Planned Egyptian Demonstration In Support Of Lara Logan Met With Opposition By Egyptians

by Alex Alvarez | 11:08 am, March 3rd, 2011

» 23 comments

A protest planned by Egyptian-American activist Karim Mohy, who hopes the demonstration will put pressure on the Egyptian government to bring CBS correspondent Lara Logan‘s attackers to justice, is being met with some opposition.

You may recall that, on the night former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Logan was attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of men in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. While Logan’s assault – as well as both the public and media’s reaction to it – have been an ongoing topic of conversation here in the U.S., it seems that the same can’t be said in the country where she was attacked.

According to Mohy, news of what happened to Logan is not widely known throughout Egypt and, so far, response to his proposed protest hasn’t been entirely positive. In fact, MyFoxNY.com reports that a Facebook group meant to draw attention to the protest has drawn comments expressing disappointment that an assault sustained by a foreign white woman is garnering so much international attention and outrage while those encountered by Egyptian women on a daily basis go mostly ignored. You might remember that former NYU fellow Nir Rosen attempted to use a similar argument as an excuse for his Tweets mocking Logan’s attack.

h/t MyFoxNY.com

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BatBoy

According to Mohy, news of what happened to Logan is not widely known throughout Egypt and, so far, response to his proposed protest hasn’t been entirely positive.

The world is not a nice place…it can get real ugly. … and NO … we do not need to be their friends.
Atticus Draco

BatBoy said:
and NO … we do not need to be their friends.

lol
Atticus Draco

BatBoy said:
and NO … we do not need to be their friends.

CAN WE AT LEAST APOLOGIZE TO ‘EM?!?
Pablo

Atticus Draco said:
CAN WE AT LEAST APOLOGIZE TO ‘EM?!?

Of course we can! But whatever you do, don’t draw any conclusions about them.
BatBoy

Atticus Draco said:
CAN WE AT LEAST APOLOGIZE TO ‘EM?!?

To who?
Atticus Draco

BatBoy said:
To who?

hell,, the whole frickin’ Middle East
HELL SAY WE’RE SORRY BEFORE IT GETS TO $5 A GALLON!
I DONT KNOW WTF IS TAKING HIM SO LONG
SAY WE’RE SORRY GDAMNIT!!!!
Atticus Draco

WE ARE SORRY THAT WE BROUGHT A GOOD LOOKIN’ WHITE JOURNALIST TO COVER YOUR $HIT!
COULD YOU PLEASE DROP IT BACK DOWN TO $3 A GAL PLZ!
OBAMA WAS MADE TO SAY THAT
- TELL ME AINT!
TheZeitgeist

I think Logan got whacked in mob instigated by government-goon types. She was deported from country by them, undoubtedly told not to come back, and – what with Logan being who she is – she came back anyways.

I think that pissed somebody off real, real bad in Egyptian security apparatus that had detained her before. Might’ve even been a little personal with some of those characters. So she was definitely being followed/watched as soon as she got back in the country, and when Hosni went down those guys following her took their chance to ‘teach her a lesson’ type-smackdown.

But with internal security being involved, that would explain the information vacuum in Egypt. It is really strange that in a huge public setting with hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of camera-widgets active, there isn’t even one incidental appearance of Logan on any footage. No witnesses. No press. And the USA sending diplomats and then….nothing. I wonder if that story of Logan will ever be told. Not the ‘what’ of her ordeal, but the ‘who.’
Atticus Draco

TheZeitgeist said:
But with internal security being involved, that would explain the information vacuum in Egypt. It is really strange that in a huge public setting with hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of camera-widgets active, there isn’t even one incidental appearance of Logan on any footage. No witnesses. No press. And the USA sending diplomats and then….nothing. I wonder if that story of Logan will ever be told. Not the ‘what’ of her ordeal, but the ‘who.’

Apparently ,, the only way to get to these people,,
is through facebook,,
DID ANYONE POST IT THERE?!?!?
TheZeitgeist

Atticus Draco said:
Apparently ,, the only way to get to these people,,
is through facebook,,
DID ANYONE POST IT THERE?!?!?

Post what?
Atticus Draco

TheZeitgeist said:
Post what?

