Taharrush - the Arab rape 'game' that's been exported to Europe
What happened in Cologne and other cities in Europe on New Year's Eve is known in the Arab world as Taharrush. It's a rape 'game' and it's particularly unpleasant for the women caught up in it (Hat Tip: Ellen S).
The "rape game" Taharrush is about a large group of Arab men surrounding
their victim, usually a Western woman or a woman wearing Western-style
clothing, and then the women are subjected to sexual abuse.
They
surround the victim in circles. The men in the inner circle are the
ones who physically abuse the woman, the next circle are the spectators,
while the mission of the third circle is to distract and divert
attention to what's going on.
If there is enough men, the woman
is dragged along by the mob, while the men take turns ripping her
clothes off, grope her, and inserting fingers in her various body
orifices.
I have a mercifully short video of it to show you (safe for work, but parental discretion advised - I did not turn on this video with my kids in the room).
Let's go to the videotape. More after the video.
Sounds like what happened to CBS reporter Lara Logan in Cairo's Tahrir Square five years ago, doesn't it? More reading here.
And now thanks to Frau Merkel, it's been exported to Europe. Will the US be next?
Data from Thomson Reuters in June showed that of the $60 billion in
aid pledged to needy Arab countries last year, around $15 billion had
actually been disbursed. Egypt was expecting over $10 billion, but
received only about half of that amount. A planned $3.2 billion loan
from the International Monetary Fund was inconclusive last year and is
currently under negotiation.
... Part of the reason for the delay, analysts say, is that recipient
countries are in political transition and have not had time to implement
changes in economic policies.
“For aid to flow, it needs both donor and recipient to be ready, with
new governments in place with a clear economic program and plan,” said
Alia Moubayed, an economist in Dubai for Barclays. “Some countries were
simply not ready yet, without newly elected leaders or planned reforms.”
Then this delay in aid is at least, in part, due to the failure of the
new governments to implement necessary policies to ensure transparency
and accountability. But the reason last year's IMF loan to Egypt was not
made wasn't because of the IMF, but because Egypt rejected it! (Later in the article it turns out that foreign aid reaching Egypt has grown by nearly 600% since 2007.)
Another reason is the financial and euro zone debt crisis that has
made lending tougher for Western donors that have been generous in the
past.
“Both Europe and the U.S. are inward-looking, focusing on domestic
concerns and weak economies,” said Fawaz A. Gerges, director of the
Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. “The sad reality
is that as Arab Spring countries transition from authoritarianism to
democracy, they find themselves alone without much assistance from the
world.”
This is the only explicit mention of the West in the article. The article mentions the Deauville Partnership,
which appears to be the mechanism through which the West (and a number
of Islamic states) are contributing to the Arab spring countries. (One
of the targeted recipients of this aid is Jordan, which is not,
technically speaking, an Arab spring country.)
What's not clear from the article is if the West is failing to meet its
pledges. Furthermore, just because $60 billion was pledged this year,
doesn't necessarily mean it was meant to be disbursed this year.
Apparently the terms of these pledges was unspecified.
For the Deauville Partnership, the U.S. led the push for ratification
of the amendments to the Articles of Agreement as required to expand
the activities of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(EBRD) to Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco. With the changes to the
EBRD Charter, the EBRD will activate the “special fund” with up to $1.3
billion in lending and investments this year, and, with full
ratification of the charter amendment, up to $4 billion over the next
three years.
This sounds like a pretty ambitious plan (above and beyond the Asset Recovery Plan and other initiatives) for nations that are "inward looking."
Finally the Times reported:
There are big incentives for donors to pledge aid. If Arab countries,
including Egypt and Jordan, do not tackle their growing unemployment
problem and huge budget deficits, they risk spreading political
instability across the region.
This makes the pledges sound less like foreign aid than a shakedown.
Note that this paragraph doesn't say "there is a big incentive for
donors to meet their pledges as it will help Egypt and Jordan develop
healthy economies that will in turn create new economic partnerships in
the region."
