CBS’s Lara Logan Reveals She Still Struggles With Egyptian Sexual Assault: ‘It Doesn’t Go Away’
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Logan pictured before her attack in Egypt.
It was a story that finally revealed to the world that the “Arab Spring” might not have been as peaceful as some would have liked to think. CBS journalist Lara Logan was viciously sexually assaulted while in a crowd of male protesters in Egypt. They screamed “Jew” as they ran their hands over and through her body and tried to rip off her scalp. She detailed the incident back then, and now, she reveals she still struggles with it.
“People don’t really know that much about (post traumatic stress disorder),” she told the New York Daily News. “There’s something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I’m not.”
“It doesn’t go away,” she added. “It’s not something I keep track of. It’s not predictable like that. But it happens more than I’d like.”
Logan was eventually rescued from the assault by a woman clad in black who wrapper her arms around Logan. Other women eventually closed ranks. But while the physical damage has healed, the emotional scars still exist.
“Your family is critical,” Logan, the married mother of two, said. “You can’t do it alone. My husband is a great support. He understands, he doesn’t hide from it, from what happened. He knows everything, more than anyone, what they did to me.”
“When I’m lying there, waiting for my daughter to go to sleep, I have time to think about things. Those can be dark moments. You ranger through, you have to. You’re aware of how much you have and it’s so much more than what you’ve lost. You have a responsibility. Life is not about dwelling on the bad.”
But despite the residual effects, Logan is fighting. Not only is she fighting to give a prominent voice to the many women who have suffered from sexual assault, she’s also fighting not to be defined by the attack.
“Goddamnit,” Logan said, “I’m not going to give them everything.”
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:45amYes Lara, PTSD does not go away. It may fade, but it might come back in the form of dreams or a feeling.of anxiety or depression. Seek help, get some meds that will help. This is common with anyone who faced death and survived. I imagine she feels a LOT of anger, too.
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:55amThis is precisely why it is so important to be totally out-spoken about WHO and WHAT radical Islam is. Ron Paul, MUST be woken up, and very soon, about the danger he would place the world in with his ignorant understanding regarding this matter!
Report Post »midwesthippie
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:46pmwhomever is responsible for allowing her to be put in that situation should be fired from cbs. to put a pretty blonde American female reporter in the midst of that chaos is criminal.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:09pm.
@midwesthippie
See my post below……….
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:44pmI really feel sorry that she got raped. Having said that, you elitist Media people think you can just pop in and report your news any where on Earth. Learn to think for yourself, liberalism is not a passport.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:14pmIt has to be hard when everyone that you work with and those that you share your ideology with are worshiping the people that raped you.
Report Post »Wakeup Maggie
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:28pmThey‘re a bunch of f’n monkeys. Lara should sue CBS (commie broadcast systems) and go to work for fox. At least they wouldn’t put her in harms way to promote their agenda.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:16pmI’m sure that “peoples’ revolution” the left fell so madly in love with in Egypt doesn’t look so benign to Ms Logan now. Then again..liberals don’t learn easily. Apparently the “enilightened” Ms Logan never knew that western women are looked down up in muslim countries as being loose and easy.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 6:55pmRAPE: it’s what brings OWS and Arab Spring together.
Report Post »db321
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:10pmLara, you were reporting this as a so called peaceful demonstration – If you had read the Bible you would have never gone to report this radical Muslim protest – You Lady, just made it possible for 1000′s of other Women, Jews, and Christians to experience the same, possible worst and even death because of your News Station reports – their Blood is on your head as well!
Before anyone points a finger at Lara – ask yourself – did you support and vote for Obama – the Victims of the Muslim Brotherhood blood is on your head as well.