JESUS,,, the news reports of Lara Logan!!!
THAT WAY THEY’D KNOW WHY THE REST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD IS NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT HER GETTING RAPED!
You know,, coz they contend FACEBOOK was their savior in all this!!
facebook informed ‘em to riot
Atticus Draco

Atticus Draco said:
JESUS,,, the news reports of Lara Logan!!!
THAT WAY THEY’D KNOW WHY THE REST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD IS NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT HER GETTING RAPED!
You know,, coz they contend FACEBOOK was their savior in all this!!
facebook informed ‘em to riot

it doesnt matter tho,, EVEN if it was on facebook,,
a majority of ‘em,, AND I’M TALKIN’ ABOUT THE EGYPTIANS SLOW ONES,,
if you ASK ‘EM,, “Lara Logan,, WHO THE HELL IS THAT?!”
“Nah,, we dont know no Lara Logan”
“OUR PEOPLE WOULDNT DO THAT”

ARE ALL GONNA CLAIM,,
Atticus Draco

they are gonna act like Sgt Schultz
And we all know,, the news of Lara spread through there like wildfire
TheZeitgeist

Atticus Draco said:
JESUS,,, the news reports of Lara Logan!!!
THAT WAY THEY’D KNOW WHY THE REST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD IS NOT TOO HAPPY ABOUT HER GETTING RAPED!
You know,, coz they contend FACEBOOK was their savior in all this!!
facebook informed ‘em to riot

I don’t know if you’ve ever been over in that neck of the woods, but we hear Facebook was a huge deal because Facebook is huge deal for us. Its not that big a deal as has been made out to be for most Egyptians, most who are running dial-up watching Al Jazeera load…really really slowly. Everyone who’s connected etc. knows about Lara Logan. Hate to say it, but most people there don’t care even if they do know. It was bad, but I think most Egyptians think they’ve got bigger fish to fry right now.
Atticus Draco

TheZeitgeist said:
I don’t know if you’ve ever been over in that neck of the woods, but we hear Facebook was a huge deal because Facebook is huge deal for us. Its not that big a deal as has been made out to be for most Egyptians, most who are running dial-up watching Al Jazeera load…really really slowly. Everyone who’s connected etc. knows about Lara Logan. Hate to say it, but most people there don’t care even if they do know. It was bad, but I think most Egyptians think they’ve got bigger fish to fry right now.

well, you know,, 6o mins,, cnn,, even on fox,, attributed the main reason that the Egyptians were so easy at organizing protests was due to FACEBOOK
that’s where they got their orders from,, so to speak
where the posted pictures of brutality in the streets,, etc etc
Atticus Draco

Atticus Draco said:
well, you know,, 6o mins,, cnn,, even on fox,, attributed the main reason that the Egyptians were so easy at organizing protests was due to FACEBOOK
that’s where they got their orders from,, so to speak
where the posted pictures of brutality in the streets,, etc etc

here’s one report from 60 mins
Extra: Tunisia and Facebook
Atticus Draco

Atticus Draco said:
here’s one report from 60 mins
Extra: Tunisia and Facebook

i couldnt quickly find the one for Egypt
but trust me,,, facebook was highly touted in that one too
it was literally the only place where they could post videos!
TheZeitgeist

Atticus Draco said:
well, you know,, 6o mins,, cnn,, even on fox,, attributed the main reason that the Egyptians were so easy at organizing protests was due to FACEBOOK
that’s where they got their orders from,, so to speak
where the posted pictures of brutality in the streets,, etc etc

I think what that was is one kid with the Facebook told five friends, who told five friends, etc. But not everyone’s plugged into Facebook. Look at the Logan Protest page on Facebook. 289 Likes?

And I’m guessing a lot of CNN, 60 Minutes, etc. perception of Facebook and Twitter etc. is because those chumps live on Facebook and Twitter anymore. They’re seeing what they want to see. I mean, that Rosen fool got lit up in seconds of his Twitter idiocy, but no Egyptians even noticed that it seems.

One other thing, a lot of what goes on with Egyptians on the internet is in Arabic, so you’ve got a barrier of sorts there.
justanotherconservative

Atticus Draco said:
SAY WE’RE SORRY GDAMNIT!!!!

f *ck them. i’ll pay 20 bucks a gallon before i kowtow to any of the arabs.
Dem4Ever

POTUS, please help us! Can’t you hear the cries of your people!? Go to our enemies and make peace, oh great and merciful POTUS! Use you magic words and apologetic ways. We are your sheep. Shephard us to safety, POTUS!
CAconservative

Wouldn’t demonstrating against CBS be more to the point? The people who made the idiotic decision that sent her into harms way in the first place. She would do well to sue CBS for gross-negligence.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nanda-Kiran/100000814069098 Nanda Kiran

That Egyptian women similarly treated remain beyond the gaze of print/ electronic media is no justification to treat the foreign journalist LARA LONGON so inhumanly. Women if not teated honourably is sure to cause irreparable damage to the posterity. Preposterous attempt to turn a deaf ear to the horrondus injuries sustained by Logon does not augur well for the country renowned world over as the mother of civilization.
K.C.WALJEE, VADODARA
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