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What Every Good Cultural Relativist Knows About the Gang Assault on Lara Logan by Phyllis Chesler NewsRealBlog February 21, 2011 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/943/gang-assault-lara-logan Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Excerpt: On February 11th CBS foreign correspondent, Lara Logan, was publicly gang-raped and beaten for 20-30 minutes by Egyptian men in Tahrir Square who, all the while, cursed her as a "Jew." CBS only revealed this four days later. Writing at the London Guardian, blogger Amanda Marcotte chose not to focus on this act of jihadic barbarism because she did not want anyone to draw negative conclusions about Islam, Muslims, Egyptians, or about the so-called Egyptian pro-democracy "revolution." Instead, like many other commentators, Marcotte bemoaned the fact that "rightwingers" might now draw some politically incorrect conclusions. Marcotte writes: "In this case, rightwingers who have an interest in stoking fear and loathing of Muslims worldwide pounced at the opportunity to smear all Egyptians with this crime." Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid
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