Logan was covering the celebration that erupted in Tahrir Square following the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on February 11. She reported for about an hour without any trouble.
The atmosphere in the square was festive, like a party, she said, until all of a sudden, it wasn't. An Arabic-speaking member of Logan's crew abruptly said she needed to leave.
"I was told later that they were saying, 'Let's take her pants off,'" said Logan, 40, about men in the crowd around her.
At first, Logan said she tried to yell, but that her screams "turned them into a frenzy."
"I didn't even know that they were beating me with flagpoles and sticks and things because I couldn't even feel that ... the sexual assault was all I could feel -- was their hands raping me over and over and over again."
Logan felt men pull her hair, trying to rip away her scalp and tear at her limbs, her muscles. Her clothes were shredded.
The brutal attack went on for some 25 minutes, CBS reported.
At some point, she was dragged by the mob until it was stopped by a fence, near to where a group of Egyptian women was sitting.
Finally, some Egyptian soldiers fought their way through the crowd with batons, Logan said. One threw her over his back and took her to a tank. She was reunited with her crew and soldiers drove them back to their hotel, CBS said.
The major problem with taking people on a first come first serve basis is that it encourages selfish people to come. People willing to step ahead of families who are actually in need. People willing to break immigration laws. People willing to lie to get what they want. You end up with a distilled group of the worst. These same selfish people are the people who are going to harass women or join a group like ISIS.
Now compound that with the way Germany has been actually dealing with it's refugee crisis. The response from Germany in setting up housing and jobs has been almost non-existent. So you've got a situation with a bunch of young men with nothing to do but start trouble. If you took large groups of young men from any race/religion, you'd see the same result. Idle hands.
I just watched a great Vice bit on how Germany has been using these vouchers to house people. Essentially each voucher is worth $40 and everyone who doesn't have permanent housing gets one everyday. The vouchers are supposed to pay for hostels. So what the hostel owners have been doing is cramming as many people as possible into a room, and then hiding everything when the inspectors come by. They then redeem the vouchers. Some are making millions.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure what Germany expected. That hundreds of thousands of people would just spontaneously find jobs and housing? Europe already had a problem with a growing extremist right wing in response to the EU. Now were likely to see them take their anger out on innocent refugees. This is all the result of short sighted politicians attempting to drum up support by making decisions without exploring the long term consequences.
Well Merkel is one of the most respected politicians around, I think she'll have some leeway.
The fact of the matter is, regardless of race, religion or creed, you put enough desperate dudes together in a confined area and bad things are going to happen.
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The major problem with taking people on a first come first serve basis is that it encourages selfish people to come. People willing to step ahead of families who are actually in need. People willing to break immigration laws. People willing to lie to get what they want. You end up with a distilled group of the worst. These same selfish people are the people who are going to harass women or join a group like ISIS.
Now compound that with the way Germany has been actually dealing with it's refugee crisis. The response from Germany in setting up housing and jobs has been almost non-existent. So you've got a situation with a bunch of young men with nothing to do but start trouble. If you took large groups of young men from any race/religion, you'd see the same result. Idle hands.
I just watched a great Vice bit on how Germany has been using these vouchers to house people. Essentially each voucher is worth $40 and everyone who doesn't have permanent housing gets one everyday. The vouchers are supposed to pay for hostels. So what the hostel owners have been doing is cramming as many people as possible into a room, and then hiding everything when the inspectors come by. They then redeem the vouchers. Some are making millions.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure what Germany expected. That hundreds of thousands of people would just spontaneously find jobs and housing? Europe already had a problem with a growing extremist right wing in response to the EU. Now were likely to see them take their anger out on innocent refugees. This is all the result of short sighted politicians attempting to drum up support by making decisions without exploring the long term consequences.
Yet not one of these points justifies sexual assault on women.
It's almost as if you are blaming Germany for not creating a bunch of jobs. The fact they opened their borders to these people is already a life changing gift. What's the answer in your eyes? Lay off a bunch of German citizens so people who have contributed exactly zero to the country over the course of history have something to keep them from robbing and raping their citizens?
