Journalist Makes Shocking, Graphic Claim of Sexual Assault Against Egyptian Police
- Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:37am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A U.S.-based Egyptian journalist has made a shocking claim that could further undermine claims that the Egyptian revolution is the ultimate example of a peaceful and democratic revolution. Mona Eltahawy — who has appeared on channels such as CNN, has written for the Washington Post, and isa former Mid East correspondent for Reuters — took to Twitter to describe a graphic account of being captured, detained, and sexually assaulted within the last 24 hours.
According to her Twitter account, she was surrounded by Egyptian police who then grabbed her breasts and her genital area:
HuffPo sums up her ordeal:
She reported that she had been been detained for 12 hours by the interior ministry and military intelligence, during which time she was sexually assaulted by five or six men. “5 or 6 surrounded me, groped and prodded my breasts, grabbed my genital area and I lost count how many hands tried to get into my trousers,” she tweeted.
She spent hours blindfolded before finally being released with an apology from military intelligence but no explanation for why she was detained.
In addition, she said that both her arms had been broken as a result of the incident, and tweeted a picture of them in casts:
A U.S. embassy representative in Cairo told the Guardian in London that the reports of the incident were “very concerning” and that “US embassy consulate officers are engaging Egyptian authorities.”
Eltahawy’s ordeal brings back memories of another graphic, and violent, sexual assault on a journalist undertaken by an Egyptian mob earlier this year. Then, the victim was CBS correspondent Lara Logan. She was singled out, her clothes ripped off, and described being “raped” by her attackers’ hands.
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Comments (106)
madarain
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:02pmEvery time I see a muslim woman in America, I privately mourn her enslavement, but challenging their emprisoned state is likely to have them defending their abusers, pretending that they are the enlightened ones, while we, who mourn their loss of humanity are the oppressors for wishing better, freer, more equal lives for them.
Muslim Woman, You are not property, you are not slaves, you are not less worthy. Throw off the chains of slavery that this poisoned system has in store for you…Be free. God loves you.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:42pmYou may mourn for her but she has no pitty for us filthy Americans. You can’t feel sorry for evil! Most embrace Islam.
Report Post »shift
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:01pmIts a sad thing she was sexually assaulted but Im not sure i really feel that sorry for her since she knew she was going into a muslim country that treats women like animals, it was her choice, its not as if she was over there under mandate or that she had to take this job. Secondly the media like her reports only what the left wants to portray how great this revolution is and how the Muslim botherhood are peaceful and different than other muslims meanwhile her same ilk will spend their whole career looking for stories to trash America‘s military or how America is nothing more than an Imperialistic regime seeking to further expand it’s power and control. If she were reporting on how the mu-slims this entire time during the “Arab Spring” have been attacking christian churches in Egypt before and after, burning them and bombing them and the many other attrocities that only point to one thing that the Muslim religion is evil at it’s core, then maybe we would have some sympathy for her.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:28pmshift: Which country has had more women murdered America or the entire Middle East? Who really has the issue shift? lol
You idiots are just so engulfed in the propaganda aren’t you? So blind that you simply can’t see!
Report Post »Krazy_Kreepy_Ketchup
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:34pm@ChiefGeorge
Amen to that!
Report Post »purplehippo
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:41pmAmen.
Report Post »lawrench
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:13pmUnfortunately, there are groups of people in America that think that we are the rapist. They think that Isreal is doing this to Muslims. I often wonder if the leftist in this country who protest for Palestine and other Arab countries, really know what they are protesting for? What if Sharia law was here in the USA? What if those very same liberals would protest against the USA under Sharia? If this country was under Sharia Law, Gloria Allred would be stoned to death, homosexuals would be hanged, people who did not convert to Islam would be beheaded. All you have to do for proof of this is to look to Iran and Yemen. Yet it is Isreal and America that is the problem with the world. I fear for this country! All I know, we all have to prepare for the final crusade that is coming. Prepare your families, educate them to the true nature of Islam that is being taught. Women, celebrate your freedoms that you have now, if Islam is allowed to rule the land, you will never see freedom again.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:37pmThe more I learn about Islam, and I’ve learned more than enough at this point, whenever I see a Muslim, man or woman, I pity them, and question if they are sane, and not a cowXrd, why they remain a Muslim. They are no different than the abused spouse who refuses to leave their abuser. Add to the fact that they are wasting their entire earthly life, they are also doXmed in the next life having followed the religion of SXtan on earth. What else but pity could one feel for such pathetic creatures?