Report Post »JohnofOregon
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:37pmisn’t this interesting. i had an exchange with our regular blaze commenter, islam appoligist and cair supporter @surhansurhan a couple of days ago on a blaze article. he said that nothing bad said about the 16th century barbarians of the middle east is true; even though i had experienced it the middle east, it is only anecdotle. of course unless a “believer” says it, then it is true (typical cair stuff). i pointed out about logan being raped on film in one of those peace and love protest and as usual, she is a woman, there fore all good islamist believe she is guilty. i also pointed out that cbs and cair are good friends and that why we haven’t heard anything.
a couple of days go by, and now this story. now who believe the left wing media and DHS “is not” monitoring this sight. :)
Report Post »auntbea
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:36amEveryone is afraid. Everyone is afraid for good reason.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:30amWow, a little blame the victim maybe? No one deserves to be treated that way, and when the “muslim” people you have met in the civilized world didn’t try getting away with that kind of behavior, what reason would you have to think all of a sudden in a crowd, they would? She may have been foolish to be there, but until then she had no reason to believe they would become insane and do this. She was a woman doing her job,CBS is the one I blame for sending her. They have done a fair job of hiding who they really are here in the US, but the Trjan horse is already through the gates, and it has already begun to show it’s true colors. I hope she keeps fighting for her own sake, with a lot of prayer and other help she will be ok. I hope she keeps telling it so others get the message of what we are up against. To stand up takes guts, good for her.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:36amQuit trying to justify complete ignorance.
Report Post »Dman12
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:36amBarack Hussein Obama opened the flood gates to allow this Muslim brotherhood idea to flourish in America. Why did we elect America’s biggest enemy as President? What are the criminal elements of treason? Can treason be tried in America anymore?
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:41amOh my goodness.
No one is blaming her for being a victim.
We are questioning her ability to integrate and think for herself. Had she not swallowed the lies of Islam (it is over a decade since 9/11 after all) for the last ten years, she would have never been on those streets.
Many many people warned her to NOT be in the presence of jihading male muslims. She decided to believe her own propaganda and it nearly got her killed.
Report Post »Choctaw25
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:44amJenny, if she did not know that they would do something like this, is an absurd statement. I’m disappointed in you. Anyone with a third grade education knows what a bunch of muslim terrorists are capable of and what they are going to do.
Report Post »NO WOMAN deserves to be treated in the manner that the muslims treat women, but everyone in the MSM keeps attempting to cover-up the truth about how women are viewed in the muslim faith.
mike_trivisonno
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:48am@ JENNY
“…she had no reason to believe they would become insane and do this….”
They are not insane. They are muslim males engaged in Jihad.
Their behavior followed a predictable and sad pattern found throughout the islamic culture. Lara, had she done even basic research, would have discovered this.
Misogyny is institutionalized in the Islamic world. Lara is considered “uncovered meat” and, in their mind, the Islamic mind, she is a whore and a slut and deserved everything she got. In the Islamic Mind, she is the guilty one.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:48amObama Singed an Executive Order (Because Congress or the people would have NEVER voted for this) to bring 60,000 to 80,000 Muslim Somalians to America with NO BACKGROUND checks !!!!
No Doubt in my mind this is a Global Elite Minion and Sabateur of America.
The UN finally grabbed control of America in 1944 (IMF, and est. UN in 1945) under the Bretton Woods Agreement, due to the U.S. Bankruptcy of 1933.
We pesky Americans are getting in the way of their Global Agenda so they are destroying us socially, from within. They want Borders open.
Report Post »Check the UN’s AGENDA 21 Map.
It shows America with No Borders.
They have designated our Border the “LA PAZ 200-mile International zone of Cooperation”
db321
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:27pmJenny you show your ignorance by your statement – If I told you that you can pet my Rattlesnake it doesn’t bite. Would you – NO!
Then you don’t want to know Gods warning in the Bible what these radical Muslims will do once they achieve full power. The only positive – if this is even a positive – is that Jenny will never hear about about the monstrosities that are soon coming from her favorite News Stations CNN – so she can go through her life with a kombajah smile on her face – while Millions are Slaughter becuase of Lara reporting.
