Lara Logan has Spoken out and I wonder when the Egyptian media will listen and discuss her case in the country.
If the link does not work , then check out this link from CBS News website itself.
I feel so angry and sorry that she had been through all this .The least we can do is to speak about her case now in our media , I hope that Yosri Fouda speaks about her case today but of course I know Osama Bin Laden will take over all his of show tonight !! I hope that he shows this segment translated.
I found online testimony for someone who was there and said that those who attacked her were thugs and that they claimed she were Israeli and insulting Egypt before attacking and dragging her during the huge chaos and crowdedness at the square then. On that night I went to Tahrir and could not get there , there were not less than 4 million person in the streets mostly from first timers not revolutionary protesters including some strange dangerous faces.
May be I am asking much but Lara has to report this officially to the Egyptian authorities in order to investigate and document the matter and to cut all the talk and speculations even after this interview ,even if it is after three months and it will reach to nothing but this is the correct step to fight sexual harassment. It is not enough to speak in the media outside , this incident should be reported to the public persecutor. Documenting the case is another part to fight it, speaking out against it is not enough now despite the difficulty to speak about such incident openly in this way.
This is the lesson we were taught in the case of Noha Rushdie , the Egyptian Palestinian girl who dragged the man who just groped her while he was in his car to the court and brought the case to the daylight.
If Lara Logan does not want to report her case then at least she should give that letter of that Canadian lady to the Egyptian ambassador and give her contacts so we can investigate her case. A Canadian lady sent a letter to Logan telling her that she was raped by a taxi driver before arriving to Cairo international airport during the early days of the revolution. Even if it were from 3 months ago , still there is a rapist in our streets who will rape any female riding with him if he has a chance.
Already the SCAF and the cabinet has issued a law that maximizes the sexual assault and harassment of women and minors to the level of execution. “I have to thank them because for years we called for restricting laws to fight sexual assault and harassment in the country but we did not get them because the first lady Suzanne Mubarak did not recognize we had problem in the first place”
Most Egyptians do not know who Lara Logan is and what happened to her while some of those who knew her story began to have too many question and began to suspect her story because how it turned in to hate campaign against Egypt , Egyptians , Egyptian revolution , Arab and Muslims alike.Some of them even went a little far and began to feel that Lara Logan’s attack was being used currently to punish Egypt because of our shift in regional policies despite they all recognize the sexual harassment problem and xenophobia that took Egypt by storm thanks to Mubarak’s media policies during the revolution. Unfortunately Lara did not speak earlier and reported the matter in more details like other journalists who were attacked in the country giving a considerable time for everyone to speculate anything he wants especially with the amount of hate and racism from another side. ‘It is worth to mention that the Mubarak orphans are using the case against Tahrir revolutionaries and the revolution forgetting the fact that Egypt knew the true meaning of sexual harassment and assault except in time of Mubarak.’
Now no one can ignore the comments about Lara Logan’s case , it is like an elephant in the room. They showed the ignorance , hate and racism as you have seen in the comments of previous posts about her in this blog. It is not longer a sexual violence case but it turned in to a crusade against a whole nation and a whole religion , anyone reads the blog posts of that creature called Debbie and the comments across the internet feel that these people from the American right wing will not calm down except when the entire Egyptian and Muslim population wiped out of the entire universe. It is not longer Lara Logan’s case or woman’s case , it turned in to “pigs in Cairo need some dictator to teach them some manners” and “Egyptians celebrated the revolution by raping an American journalist” … etc. “One must wonder if Debbie and her follow racists will be very eager to defend the Iraqi women raped by the American army soldiers in Iraq or even the U.S army women soldiers who suffer from sexual assaults in the U.S army itself.”
As I hinted before the Egyptian media did not focus on the case and it was not because of bias but because of unprofessionalism if you may ask me.I only read about Lara Logan in Egyptian press twice : Tabloid pro-Mubarak Youm 7 and some Egyptian English language lifestyle magazine called Insight while on TV there was a short mentions for the incident in Yosri Fouda’s interview with Jan25 TV CEO Mohamed Gohar on TV. Of course after this interview I believe the media may speak about the incident now as we have got more details.
Update : The websites in Arabic began to speak about the interview , some commentators are disbelieving the story while the majority of our Arab brothers along with Mubarak orphans are attacking us and the revolution.
Back to Lara Logan , well she is a strong lady for sure and I believe what she has been through is not only exclusively for women journalists but to women in different fields every where. I have once heard to a fearful experience of an Egyptian doctor who used to work in the Gulf from several years ago and was raped during a night shift at the hospital she was working at , of course she did not report the matter and only left the country.
I feel very angry for Lara and personally believe that justice will get all those hurt her in Cairo from that night sooner or later in a way or another , this is personal belief. I apologize to Lara and to all other journalists who had been through hell technically in Cairo in those days. May be this file is closed for Lara but it will not be closed for Egypt if we insist to put our heads in the sand and claim that nothing happened.