Given the title and some of the information provided, it sounds like
deserving nations are being deprived by shortsightedness. But a closer
look at the facts suggest that the article is a brief for increasing
foreign aid to these nations, whether they adopt necessary reforms or
not.
When Logan first talked about her assault to Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes, there was this:
Logan: And I'm screaming, thinking if I scream, if they know,
they're gonna stop, you know. Someone's gonna stop them. Or they're
gonna stop themselves. Because this is wrong. And it was the opposite.
Because the more I screamed, it turned them into a frenzy.
Someone in the crowd shouted that she was an Israeli, a Jew. Neither is
true. But, to the mob, it was a match to gasoline. The savage assault
turned into a murderous fury. Logan: I have one arm on Ray. I've lost the fixer, I've lost the
drivers. I've lost everybody except him. And I feel them tearing at my
clothing....
The second paragraph is Pelley's narration. Note how little attention he
paid to the charge that Logan was Jewish or Israeli. At the end of the
segment, Logan mentions the prevalent threat of sexual harassment
in Egypt. But nothing else in the segment refers back to the charge of
"Israeli/Jew." I don't blame Logan as she was the interviewee. But why
didn't Pelley spend some time to understand why the charge of "Jew"
evoked such hatred?
The Obama Administration is backing (Islamist) Turkey as the
distributor of weapons supplied by (opportunistically pro-Islamist)
Qatar. Turkey and Qatar want to give the Muslim Brotherhood a monopoly
over receiving weapons even though most of the rebels are non- and even
anti-Islamist. As this happens, the Obama Administration is thus working
directly to install a revolutionary Islamist regime in Syria that will
disrupt the region, help shred, U.S. interests, and battle with Israel
for decades to come. A number of Republican senators see no problem with
this strategy.
Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to
supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad
are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular
opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American
officials and Middle Eastern diplomats.
(Sanger's report de-emphasizes Turkey's role in this problem.)
The article later raises a political question:
The assessment of the arms flows comes at a crucial time for Mr.
Obama, in the closing weeks of the election campaign with two debates
looming that will focus on his foreign policy record. But it also calls
into question the Syria strategy laid out by Mitt Romney, his Republican
challenger.
In a speech at the Virginia Military Institute last Monday, Mr. Romney
said he would ensure that rebel groups “who share our values” would
“obtain the arms they need to defeat Assad’s tanks, helicopters and
fighter jets.” That suggests he would approve the transfer of weapons
like antiaircraft and antitank systems that are much more potent than
any the United States has been willing to put into rebel hands so far,
precisely because American officials cannot be certain who will
ultimately be using them.
The question would then seem to be how strictly Governor Romney would
adhere to his qualification of "share our values." (Barry Rubin raised a
similar question here.)
Eleven years later, “they” still hate us, now
more than ever, Logan told the crowd. The Taliban and al-Qaida have not
been vanquished, she added. They’re coming back.
“I chose this subject because, one, I can’t
stand, that there is a major lie being propagated . . .” Logan declared
in her native South African accent.
The lie is that America’s military might has tamed the Taliban.
“There is this narrative coming out of Washington
for the last two years,” Logan said. It is driven in part by “Taliban
apologists,” who claim “they are just the poor moderate, gentler, kinder
Taliban,” she added sarcastically. “It’s such nonsense!”
Logan stepped way out of the “objective,”
journalistic role. The audience was riveted as she told of plowing
through reams of documents, and interviewing John Allen, the top U.S.
commander in Afghanistan; Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a Taliban
commander trained by al-Qaida. The Taliban and al-Qaida are teaming up
and recruiting new terrorists to do us deadly harm, she reports.
She made a passionate case that our government is
downplaying the strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as
a rationale of getting us out of the longest war. We have been lulled
into believing that the perils are in the past: “You’re not listening to
what the people who are fighting you say about this fight. In your
arrogance, you think you write the script.”
