A brief news story online this morning announced that a female CBS News foreign correspondent was brutally raped and beaten during the riots in Egypt last week. The attack took place in a public place - she was separated from the rest of her crew in the mob, and it took 20 soldiers to rescue her.
I cannot imagine the physical and emotional devastation this woman and her family are dealing with right now. Certainly my prayers go out for healing and restoration in this difficult time.
At the same time, however, I am at a loss to comprehend how she could have been on such an assignment to begin with. Egypt is a Muslim country. Muslims, by explicit definition in their holy literature, consider all non-Muslims to be inferior and inherently subservient, deserving of abuse and humiliation. They also, by definition, consider all women inferior to all men. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying - something else their holy books give them explicit permission to do with immunity.
This information is not a secret! How is it that we can know these things and still decide that it's reasonable to send an American, non-Muslim woman into an unstable situation where she is a high-profile prime target? At what point will we, as a society, decide it's better to keep our people safe by acknowledging the unpleasant reality of life and law under Muslim rule than it is to play cheerfully ignorant and stay PC?
Let us hope we reach that point before full scale Muslim rule invades America, or there may no longer be soldiers around to rescue us from the consequences of our choices.
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