Well its not as though they could have transported them all by train to nice orderly and organized temporary camps to segregate them from the regular population.
I dont think anybody is falling for that one again.
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Yet not one of these points justifies sexual assault on women.
It's almost as if you are blaming Germany for not creating a bunch of jobs. The fact they opened their borders to these people is already a life changing gift. What's the answer in your eyes? Lay off a bunch of German citizens so people who have contributed exactly zero to the country over the course of history have something to keep them from robbing and raping their citizens?
I'm not justifying the acts of the assaulters or defending them in any way. I also stated that many (I don't mean the majority or even a large proportion) of the migrants are amoral people who are there because they are willing to break laws and step in front of people who genuinely need help.
The issue is that no one responded early enough to the crisis. Assad had been bombing protestors for years, ISIS had been operating for years, and everyone looked the other way. Then a natural and inevitable result of this, a child drowning as he tries to escape Syria, spurs a movement to accept hundreds of thousands of people unconditionally and without proper vetting. This was an attempt to undo the humanitarian disaster that was already there, but it was the wrong decision.
Instead of just letting millions of people into Europe, the proper course of action was to look for a real solution, and that will take a lot of time and genuine international cooperation. Unfortunately, during that time more people will suffer, but that's the consequence of not acting sooner. That's not the consequence of refusing to let in mass migrants. No matter how many mass migrants you let in, there will always be more until you address the issues creating those migrants. The people in Germany now aren't any better off now than they were in the refugee camp in Turkey. The massive flow of people attempting to get in hasn't waned either.
And I don't think this is just Germany's fault. It's the result of every world government acting selfishly and/or just looking the other way.
The fact of the matter is, regardless of race, religion or creed, you put enough desperate dudes together in a confined area and bad things are going to happen.
I don't think "desperate dudes in a confined area" has much to do with group sexual assault. You have to assume college students, athletes, and rich kids are just as capable as desperate dudes. What does matter here is that globally there is probably a connection with gang rape and differing race; specifically most gang rapes are committed by people of the same race against people of a different race. Like sports teams and fraternities and armies, race creates a gang mentality.
Also, the same thing happened last year in the UK and was also covered up by the main media sources.
I don't think "desperate dudes in a confined area" has much to do with group sexual assault. You have to assume college students, athletes, and rich kids are just as capable as desperate dudes. What does matter here is that globally there is probably a connection with gang rape and differing race; specifically most gang rapes are committed by people of the same race against people of a different race. Like sports teams and fraternities and armies, race creates a gang mentality.
Also, the same thing happened last year in the UK and was also covered up by the main media sources.
Those aren't refugees, they are permanent residents of Japan with a Gaijin Card like me. Kurds fighting Turks in Japan may seem odd but it was a hot tempered situation at the time. Think of Egyptians vs Isrealis in Calgary (I think I can recall something along those lines awhile ago).
On that note, I have been here since 2012 and am adjusting just fine. Love it here, couldn't imagine being anywhere else really. 日本が大好き！
When I was in Athens, there was a group of African migrants going around using threats to get money from tourists. My wife and I experienced it first hand. Not just men though, women were involved.
The sad thing is that this behaviour hurts the peaceful migrants that want nothing more than to be integrated.
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When I was mugged in Brussels, the police said that it was likely Moroccan gangs/groups that operated in the area. It's a big issue in the EU where they have opened all their borders to aid commerce and their economy (trying to mirror the US) but it has also created a situation where a lot of migrants and crime can travel and expand freely.
Having read about this and thinking on it some more, I have a number of questions.
Anti-muslim sentiment is high in Germany, especially amongst older and more conservative ethnic Germans. Are these events being sensationalized?
Why would the news media cover up the story? On whose orders? How could the story be contained on social media? Could be it took a few days for a pattern to emerge that could be reported on.