Our enemies are writing the story, she suggests, and there’s no happy ending for us.
...
Logan even called for retribution for the recent terrorist killings of
Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other
officials. The event is a harbinger of our vulnerability, she said.
Logan hopes that America will “exact revenge and let the world know that
the United States will not be attacked on its own soil. That its
ambassadors will not be murdered, and that the United States will not
stand by and do nothing about it.”
Unfortunately, I was not able to find video of Logan's talk on line. Two other speeches have been posted, but so far Logan's has not. I guess that President Obama still has friends in Chicago.
You would think that three days after American-Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy was lucky to escape with two broken arms after being blindfolded for two hours while Egyptian police put their hands down her pants that Egypt would at least appear on a list of countries that harass female journalists. You would think that nine months after American television journalist Lara Logan was gang raped by an Egyptian mob in Cairo's Tahrir Square - barely escaping with her life - that Egypt would at least appear on a list of countries that harass female journalists. But you'd be wrong. Guess who's on the list instead.
Israel has been pinpointed by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) as one of six countries where female journalists face “extreme levels of violence” while carrying out their professional duties.
In a letter sent to United Nations General-Secretary Ban Ki-moon to mark the International Day on the Elimination of Violence against Women, which took place Friday, the IFJ highlights Mexico, the Philippines, Somalia, Russia, Nepal and Israel as countries where women journalists face “threats, political pressure, violence, rape and abuse… either due to their gender or simply for doing their job.”
Yes, really. But get a load of the difference between Israel and the other countries mentioned.
While there have been several reports in Israel of female journalists being harassed and arrests of Palestinian female journalists, in all of the other five countries mentioned in the letter women journalists have been actually killed or shot during the course of their work.
So why did Israel make the list? Because the security forces had the audacity to insist that female officers ensure that female journalists whose hostility to Israel is far from secret weren't carrying anything untoward in their underwear.
Earlier this year, in an episode that the media dubbed “bra-gate,” a female journalist from the Al- Jazeera television network was denied entry to a press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s after refusing to remove her bra for a security check.
A similar incident took place in July when two female journalists, one from Agence France-Presse, were asked to remove their bra behind a curtain before it was x-rayed for security reasons.
There are a lot of other double standards against Israel in this designation. Read the whole thing.
It will be interesting to see whether our own media take on the IFJ via the editorial pages.
CBS News reporter Lara Logan was the story on 60 Minutes on Sunday night.
Let's go to the videotape.
Notice what she said set the crowd off? That they said she was an Israeli Jew. She described that as being like lighting a flame for them. What do you think these people - who have a peace treaty with us - would do to Israeli Jews if God forbid they were given a chance? Remember the Ramallah lynch? If they could have finished Logan - whom they believed to be an Israeli Jew - off that way they would have been pleased to do so.
So it was about Logan being a woman (and being blond) until they decided she was an Israeli Jew. Then it became about tearing her apart limb by limb just like those two Israeli soldiers. It was no longer about sex (if it ever was). It was about power. It was about tearing apart the infidel (Israeli) Jew. She is lucky to be alive.
Phyllis Chesler criticizes Logan for not referring to her tormentors once on the air as Muslims. Nor, writes Chesler, does she seem to blame them at all. In fact, Chesler finds Logan's description to be too politically correct.
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?
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.
Those of you near television sets with access to US stations may want to watch CBS on Sunday night. They will be interviewing one of their own, Lara Logan, who will be talking about her sexual assault at the hands of Egyptian predators in Cairo's Tahrir Square in February (Hat Tip: Soccer Dad).
Ms. Logan, a CBS News correspondent, was in the square preparing a report for “60 Minutes” on Feb. 11 when the celebratory mood suddenly turned threatening. 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 lasted for about 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men.
Ms. Logan, who returned to work this month, is expected to speak at length about the assault on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.
...
“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.”