Jenny and everyone else that did not heart about the goals of the Radical Muslim from your church – then don’t walk – Run from your Church and get in one that is not afraid to teach Gods Word.
Report Post »db321
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:39pmProbIemSoIver – Great Point – Lord forgive me for making this comment – Whack Up America – Obama is a good and faithful servant of the Qaran – while Americans are trying to be Politically Correct by “going along to get along” Obama is being obedient to the teachings of Mohammed.
Sorry God, we heard your message, but we are not willing as a Nation to carry it out as well as Muslim Jehadest carry out Mohammed message. Those that have read the Bible must conclude that at least Obama is much more obedient to his church.
Report Post »alpha2omega47
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:30amThis incident goes to show you that a media network should not be sending females to these barbaric eastern countries; where a cow has more respect than a female and secondly ~ no woman in their right mind should take an assignment over there. If I were this woman I would sue CBS for millions.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:29amShe works for the Communist Broadcast System and was supporting the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt. That’s just about where my pity for her ended. Sorry.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:42amYes, and I am sure they feel nothing about her or her problems as long as they can just send this “piece” to the “random crime files”…..yeah they will STILL be drones in support of CAIR and say that “muslims are just peaceful sheep hereders trying to survive”……These animals have been empowered by the Lame Stream Media!!!
Report Post »jadedinkc
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:43amMy sentiments exactly.
Report Post »NoNannyState4me
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:23amI feel bad that Lara got assaulted, but am utterly unsurprised. I can only imagine she even has hints of Stockholm Syndrome towards those who assaulted her too…
Dumb.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:23amYou bought into the commie broadcast systems lies and got what was coming to you for putting yourself in that location at that time. You wanted to be one of them and then objected when they treated you like you were,
Report Post »rabblechat
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:22am“They screwed “Jew” as they ran their hands over…” Doesn’t anyone at THE BLAZE proof read?
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:31amThey have no Proof readers,
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:34amThey print it without seeing what they write, then depend on readers to point out their mistakes. Saves money that way
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:20amShe is a good example of what happens to people when they deny that Jihad is real, think that Islam is a religion of peace, and believe the muslims do not seek dominance over all the planet.
I warned her and other non-muslims to not get involved with the Egyptian Intifada protests, that they were in the middle of an event that they did not understand, surrounded by muslim men they should not trust.
Ignorance of Jihad and Islamic culture nearly got her killed.
Report Post »notreally
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:18amHow was she supposed to know how women are treated in Muslim nations? I mean, who knew? Isn’t multiculturalism a wonderful thing? Everything is touchy-feely and GROUP HUG!…until you jump into the water — then you learn that sharks bite.
-Hadis number 789, volume 2, p.114: “An ***, a pig, a Jew, a Magian and a woman annuls a prayer.”
Report Post »-Tabari I:280: “Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid.”
-United Nations Report, 2002: “The report of the Special Rapporteur concerning cultural practices in the family that are violent towards women (E/CN.4/2002/83), indicated that honour killings had been reported in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, Yemen, and other Mediterranean and Persian Gulf countries, and that they had also taken place in western countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom, within migrant communities.”
-2/6/04 asiapacific.amnestyinternational.org: Each year 2 million girls are subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), mostly in Muslim countries.
Mandors
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:18amDon’t worry democracy will cure Egypt once these animals exercise their right to vote.
This has been “Great Moments in Foreign Policy Blunders.” Tune in next week, when North Korea is appeased, and the ISI funds not only the Taliban but Al Qaida too.
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:28amInteresting that Obama lauds the Arab Spring. Now why would a Muslim born anti-semetic anti-Catholic person think the Arab Spring was good? Let me guess.
Report Post »Choctaw25
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:15amStand by America, this type of treatment is already in America and it is going to be the prevailing treatment for women in short order.
Report Post »The Democrat party supports, endorses, encourages this type of treatment of Women. Why is everyone so shocked. CBS loves these type stories.