Understand that in Germany the whole country goes out on the streets at midnight to light fireworks and drink champagne. In a large city like Koln, is it unusual to have 90 arrests on New Years Eve? Of those 90 arrests, there was one rape and a few gropings reported, and the rest of the arrests were petty crimes. Of course one rape or groping is one too many, but what evidence is there that there was a coordinated plan to sexually assault women? What evidence is there that there was a coordinated assault by 1,000 muslim men?
German police say New Year's assaults may be linked to criminal network
A more nuanced picture of what happened in the New Year's Eve chaos outside the Cologne train station emerged Wednesday.
Police said about 1,000 men gathered there and that smaller groups surrounded individual women, harassed them and stole their belongings. Police do not believe all 1,000 men were involved in the attacks.
About 90 people filed criminal complaints, though police have not said how many of them were women who were sexually assaulted. At least one woman said she was raped.
Police said some of the assaults in Cologne appeared similar to incidents that have been reported over the past two years in Duesseldorf, where men have groped women to distract them before stealing their belongings. The two cities are 40 kilometres apart.
Markus Niesczeri, a spokesman for Duesseldorf police, said that since the start of 2014, officers there have identified more than 2,000 suspects of North African origin in connection with organized thefts, though he did not say how many.
Authorities have cautioned that the nationality and residency status of the Cologne suspects is still unknown, since no one has been arrested.
Cologne's police chief, Wolfgang Albers, said that a quarter of the complaints made were related to sexual harassment or groping, with many others pertaining to theft of purses, wallets and mobile phones. He said that smaller groups of men repeatedly emerged from a crowd of about 1,000 young men to surround women, harass them and steal from them. According to the Cologne daily Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, many of the presumed perpetrators are suspected of being from a large group of men that has attracted the attention of police in the past several months. Prior to New Year's Eve, the group had been involved in theft and petty crimes in Cologne nightlife districts.
Groups critical of Islam and foreigners have been quick to seek to appropriate the events in Cologne for their own purposes. Pegida, for example, the Islamophobic movement that got its start in Dresden, has posted several comments about the Cologne attacks on its numerous Facebook sites, with supporters responding in a predictably offensive manner.
Many German politicians commenting on Tuesday about the events in Cologne have been careful to calibrate their responses so as to avoid playing into the hands of right-wing Islamophobes. "We will not tolerate organized groups of men from North Africa that debase defenseless women with brazen sexual attacks," said Ralf Jäger, interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. He added, however, that the authorities will do everything in their power to ensure that such attacks are not repeated. "We owe that to women as well as to those North African refugees who want to live peacefully among us."
Ulf Küch, police chief in the city of Braunschweig, which has also suffered at the hands of small-time criminals from migrant backgrounds, told SPIEGEL ONLINE in November that the vast majority of migrants from the region are law-abiding. "We have found that very few immigrants commit crimes, but those who do commit a number of crimes," says Küch. Official statistics would seem to indicate that his impression is right. A study released in November by the German Federal Criminal Police Office on crime committed by refugees shows that the number of offenses perpetrated by migrants is rising much more slowly than the number of migrants coming to Germany.
Why would the news media cover up the story? On whose orders?
On nobody's orders. The suppression is voluntary. This is the way the thinking goes:
Right-wing hate groups are bad.
Right-wing hate groups feed off stories of immigrants and foreigners doing bad things to natives.
Publishing stories about immigrants and foreigners doing bad things to locals will fuel right-wing hate groups. Which is bad.
So we shouldn't publish those sorts of stories.
I've noticed some prominent media outlets have not enabled comments for this story. Another soft suppression of expression. The sentiment is well-meaning, but terribly misguided and dangerous to public dialogue. The more the media tries to be gate-keepers for this sort of debate, the more they'll simply drive the dialogue underground, while diminishing their own credibility and relevance.
And honestly, does anyone think we wouldn't see far, far more media attention to a mass crime and harassment outbreak like this at a U.S. college town involving hundreds of drunk and rowdy frat boys? The columns about rape culture would be all over the front page of every news outlet and forum on the internet.
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