Mr. Butler, Ms. Logan’s producer, Max McClellan, and two locally hired drivers were “helpless,” Mr. Fager said, “because the mob was just so powerful.” A bodyguard who had been hired to accompany the team was able to stay with Ms. Logan for a brief period of time.
“For Max,” the producer, “to see the bodyguard come out of the pile without her, that was one of the worst parts,” Mr. Fager said. He said Ms. Logan “described how her hand was sore for days after — and then she realized it was from holding on so tight” to the bodyguard’s hand.
“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.”
I'm a bit surprised that CBS didn't brief her as to Egypt's often sordid treatment of women before it sent her there.
Read the whole thing. I will try to post the 60 Minutes segment on Monday morning, assuming that it is embeddable.
Another Lara Logan: NY Times photographer sexually harassed in Libya
I'm sure that this is all just a coincidence and that the treatment that New York Times photographer Lynsey Addario endured in captivity in Libya has nothing - nothing at all - to do with the treatment Lara Logan endured at the hands of a mob in Cairo and certainly nothing - nothing at all - to do with Arab Muslim attitudes toward women.
One man grabbed her breasts – the start of a pattern of sexual harassment she endured over the ensuing 48 hours.
‘There was a lot of groping,’ she said. ‘Every man who came in contact with us basically felt every inch of my body short of what was under my clothes.’
As she was being driven away from Ajdabiya, she said another of her captors stroked her head and told her repeatedly that she was going to be killed.
‘He was caressing my head in this sick way, this tender way, saying, "You’re going to die tonight. You’re going to die tonight",‘ she added.
Miss Addario was with Anthony Shadid, the paper’s Beirut bureau chief, photographer Tyler Hicks and reporter and videographer Stephen Farrell when they were seized while leaving the scene of fighting between rebels and Libyan government forces because they decided it had become too dangerous.
Their driver inadvertently drove into a checkpoint manned by troops loyal to the Libyan dictator.
‘I was yelling to the driver, "Keep driving! Don’t stop! Don’t stop!",' said Mr Hicks. ‘I knew that the consequences of being stopped would be very bad.’
There's nothing to see here, so just move on. They just sound like 'ordinary' adolescent males, don't they?
Video: Putting women's rights back on the Middle East media agenda
Why does our mainstream media give the Arab and Muslim countries of the Middle East a pass when it comes to their treatment of women? I don't know. I'd suggest that it's the racism of no expectations. We don't expect these brutes to behave any differently, so we write it off by saying that we cannot expect them to behave differently.
On Tuesday, I chanced upon this post, which claims that Lara Logan wasn't raped at Tahrir Square in Cairo. The post is based upon nothing but the writer's impressions. As our rabbis tell us "lo ra'iti eino ra'aya" (the fact that I didn't see it doesn't prove anything). I don't believe that post for one minute. Sexual harassment of women is routine on the streets of Cairo. But if I had not read about it five years ago, I would not have known it from our mainstream media.
Let's see if we can change things, starting with getting our mainstream media to tell the truth.
The attack on Lara Logan in Cairo two weeks ago was carried out by Muslims who believed it was their religious duty writes Andy McCarthy.
You are just supposed to assume it was a “mob” — the sort of thing that could have happened in any setting where raw emotion erupts, say, Wisconsin’s capitol.
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.
As Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer has detailed, al-Azhar University endorses a sharia manual called Umdat al-Salik. It is quite clear on the subject of women who become captives of Muslim forces: “When a child or a woman is taken captive, they become slaves by the fact of capture, and the woman’s previous marriage is immediately annulled.” This is so the woman can then be made a concubine of her captor.