If the link does not work , then check out this link from CBS News website itself.
I feel so angry and sorry that she had been through all this .The least we can do is to speak about her case now in our media , I hope that Yosri Fouda speaks about her case today but of course I know Osama Bin Laden will take over all his of show tonight !! I hope that he shows this segment translated.
I found online testimony for someone who was there and said that those who attacked her were thugs and that they claimed she were Israeli and insulting Egypt before attacking and dragging her during the huge chaos and crowdedness at the square then. On that night I went to Tahrir and could not get there , there were not less than 4 million person in the streets mostly from first timers not revolutionary protesters including some strange dangerous faces.
May be I am asking much but Lara has to report this officially to the Egyptian authorities in order to investigate and document the matter and to cut all the talk and speculations even after this interview ,even if it is after three months and it will reach to nothing but this is the correct step to fight sexual harassment. It is not enough to speak in the media outside , this incident should be reported to the public persecutor. Documenting the case is another part to fight it, speaking out against it is not enough now despite the difficulty to speak about such incident openly in this way.
This is the lesson we were taught in the case of Noha Rushdie , the Egyptian Palestinian girl who dragged the man who just groped her while he was in his car to the court and brought the case to the daylight.
If Lara Logan does not want to report her case then at least she should give that letter of that Canadian lady to the Egyptian ambassador and give her contacts so we can investigate her case. A Canadian lady sent a letter to Logan telling her that she was raped by a taxi driver before arriving to Cairo international airport during the early days of the revolution. Even if it were from 3 months ago , still there is a rapist in our streets who will rape any female riding with him if he has a chance.
Already the SCAF and the cabinet has issued a law that maximizes the sexual assault and harassment of women and minors to the level of execution. “I have to thank them because for years we called for restricting laws to fight sexual assault and harassment in the country but we did not get them because the first lady Suzanne Mubarak did not recognize we had problem in the first place”
Most Egyptians do not know who Lara Logan is and what happened to her while some of those who knew her story began to have too many question and began to suspect her story because how it turned in to hate campaign against Egypt , Egyptians , Egyptian revolution , Arab and Muslims alike.Some of them even went a little far and began to feel that Lara Logan’s attack was being used currently to punish Egypt because of our shift in regional policies despite they all recognize the sexual harassment problem and xenophobia that took Egypt by storm thanks to Mubarak’s media policies during the revolution. Unfortunately Lara did not speak earlier and reported the matter in more details like other journalists who were attacked in the country giving a considerable time for everyone to speculate anything he wants especially with the amount of hate and racism from another side. ‘It is worth to mention that the Mubarak orphans are using the case against Tahrir revolutionaries and the revolution forgetting the fact that Egypt knew the true meaning of sexual harassment and assault except in time of Mubarak.’
Now no one can ignore the comments about Lara Logan’s case , it is like an elephant in the room. They showed the ignorance , hate and racism as you have seen in the comments of previous posts about her in this blog. It is not longer a sexual violence case but it turned in to a crusade against a whole nation and a whole religion , anyone reads the blog posts of that creature called Debbie and the comments across the internet feel that these people from the American right wing will not calm down except when the entire Egyptian and Muslim population wiped out of the entire universe. It is not longer Lara Logan’s case or woman’s case , it turned in to “pigs in Cairo need some dictator to teach them some manners” and “Egyptians celebrated the revolution by raping an American journalist” … etc. “One must wonder if Debbie and her follow racists will be very eager to defend the Iraqi women raped by the American army soldiers in Iraq or even the U.S army women soldiers who suffer from sexual assaults in the U.S army itself.”
As I hinted before the Egyptian media did not focus on the case and it was not because of bias but because of unprofessionalism if you may ask me.I only read about Lara Logan in Egyptian press twice : Tabloid pro-Mubarak Youm 7 and some Egyptian English language lifestyle magazine called Insight while on TV there was a short mentions for the incident in Yosri Fouda’s interview with Jan25 TV CEO Mohamed Gohar on TV. Of course after this interview I believe the media may speak about the incident now as we have got more details.
Update : The websites in Arabic began to speak about the interview , some commentators are disbelieving the story while the majority of our Arab brothers along with Mubarak orphans are attacking us and the revolution.
Back to Lara Logan , well she is a strong lady for sure and I believe what she has been through is not only exclusively for women journalists but to women in different fields every where. I have once heard to a fearful experience of an Egyptian doctor who used to work in the Gulf from several years ago and was raped during a night shift at the hospital she was working at , of course she did not report the matter and only left the country.
I feel very angry for Lara and personally believe that justice will get all those hurt her in Cairo from that night sooner or later in a way or another , this is personal belief. I apologize to Lara and to all other journalists who had been through hell technically in Cairo in those days. May be this file is closed for Lara but it will not be closed for Egypt if we insist to put our heads in the sand and claim that nothing happened.
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