pavepaws
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 6:21pmNice shirt.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 7:26amI’ve only had problems with one muslim woman. Most, I smile at and they smile back (I don’t know any personally, I’m speaking of meeting them in public). I met one woman at the grocery store once that if I read eyes right, she’d just as soon stabbed me as looked at me any longer. I was wearing a cute tank top and capri’s, and she was in the full garb, only face showing. she looked me all the way down, then all the way up and shot daggers through her eyes at me. Some are non-practicing Muslims or those who escaped. My PCM is a muslim woman, and shared with me that her father abused her, that’s why she left her home country to come to America.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 8:10amNotice her T shirt says “Love me, squeeze me, take me home”-probably not the best to wear when complaining about being groped, etc. Shoulde have turned it inside out.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:17pmThe unteachable liberal idiots..still clinging to their romanticized notion of a peaceful “peoples’” revolution in Egypt. Typical liberals who believe all cultures are neutral and on equal standing while ignoring reality. Islam sees western women as loose and easy. It sees all women as property. This is why this continues to happen. This is why rapes on Nordic women have spiked in Nordic countries where they’re committed by muslim immigrant men. Utterly unteachable..I cannot understand how adherence to an ideology can blind these supposedly educated cretins to the point of risking physical harm to themselves and they still won’t learn from the experience. Utter idiots.
Report Post »mklokow
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:00pmI know that not everyone in the world is bad. BUT the middle east, for the most part, is a third world country with archaic and brutal laws. Laws that would send this country into civil war if we acted in the same manner. The bad people are not radical. There are believers in their faith and traditions. The minute we recognize that the quicker we will admit to the problems we will face.
We, as a country, are hypocrites! We espouse and demand our rights as human beings yet we do business with countries that hold NONE of our values, and in the process support those countries laws and practices. I applaud the bravery of people like Mona, but common sense needs to over-ride bravery! There is NO story in the middle east that is worth the price you paid Mona… They do NOT deserve our support or our pity. We as a country fought and died for our rights. Sometimes brother against brother, neighbor against neighbor.. I say we sit back and let them do the same!
Report Post »newmexicopatriots
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:10pmAmen! I completely agree with you. I wish more people had the intelligence and the guts to realize that what you said is completely accurate. We need to not only say that we find these actions “disturbing” (our State Department), but we need to ACT! as a country and as individuals.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 2:19pmThere’s no rape or murder in America thank God right? America is the home of Democracy! Our streets are clean and our people are good! Never mind the fact that porn is fastest growing industry in the West.. Our politicians are tough and they love to drop bombs on civilians.. No drug abuse in our streets either.. Kids are so very well educated in our wonderful public school system.. I mean it couldn’t get any better than the good ole USA could it?
Just for fun how many homicides have we averaged over say the past 10 years in the good ole USA? Anyone care to take a stab? Well I’d guess far more than in Egypt or Iran? lol
You blind idiots! Your nation is rotten to the core and you must go look for Arabs to scapegoat in order to maintain a sense of superiority?? How sick is that? Will we ever turn our focus upon our own despicable crumbling corrupt rotting society?
Report Post »Fearnone
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 5:02pmHey Techeng, we are trying to return our country to morality and values by doing it the lawful way by voting out the corruption. We will not give up this fight against progressive liberals, communists, atheists, and Moslems who stand in our way at every turn. We will win. You can help, get out of the way, or you can just get your @ss out of good ol’ USA.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:32amTwo words…… Lara Logan.