This arrangement is encouraged by the Koran. Sura 4:23–24, for example, forbids Muslim men from consorting with the wives of other Muslims but declares sexual open season on any women these men have enslaved. (“Forbidden to you are . . . married women, except those whom you own as slaves.”) Moreover, Mohammed — whose life Muslims are exhorted by scripture to emulate — rewarded his fighters by distributing as slaves the women of the Jewish Qurazyzah tribe after Muslim forces had beheaded their husbands, fathers, and sons. The prophet himself also took one of the captured women, Rayhanna, as his concubine. And, as Spencer further notes, Mohammed directed his jihadists that they should not practice coitus interruptus with their slaves — they were encouraged to ravish them, but only in a manner that might produce Muslim offspring.
Have you all noticed that the news coverage of Lara Logan's sexual assaultrape is ignoring the perpetrators? Have you noticed that while radical Leftist Nir Rosen was (rightfully) taken to the cleaners last week for his comments about Logan, we have heard nothing about the Egyptian perpetrators or the misogynistic (women hating) society that is Egypt today? To understand why the coverage has taken that slant, you have to understand the victimization rules. Caroline Glick explains.
Identity politics revolve around the narrative of victimization. For adherents to identity politics, the victim is not a person, but a member of a privileged victim group. That is, the status of victimhood is not determined by facts, but by membership in an identity group. Stories about victims are not dictated by facts. Victim stories are tailored to fit the victim. Facts, values and individual responsibility are all irrelevant.
In light of this, a person’s membership in specific victim groups is far more important than his behavior. And there is a clear pecking order of victimhood in identity politics.
Anti-American Third World national, religious and ethnic groups are at the top of the victim food chain. They out-victim everyone else.
After them come the Western victims: Racial minorities, women, homosexuals, children and animals.
Israelis, Jews, Americans, white males and rich people are the predetermined perpetrators. No matter how badly they are victimized, brave reporters will go to heroic lengths to ignore, underplay or explain away their suffering.
In cases when victim groups are attacked by victim groups – for instance when Iraqis were attacked by Saddam, or Palestinians are attacked by the PA, the media tend to ignore the story.
When members of Western victim groups are attacked by Third World victims, the story can be reported, but with as little mention of the identity of the victim-perpetrators as possible. So it was with coverage of Logan and the rest of the foreign reporters assaulted in Egypt. They were attacked by invisible attackers with no identities, no barbaric values, no moral responsibility, and no criminal culpability. CBS went so far as to blur the faces of the men who surrounded Logan in the moments before she was attacked.
When we understand the rules of reportage as dictated by adherents to identity politics, we understand why Rosen was excommunicated when he mocked Logan and not when he called for Israel’s destruction, condemned the commemoration of the September 11 attacks, or sided with the Taliban and the Iraqi insurgents killing Americans. In those cases, he followed the rules – preferring the cause of “victims” over the lives of “perpetrators.”
But when he mocked Logan, he crossed the line. He treated Logan as a perpetrator because he thought of her as an insufficiently anti-American reporter. He didn’t realize that when she was brutalized, she had slid into the victim category.
Identity politics are nothing more than socially acceptable bigotry. Those who practice it are racist bigots who have replaced liberal values that hold everyone to the same moral and criminal standards with illiberal values that judge people’s morality and criminality by the identity group with which they are most readily associated.
When we understand identity politics, we understand how it is that the wholesale assaults against foreign journalists have received so little analysis. Lara Logan and the other hundred reporters attacked in Tahrir Square are real victims, not because of who they are, but because of what happened to them. The Egyptians who attacked them are real criminals, not because of who they are, but because of what they did.
But until reporters are willing to admit this – that is, until they dump their ideological attachment to identity politics in favor of the truth – news consumers worldwide will continue to receive news reports that obfuscate more than they tell us about the world we live in.
I'd love to see reporters drop their ideological attachment to identity politics. Unfortunately, I doubt their employers will let them do so. But I'd love to see Lara Logan lead the way.
Sexual assault of CBS reporter in Egypt: Horrifying but not surprising
I am sure that by now you have all heard the story of Lara Logan, the CBS News reporter who was sexually assaulted while covering the celebrations in Tahrir Square last Friday night. On Wednesday, we received the additional detail that while Logan was being assaulted, her assailants were screaming "Jew, Jew" (Hat Tip: Memeorandum).
