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UK journalist assaulted in Tahrir Square: ‘Please make it stop’
Cairo (CNN) — Amid the celebrations that greeted the declaration of a winner in Egypt’s first freely elected presidential vote, a British student journalist was being sexually assaulted by a mob in Tahrir Square.
Natasha Smith recounted the experience on her blog and in an interview with CNN. Smith, who has since left Egypt, wrote that the moving demonstrations of freedom turned to horror “in a split second” when dozens of frenzied men dragged her away from two male companions and began to grope her “with increasing force and aggression.”
“Men started ripping off all my clothes,” she told CNN. “First of all, it was my skirt, and that just went straight away, and I didn’t even feel my underwear being removed. Then my shoes went and clothes on my upper half were just being ripped off me, and that was quite painful.”
During the assault, “I was just in this weird, detached state of mind, and I just kept saying, ‘Please God, please make it stop. Please, God, make it stop.’ ”
Boobie the Rocket Dog
July 1st, 2012
CNN reporters deny the existence of the real world. This one paid the price, just like chimpanzee-boy a couple of days ago.
The Doktor
July 1st, 2012
I agree with Boobie, as strange as that sentence may look.
Billy Fuster
July 1st, 2012
Drop the big one now.
Dr. Tar
July 1st, 2012
Animals
CrustyB
July 1st, 2012
Women should stay as far away from Muslim countries as they can, particularly Egypt. The only way women should see Egypt is from the seat of a US bomber.
Left Coast Dan
July 1st, 2012
For any Western woman to willingly hang out in Egypt at this point just shows absolute ignorance, or denial.
old_oaks
July 1st, 2012
Who in their right mind wears a skirt to Tahrir Square?
Damitol
July 1st, 2012
Coming to America soon. Because those really smart people in Squashington don’t want to be called Islamophobic.
hanoverfist
July 1st, 2012
Never saw this coming.
And OLD OAKS,
The skirt should cover you from head to toe.
Preferably black with an eye slit.
http://katachasm.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/burka1.jpg
Moe Tom
July 1st, 2012
“I shall return”,she says, “to finish my work.” I’d like to remind her that there is plenty of “work” to be done in Ireland and England where young grils are being assaulted daily by mobs of muslims. But it is not reported as such. That would be racist.
She’s an idiot.
persecutor
July 1st, 2012
while I feel sorry for what happened to her, I agree with Moe Tom-she’s an idiot if she goes back.
msq
July 1st, 2012
LOL! GOD? really? I wonder what it was that the filthy animals were yelling while they violated you in the dirt? was it anything that translates roughly as allah is greatest?
remember people, Ilaha is their word for “god” alla is the name of their god.
MN Patriot
July 1st, 2012
@Billy Fuster
This is the best cover of Randy Newman’s Political Science ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK2Kpeirj_I
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Drackxman
July 1st, 2012
That this is not islam thing is Bullshit ! This is what islam is. A bunch of 5th century thugs who treat women and infidels like dogs. Islam is a thug cult that should be pushed back into the stone age.
MN Patriot
July 1st, 2012
@msq
Aloha Snackbar.
Efficacy
July 1st, 2012
Obama: “The sweetest sound in Islam is the call to assault, rape, and kill women”.
reddecaesari
July 1st, 2012
another idiot.
AvgDude
July 1st, 2012
Why would any responsible news agency send a woman into a crowd of raghead males after what happened to that CNN reporter last year. Why would any woman reporter be stupid enough to repeat the same mistake? Jesus.
norman einstein
July 1st, 2012
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Sadly, left to its conclusion, this kind of event would thin the herd.
Common sense aside, as a “reporter”, did she not hear what happened to Lara Logan?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357394/Lara-Logan-attack-CBS-reporter-leaves-hospital-Cairo-mob-sex-assault.html
Stranded in Sonoma
July 1st, 2012
@Drackxman — That would be an upgrade.
@Left Coast Dan — Denial? In a story about Egypt?
fluffythewondercat
July 1st, 2012
Take one ambitious, naive, idealistic journalism student. Add an Islamic mob. Stir in a few rumors about how a blonde blue-eyed white-skinned bimbo is a foreign spy.
Honestly? I think she and her friends set it off.
Not that the crazies need an excuse to attack women, but this incident sure did get her in the news, didn’t it?
And notice how careful she was to endorse both Egypt and Islam. Don’t want to piss off any potential employers.
Yes, I think it was a set-up. I think she was genuinely surprised at how rough they were with her. Silly post-teenage idealist with girlish fantasies of being big-time foreign correspondant.
Stirrin the B.S.
July 1st, 2012
One more time: “It’s the religion of pea….oh what-the-hell, it’s not a religion and it is sickeningly violent. Liberals are just idiots!”
Moe Tom
July 1st, 2012
She probably did not mind getting poked. It’s just that did did it right there in the dirt, and they were so rough,so uncouth, and oh so smelly.
Moe Tom
July 1st, 2012
Check out another idiot, Mika Brzezinski, on you tube. Watch Mika pouring vodka in her tea before going on air.
What a lush.
Stirrin the B.S.
July 1st, 2012
@Moe – was that real or staged? She was so out in the open with it, unlesss she had absolutely no idea that she was being video’d.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqVrYa01zYw
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Dianne
July 1st, 2012
Like I keep saying, you can deny reality, but that won’t save you.
Moe Tom
July 1st, 2012
Stirrin the BS. I think it’s real. The staff probably hate her guts.
Tim
July 1st, 2012
My wife and I traveled to Egypt before Mubarak’s overthrow, and the tour buses had guards with machine pistols.
We swore we’d never return, even if they paid us to go.
I cannot imagine any westerner going to that Hell-hole for any reason.
The Doktor
July 1st, 2012
What the Left will NEVER admit —
Ideology, NOT religion
Major Mal function
July 4th, 2012
Quran 04:24 – Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess.
Guess what Ms. Smith? You got caught.