Barry will sign Sharia Law into place on the first day of his second term, by Executive Order.
ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:25amthe article starts with:
It was a story that finally revealed to the world that the “Arab Spring” might not have been as peaceful as some would have liked to think.
The world ????? NO just ignorant morons !!!!
The phrase “some would have liked” should more more accurately say “liberal sheeple who would have liked”.
Anyone with any intelligence and political knowledge knows what happens when Muslims are the Majority.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:34amThis woman was not street wise. Her only street wisdom is from the yuppie block parties her professional networking group has.
Hopefully this wakes up some of the extremely naive and sheltered Americans.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:09amI wonder if she finally gets it …?
Or does she thinks these Muslims have a right to be mad at the “Jews”
and this was just a “bad case “ of mistaken identity ?
I’m guessing this is the way a lot of “useful idiots” …
Report Post »Will be snapped back to reality from this dangerous Islamic – Cult.
Or not ….They like their swords too.
doomytram
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:07amThe Muslim Brotherhood needs their heads chopped off. The Leftist like Oblamer think the Arab spring is beautiful, where as, the real American’s, those who don’t hate our Country, like Oblamer, think the Arab Spring and this vicious Rape is disgusting. Off with their heads with a 10 foot sword.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:05amYes, but she doesn’t blame her attackers. Taking a cue from her Affirmative Action President, she has come to the realization that it was George Bush’s fault.
Report Post »Macman1138
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:59pmHow true and like the good liberal she is she doesn’t blame them
Report Post »Once again, there is no such thing as radical islam, they are devout.
dadsrootbeer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:04am“Goddamnit,” Logan said, “I’m not going to give them everything.”
Sorry honey, you did. Next time think twice about doing a story like that and stop believing the child king that the Muslim faith is a religion of peace.
Report Post »db321
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:05pmLara, open your stupid Liberal Eyes – I will recite a small part of what the Bible teaches us about both Religion – You be the Judge which applies to ether the Jews or Muslims.
God said, you will thrive in a land of milk and honey – Lara – Muslim or Jews?
God said, you will live by the sword and die by the sword – Lara – Muslim or Jews?
You better pick the right answer because “all” that come against one of these Religions will be tossed into the lake of fire by God himself – Who’s getting tossed into the lake of fire – Lara – Muslim or Jews?
You see Lara – it is not up to what CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS or what Obama says it to be – it will happen the way God says it’s going to happen. He tried to warn you not to go over 2000 years ago – you were ether not taught or you refused to listen.
Lara – you not alone – a lot of Christian also voted for Obama – they to did not listen ether.
Report Post »proliance
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:01am“They screwed “Jew” as they ran their hands over and through her body and tried to rip off her scalp.”
Editor, please fix this ASAP. The double entendre is unacceptable in a sexual assault case.
Report Post »mom24-7
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:14amGlenn, please hire a proof reader. There are so many mistakes in this article it looks like a third grader wrote it. Amateur work.
Report Post »Choctaw25
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:31amYou are so close to being correct it is scary. I have lost so much respect for Glenn over the last year, because of The Blaze. It is very evident that the staff of The Blaze is very very very Democrat and liberal. They were hired from the pool of misfits in New York, so you know they are leftist liberal uneducated fools trying to hide their true colors and keep a job, but the liberal in them keeps popping out.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:00amThese “things” that some call people, might change their ways in time…if given unfettered access to radio/TV/internet from around the world without being censored or controlled by the government or spiritual leaders.
Then they’d see and hear that this is NOT acceptable behavior, that this does NOT happen everywhere, that people HAVE moved on to more civilized ways.
As it stands now…they are told what to think and believe 24/7 and that there IS no other way.