While Logan's assault is horrifying, it's not surprising. The Arabs in general - and the Egyptians in particular - are known for this sort of thing. This is from a 2006 post by the Sandmonkey - one of the first things I ever read on his blog.
The story is as follows for the those of you who didn't hear about it: It was the first day of Eid, and a new film was opening downtown. Mobs of males gatherd trying to get in, but when the show was sold out, they decided they will destroy the box office. After accomplishing that, they went on what can only be described as a sexual frenxy: They ran around grabbing any and every girl in sight, whether a niqabi, a Hijabi or uncoverd. Whether egyptian or foreigner. Even pregnant ones. They grabbed them, molested them, tried to rip their cloths off and rape them, all in front of the police, who didn't do shit. The good people of downtown tried their best to protect the girls. Shop owners would let the girls in and lock the doors, while the mobs tried to break in. Taxi drivers put the girls in the cars while the mobs were trying to break the glass and grab the girls out. It was a disgusting pandamonium of sexual assaults that lasted for 5 houres from 7:30 PM to 12:30 am, and it truns my stomach just to think about it.
I called my father when I heard of that happening, and he informed me that he didn't hear of it at all. They watched Al Jazeerah, CNN, flipped through opposition newspapers, and nothing. Nada. Nobody mentioned it. As if it didn't happen.
But it did.
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Now, the egyptian blogsphere has been abuzz in debate over the incident. Some are writing posts on why it happend, possible causes, what it means, the social and political factors that could possibly lead to this behavior, and quite honestly, I can't be botherd. I don't care why it happend. Rape is not up for debate. I just care that it happend. What we should discuss right now isn't what caused it, but what kind of horrible punishment that should be enacted on any egyptian male who thinks that it is well into his right to sexually harass a female on the street. That's it. Pure and simple.
I am often told that I am too westernized or too liberal by people I know, and they are not wrong or inaccurate. My values are for the most part western values. However, there are two middle-eastern traits in me that I can never give up: The first is my stupid insistince on always paying for the bill when I am with a girl I am dating, and the second is my protectiveness of women. I have no tolerance for those who assault women sexually in any way, and that almost got me kicked out of my school in Boston when I broke the leg of one of my roommates who raped a friend of mine. The incident only resulted in him getting a broken leg because people stoped me before I killed him. And I had the full intention of killing him. Rapists do not deserve to live. And that's how I feel towards every single one of those pieces of shit that attacked women on the streets of cairo the other day.
People can debate solutions based on dialogue, education, or whatever and that's their right. My solution is far simpler: Any egyptian man whose mother raised him right should beat the living crap of any man he sees on the street that assaults or harasses a female. Think of them as your sisters, and act accordingly. The Police isn't interested in protecting the women, and that's fine, but that means that we should take this job as our own. Those who insist on acting like animals will be treated as such, and deserve no sympathy or mercy from us. I assure you, if we did this, if we undertook this as part of our national duty, there will no longer be a problem on our streets.
That is all!
Let's go to the videotape. This one is from 2008.
The second reason I wasn't surprised by the assault was when I saw the picture of Logan at the top of this post. Several years ago, the wife of a friend confided in me that she had been raped before they were married. She was assaulted by an Arab man right here in Jerusalem, and she told me that she attributed the assault that she was blond and that she was wearing her hair loose. She said that blonds have to be particularly careful around Arab men, and she advised wearing their hair tight and in a bun. Look at Logan's picture. See what I mean?
But let’s just remember one thing going forward: Nir Rosen believed this was the right moment to let the world know that he “ran out of sympathy for her” and that we should “remember her role as a major war monger” and that we “have to find humor in the small things.”
I hope Rosen never finds employment again. Those remarks are inexcusable.
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