While religion and politics might've played something in regard to this I will point out that unfortunately mobs, violence and sexual harassment go hand in hand. Pretty much every Spring break or Championship celebration in the US there are reports of violence and sexual harassment.
Can you recall the last time a female reporter was sexually assaulted while reporting from spring break or a championship celebration in the US? I thought so. Here we have not one, but TWO female reporters who were unfortunate victims of sexual assault.
It's being needlessly specific. Regardless, everybody should be pretty aware by now of the plight of women in the Arab world.
No, it's not. The point here is that these two women were sexually assaulted because they looked foreign. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I did not hear reports about Egyptian women being sexually assaulted there. However, rocketsjudoka - as usual - relativizes what happened and compares it to a spring break or championship celebration and claims that it's normal for such events that sexual assaults occur. If you want to make that comparison, then compare apples to apples. His comparison ignores that these two women were singled out for sexual assault because they looked foreign/dressed differently.
I think it is more relevant to your point that they are *foreigners* rather than that they are reporters. Some dudes going Roethlisberger on a random chick in a bar after their team wins the Superbowl is different from a politically driven flash mob singling out an obvious foreigner to violate.
I noted earlier that Erin Andrews was groped by a college student while reporting on a game. True that wasn't during a championship but she is a reporter and reporters have been sexually assaulted even here in the US.
Are you seriously comparing this to the assault these two women had to endure? If yes, wow. By the way, LOL @ that pic.
And once again you are jumping to conclusions to justify your own biases. As I pointed out there may be political and religious reasons for why this happened but we don't know all the facts. We do know factually though that in mob scenes around the world violence and sexual assault occur. This isn't an apples to oranges comparison. We have mobs for a variety of reasons but they are still mobs whether in Tahrir square or Daytona Beach.
Was it? I recall seeing video of it but that may have been another student at another university. I will see if I can find that.
Would you consider a guy feeling up a women's breast without her consent to not be sexual assault? Its not on the same level but it is sexual assault. Also there are plenty of reports of rapes and other things that happen in mob scenes to women in the US.
Why don't you go start another thread about how you were in Indonesia and milk and honey were flowing and everyone was hugging trees and that's why everything must be great there...
Why don't you make more attempts to belittle a real experience in a predominantly Muslim nation because it doesn't fit in with the narrative you've constructed about the way Muslims are.
Contrary to how you apparently separate the world into black and white, I did not speak about Muslims in general here. I asked a question, and before those I asked could answer it, the two usual apologists and relativists rocketsjudoka and FranchiseBlade go to work.
Sexual assault is a very different thing than groping. Usually implies rape or some sort of penetration. However, in the egypt case, reports indicated it did not involve sexual in that sense, but more of the groping kind. And she was beaten. Still a vicious attack. Regardless, I just leave it as a vicious attack that involved some sort of violation. I don't think Muslims should be demonized for it, and I think that's your point, to which I agree. Not sure if you can draw equivalency to the u.s. though
I can't find the video and I may have been confusing the incident I was thinking of with another incident. That said there are several incidents that I can find of inappropriate behavior directed to female reporters here in the US and other western countries. <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DdDGYsYXHKc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nSBRknqZLVM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I will agree these are more humorous than violent but shows that female reporters are sexually harassed.