To correct them and their beliefs may take a long time…I say we just nuke them.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:54amLaura Logan ought to go to work for Glenn so she can say what she really feels and let people know the ‘real’ truth about Sharia Law and the disrespect, and horror, women’s lives must be like in that region. I can’t imagine that experience will ever go away.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:50amLara didn’t deserve what happened to her, no woman does. What she and the rest of the world need to understand is this is ACCEPTABLE behaviour for the followers of Islam.
Report Post »ronbo51
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:11amIf Ms Logan was a Muslim women she would have been arrested and tried and found guilty of crimes against Islam and buried to her head and stoned. Remember that Laura. the next time you feel pangs of kinship with the Arabs and their “Spring”
Report Post »Miyegombo Bayartsogt
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 9:56amThis behavior is also acceptable for a lot of Democrats. If that mob had been made up of 10,000 Bill Clinton clones, would the outcome have been different? If the only a few of the Clinton sex stories are true, then liberal hero and former president Bill Clinton is guilty of raping more women than this writhing mass of Muslim men. And the same media forgave him and excused him and said it didn’t really matter.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:49amThink about it babe, Sharia is even worse than the small taste of it you experienced. The crude and animal violence of Sharia will make women like you nothing more than animal property…. like a cow or a goat. Take that message to your next NOW meeting and share the joy of it.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:45am.
This chick need’s a “Darwin Award”.
Put yourself in the middle of 100,000+ Stinking to High Heaven Nasty Muslim Men, wiggling your narrow reported-ette behind, flipping your Blonde Hair & Holding a faloic symbol. And you thought nothing would happen.
Sweetie these People Pour Acid, Beat, Stone & Behead their Kids!!!!!! On a regular basis!! So get over your little Finger Diddle eposide already……….
Report Post »Charles
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:07pmAlthough I empathize with this woman it was a combination of ignorance and arrogance that led to what happened. There is also the politically correct insanity of her manager or producer that kept them from telling her to stay the heck out of that throng of frenzied misogynistic subhumans. And, of course, she wanted to be seen there for posterity. #Fail
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:44amJust having… a Car stolen or your House invaded… feels like a Rape,, makes you insecure, and you never forget. So, an actual Rape must be Worse!
Report Post »pma_guy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:42amI‘m curious Lara why you don’t talk about the issue of muslim men disrespect for women. It’s islam Lara. The core is islam.
Report Post »shirtsbyeric
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:39amThink of the women who live in Egypt and can’t leave. I know Obama doesn’t.
Report Post »shirtsbyeric
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:37amGet used to it. The left is making it easier for Islam to take over the world and your employer CBS is trying to help.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:40amWhat does she think her daughter will face in the future if these jackals aren’t stopped?
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:43amThis is a big fat guess but one must wonder how many Muslims own media outlets. Maybe someone needs to investigate or gather this info. I know Saudi Arabia owns some of FOX.
Report Post »What Americans do not understand yet is the Muslim creep that’s going on. They are silently buying property and businesses everywhere in the US, They are at every level of government.. including WH and DOJ..and now Obama is making it easier for them to get Visas by lying about this being to boost tourism in Florida. GMAB.. Hello.. wake-up everyone.. he stood in front of a castle to make this announcement? Way to send a big signal to Muslims about imperialist America and they got it. He thinks we don’t get his disguised messages. I have a decoder ring and I get it all ( unfortunately for me)
Look around your town. Have the names of hotels changed to Indian names? Does your supermarket offer “ Sharia compliant” items? Mine does
Just like the UK.. These people are taking advantage of our freedoms in order to eventually make this an Islamic country. Heck, didn’t Obama once say this is a Muslim country? What???? and people brushed that off? How stupid we have been.
Where are the women’s rights? Are they silent on treatment/abuse of women for PC reasons?
NOBAMA201258
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:47amSHIRTS- ABC news did a show claiming islam is peace,Diane Sawyer pretended to quote from the qu’ran and it was all BS ! Check out http://www.answeringislam.com.,some unbelievable distortions and lies from abc,you might think diane and the other clown doing the show were closet muslims !
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