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:58pmShe has some pretty far-Left leaning credentials. I wonder if this incident will wake her up to the reality she and her fellow Liberal journalists keep trying to cover up about Islam.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 12:21pmSlayer..she won’t even blink. She’s so marinated in leftist thought that she will not see Islam for the mysoginistic, oppressive cult it is. Liberals see all cultures and beliefs as being on equal terms. She will not acknowledge that Islam sees western women as cheap and easy and all women as property.
Report Post »felix
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:42pmMuslims practice the regilion of the devil. Ya think the devil respect women or anyone
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:54pmThe devil can get into the heart of anyone.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:56pm…if they let him, that is
Report Post »Jezreel
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:35pmWomen need to realize that it is a man’s world still, no matter how unfair life is and no matter how women’s groups try to usurp authority, they need a lesson in reality that this kind of treatment will never stop.
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:43pmThat right. There is your damn Islam, the peaceful religion.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:58pmBoise…I’m sure glad that never happens in this country.
Report Post »newmexicopatriots
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:05pmRegarding “Jezreel’s” comment that it is still a mans world… maybe, but that has NO relevance to that FACT that what happened to her is wrong, downright evil, and a perfect example of what is wrong in the Arab world. I am sickened by your comment, but even more sickened by what happened.
Report Post »Kathleen
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:19pmIt is God‘s world with God’s rules. Men who think they rule it are fools.
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:34pmIn Muslim culture, women are looked upon as baby machines, with no more rights than a dog.
Report Post »The men mutilate their women, destroying their sexuality. then, they “marry” unmutilated little girls and molest young boys. This perverted version of humanity is most probably responsible for their violent rage. They have never known a loving relationship with an adult woman. They “can’t handle it”.
Busterman
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:30pmYawn….. another reporter claiming to be abused. zzzzzzzzzzzzz She should have climbed oin the roof with the college pukes and thown some cocktails at the police, that will teach them, oh and then write a story about how you were abused. Sile for the camera…….
Report Post »newmexicopatriots
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:31pmRegarding BUSTERMAN’s post…. Wow. So you think it’s ok this happened to her? Because this is a “Mans World”, and she should have just got away from the situation? She is over there reporting on the situation in Egypt so that people like you can actually know what is going on, as opposed to what Al Jezeera would tell us (everything but the truth). What is the matter with people here?
Report Post »jerannco
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:30pmThere are many ways to say “Get out and stay out!” This is the ‘radical’ version. The ‘fanatical’ version can be much worse. you cannot reason with religious psychos with guns. Lesson learned?
Report Post »newmexicopatriots
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:34pmMaybe I am misunderstanding, but are you saying she shouldn’t have been there? Why? Because she’s a woman? Or is it because she is American? Oh, Wait! It must be because she is not Muslim, that’s it! (insert Sarcasm here) This never should have happened, no one deserves to be raped and brutalized, especially by those who are supposed to be upholding the law, and keeping the peace.
Report Post »ArabChristian
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 10:55pmThe guys who did this aren’t religious. In fact, these same guys routinely do this to Muslim fundamentalists who step out of line.
Report Post »kapnkd
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:28pmAll in the name of Allah!! Such a religion of peace or is it “piece”???
Report Post »jerannco
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:28pmThere are many ways to say “Get out and stay out!” This is the ‘radical’ version. The‘ fanatical’ one could be much worse. You cannot reason with religious psychos. Lesson learned?
Report Post »ilikai
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:27pmYou are a female in a muslim run country, that means you aren’t worth crap!! Less than human. Why are you surprised that you got treated that way?
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:24pmJust further proof Muslim men are nothing pigs. What news agency in their right mind would send women into a Muslim country not expecting something like this to happen. I guess they need to start putting bacon in their bra’s and panties. Get those women out of there.
Most likely these are Liberal reporters thinking because they are on the Egyptians side they won’t be hurt. This is dangerous thinking and I sure hope these women have learned a valuable lesson; Muslims are not your friend.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:18pmThese journalists have these dilusions that it’s there calling to “get the story”. So they put themselves in harms way and then complain that they were attacked. Stop trying to make youself out to be something you’re not. Don’t put yourself in situations with the mindset that “the world needs me there” Get over yourself.
