don’t have a beautiful blonde Christian girl on the block in Mecca, but we have continuous and ongoing rapes by Muslims in kafir cities. This goes on everywhere that Islam goes because it is Sunna.

This is a continuous 1400-year history of jihad. In every detailed history that comes from the original documents from history, rape is a constant. You have to look in the original documents, since our historians refuse to report it in so-called history books.

Rape is Sunna. Rape is not a sin. Rape is permitted and encouraged by Mohammed and the Koran. Islam is the only political system in the world that includes rules for rape and war. Rape is jihad. How good can it get? A Muslim gets to rape a kafir girl and get heaven credits. All jihad is a ticket to Paradise.

The most disgusting aspect of the Islamic rape of kafirs is not the rapes, but the kafir response. Kafirs become dhimmis by ignoring the rapes. I challenge you to find one, even one, mention of Islamic rape in the history books.

Islamic rape is more taboo than the N-word in the media. At least the N-word is acknowledged to exist. Even unicorns exist in media fantasy. But Islamic rape is forbidden to even exist as a fantasy.

And to reach a fevered rant: our so-called “feminist” scholars are absolutely intellectually and morally bankrupt hypocrites. They are traitors to our culture and a shame and a disgrace. They remain silent in the face of heinous crimes against women. They are arch-dhimmis when they refuse to speak of the Sunna, history and current rapes of our daughters, mothers, and sisters.

And our tax dollars support their evil in our public universities.
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The chief mark of dhimmitude today is ignorance of the Koran, the Sira and the Hadith. The ignorance of kafir intellectuals about Islam is profound.

They don’t know about how jihad killed the 120,000,000 Africans, the 60,000,000 Christians, the 80,000,000 Hindus or the 10,000,000 Buddhists. Our intellectuals do not know about the Tears of Jihad (detailed in all of our books). That is a lot of death and ignorance—270,000,000 dead. Our intellectuals don’t know, don’t care and don’t bother. They deny.
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They do not understand that Islam is a civilization based upon the ideal of dualism. Islamic ethics and politics have one set of rules for Muslims and another for kafirs. Our civilization is based upon the ideal of unitary ethics, the Golden Rule. We do not have two sets of laws and ethics, like Islam. Our intellectuals cannot explain what dualism has meant in the past or what it will mean for our future—civilizational annihilation.

Our intellectuals and the media have only one view of Islam—a glorious civilization. They have created the “terrorist”, a bogus term based upon ignorance. And the “terrorist” is not even a “real” Muslim, but an extremist fundamentalist. All of these terms are based upon a profound ignorance of Islamic political doctrine.

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