While reporting from Egypt for a "60 Minutes" story, CBS News correspondant Lara Logan was sexually assaulted and beaten. According to a statement issued by CBS on Tuesday, Logan was attacked on Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down. She had been covering the rejoicing in Tahrir Square when she and her team were surrounded by a mob of more than 200 people. After being pulled away from her team, Logan "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" before being saved by a group of women and Egyptian soldiers. She flew back to the United States on the first flight the next morning and is now recovering in a hospital.
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Certainly unfortunate for the lady involved, but what's it going to take for Americans to learn the true nature of Islam. This Logan event is a micro event. 911 was a huge macro event, and still Americans do not believe that Islam is inherently evil. I fear that more 9/11 events or 7/7 events are going to be needed to teach the West that Islam is wholly incompatible with civilized society.
Posted by: Frank Scarn | February 15, 2011 at 01:56 PM
This is horrible! As a sexually assaulted victim myself, my heart goes out to her and her family. Something like this changes your life completely.
Posted by: Leemary | February 15, 2011 at 02:21 PM
"There will be no further comment from CBS News and Correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time."
Try telling that to news media whores when you don't want to be bothered with them. Then wait and watch what they make up about you as they rape you in the media.
Posted by: Fritz Von | February 15, 2011 at 03:48 PM
Just for a little context, how many female reporters have been surrounded by protesters and suffered a sustained and brutal sexual assault and beating in the United States or Europe?
Posted by: Stump Barnes | February 15, 2011 at 04:10 PM
Frank Scarn, you may be on to something.
I'm so glad that here in the United States, there is never a sexual assault of any kind. And if there is the occasional rape, it must have been in the name of Islam. That's essentially what you're saying, right?
Posted by: DG3 | February 15, 2011 at 04:11 PM
What a horrible thing to read......My thoughts and prayers are with you Lara.
Posted by: G.V. ~ Tucson, AZ | February 15, 2011 at 04:22 PM
And these are the people that you've supported?
Posted by: Quaker Oats | February 15, 2011 at 05:06 PM
God Bless this woman!
And this is a peaceful religion? Where are the outcrys of condemnation over this atrocity from the peaceful loving Muslims? Silence as usual.
Posted by: Hope | February 15, 2011 at 05:32 PM
A lady gets attacked during a revolutionary riot and Frank Scarn tells us that this means that "Islam is wholly incompatible with civilized society".
In the US, there are about 13,000 murders and about 95,000 rapes every year (according to nationmaster.com). So since 9/11 it appears we've killed 130,000 of our own and the number of rapes doesn't bear thinking about. According to your logic, where does that leave Christianity, Mr Scarn?
In case you are missing my point, one rape during an Egyptian riot, or a million rapes over ten years in our own country, says very little about the majority religion of either Egypt or the US.
Posted by: Ramsey Badawi | February 15, 2011 at 05:35 PM
CBS certainly shares the blame for not providing adequate security for this reporter. Sadly, in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East, women need to take extra precautions while in public.
Posted by: Atlanta Roofing | February 15, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Many of us have come to know the truth about Islam through reading and dialogue. Lara, coming from the group that refuses the truth, has discovered the same truth we've known in a viciously brutal, demeaning way. PRAY for her that as she recovers physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially, that she will recognize and escape the brainwashing that will surely be forced upon her, raping her yet again, forcing her to submission. PRAY that Lara Logan will receive in her recovery the grace, strength and power to confront and embrace the fear, anger, and rage that she experienced on the 11th of February and channel it into articulation and TRULY open discourse of this thing falsely called "democracy", "liberation", or "religion of peace". PRAY that Lara will escape ALL that is planned for her by the ideology that embraces Islam and, instead, become a powerful voice against Islam.
Posted by: computer support reston dc area | February 15, 2011 at 10:58 PM
"This Logan event is a micro event. 911 was a huge macro event, and still Americans do not believe that Islam is inherently evil."
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Three buildings were explosively demolished on 9-11. And still Americans do not believe that the Talmud is inherently evil.
Posted by: Mentious | February 16, 2011 at 01:51 AM
Lara Logan has been reporting from dangerous spots around the Middle East and adjacent areas for years.
Her team is undoubtedly acutely aware of security and has lots of practice.
We are not dealing with some local Fox street festival novice here. Logan's extensive experience and credentials only highlight the seriousness of this crime.
Posted by: Steve G | February 16, 2011 at 07:29 AM