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:34pmYeah, I guess it would be too much to ask that men NOT rape women, it’s her fault for being assaulted, and raped, by the very people that say women should be kept pure and yet they are the ones to defile her. It‘s a man’s right to rape women at will there, so women should just leave that country, so the men will be the only ones there. They rape women and little girls/boys as well, and wow, those ones are not even journalists, most of the time just a family member, they just can’t keep it in their pants… what a religion…. /sarcasm off
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:02pmGHOST Common sense and personal responsibility. Thats my point. I don’t put myself in situations that I know could and would most likely go wrong. These are savages, not men. What would make her think it would be ok for her to get around them? Was it their track record of kindness and humanitarian efforts?
Report Post »newmexicopatriots
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 1:54pmWould you be saying the same thing if the reporter was a man? You are a jerk.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:16pmWhy is she smiling? Did she break the record?
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:23pmIts probably because they lost her shamwow in the attack.
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:37pm@JLGUNNER the supporter of rape….go pander yourself on the nambla website or something. We don’t condone raping women and children here. It‘s really funny isn’t it that radical muslim men rape women and children, you are one sick person.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on November 25, 2011 at 6:51amI don‘t see the wording that she was raped other than the reference to Lara Logan’s tragic ordeal. Sexual assault is no tht esame as rape. Not to make light of this woman’s story -if one reducess the number of attackers described and the length of her detainment – sounds pretty much like your regular TSA airport screening.
And btw – why are there quotes arounds the word “rape” in the line mentioning Lara Logan? Those quotes do not denote a quotation but rather sarcasm or seem to be saying that Lara was not really raped, as in“ so called rape”….
Report Post »Eyeball
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:11pmBarbarians.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:06pmShe must be lying. Hillary said this was a great thing for Egypt and you know she never ever lies. This woman was probably a tea partier and raped herself!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:06pmShe should have worn her burkha and stayed home – That is the culture she is defending… Why would she not adhere to it?
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:21pmI hear Ya, she’ll be back on her knees in no time (facing east of course).
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:05pmI don’t know if Blaze can post this one since it is in Hebrew but the video is still all one needs to see. It shows so-called “Palestinians,” almost certainly Muslims, and how they treat man’s best friend. There is an English site for this site Ynetnews.com if someone finds the same video there let Blaze know.
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4150879,00.html
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:13pmI’d beat those punks like a drum at an OWS rally!
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:05pmJust following directions on the tee-shirt!
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:04pmLove the shirt, must have bought it on http://www.newt2012
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:03pmAll this talk about being shocked over this. Give me a break! Really! Who is shocked by this? Who is surprised? It’s every day life over there.
Tip for journalists;
Report Post »If you don’t want to be felt up or raped or beaten, don’t insert yourself into a situation where everyone around you is a rapist.
UlyssesP
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:51amI’m shocked at such graphic claims….
Report Post »chips1
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:50amSo I guess this means Obama is out-sourcing TSA jobs.
Report Post »neolyph
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:07pmThat’s awful. Funny as hell…..but awful. lol
Report Post »mtnhimike
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 3:07pmgotta love it ! Great line.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:44amThis is what Democracy looks like…Wise up young lady. Thank God we live in a Republic….For now at least. No telling what we will have if we get 4 more years of Obama. Probably…drum roll please…Democracy.
We do NOT want a Democracy!
Report Post »Rebuild the Republic and kick the Marxist Communists to the curb forever!!
HorseCrazy
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:42amat what point do women realize that muslim countires are NOT safe for them? these animals are not your friends. animals is too kind a word for these muslim men. may their journey to hell be fast and painful.
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 11:59amMaybe he was Jewish? Don’t jump to conclusions. The Blaze definitely informs us each and every time there is a rape or murder in Israel you know… and certainly keeps us informed of the Jewish slave trade… Thank you Blaze!
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on November 24, 2011 at 12:40pm@techengineer11 with a name like that one would think you could read and comprehend. They were egyptian military, as far as I know they don’t allow Jews in the Egyptian military. That would be like the KKK accepting Arfrican Americans. Go peddle your anti-semitism, and radical muslim hate elsewhere.
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