I think this tells us more about islamic attitudes to women than about the poor victim. I think she would have been safer in a european or american demo, even a violent one.

This is unbelievable. These are the same people that blame rape victims for their attack.
These are crimes of violence!

Whilst appalling, there is a distinct degree of naivety on behalf of CBS and the posters here.
Firstly, sending a female into a dangerous mob situation is always risky, but as reporters they take this risk. Anyone who believes their gender doesn't matter is being incredibly naive, sexual assault is MUCH more likely to happen to females rather than males. The point that violence happened to both sexes is valid, but raises the question of why this is the one in the news - is it a 'worse' crime than what Mr. Boehm went through, for example?

Secondly, those who believe there is no link between gender, dress style, and sexual assault is living in dreamland.
There is. Sooner we accept that the world is not a liberal paradise, the sooner we can fight this problem.

It is likely that Ms Logan was being careful, as she knew her surroundings.
However, believing that common sense applies to dress style in a conservative Muslim (or indeed Hindu or Christian) country does not equal 'she deserved it', nor does it equal 'all men are rapists'.
When I was in the Middle East and South Asia, being a white female makes you a target instantly. There are many who will honestly be confused that as a white female you do not want to sleep with them. This is a more ingrained social and media driven problem than a comment can investigate.
It was made important we understood cultural sensitivities, in terms of wearing headscarves when appropriate, not showing the amount of skin you may get away with in the UK, as well as wider dangers of walking home alone, etc (as advisable in London as it is Lahore).
The problem of what India calls 'eve-teasing' is very real, and to say it is not linked to dress style is naive in the extreme.
There are many who will be not only offended by such actions, but emboldened by them; Particularly in places where arrest, conviction of sexual assault is lower, and casual acceptance of it being the 'victims fault' is higher. (if subconscious, it exists)
You do not fight this patriarchy by wearing western clothing in an Muslim nation, you do it by increasing awareness, education and strengthening the justice system.

This does not mean sacrificing feminist principles, it is pragmatism to avoid crime. Which frankly is more important.

Headline this week in the Daily Mail:-

"Now the under-age Skins cast court further controversy as they star in risqué lingerie shoot"

Immediately below was a large picture of Eleanor Zichy, 15 in her underwear!

Oh, the irony.

Rape, especially by such a large group, is about power. But the point so many of you bigots (not all) seem to have missed almost entirely is this is a reference to what the victim wore 9 years earlier! People then talk as though she was walking around in her underwear, she was not, these acts are the behavior our a brutish mob that felt it could not be held accountable for it's actions. Perhaps if she had been wearing the niqab they may of let her pass, perhaps not, but if they had it would have only proved it was about power even more clearly. The power to terrorize people into conformity.

What a tragedy that most comment writer here fail to offer sympathy to this women who were just doing her duty. Why should it be wrong for her to undertake assignment in foreign land? Some idiots trying to divert it to religious controversy by subtly pointing to Egypt and Muslim. Bollocks. The Daily Mail as ever is vile and xenophobic. It condemns Muslim women wearing burkha as against British way of life and try to score point by implying Muslim women are forced to cover themselves. Then again it criticise Ms.Logan for wearing dress which is the norm in UK. Do anyone know what does The Daily Mail actually stand for? As for those idiots who say they agree with Daily Mail, your head is full of ....!!!

Stu
Because women are never raped in the UK or Europe are they?

The amount of rape apologists on this thread is astounding.

To those who say she shouldn't have been there, why should women have their freedoms, or careers, or bodily autonomy taken away because some men choose to attack women?

And yes, it is a choice. Men are not animals who can't help themselves when they see a pretty woman wearing a turtle neck. Men who rape make a decision to do so. Not thinking so is offensive to men and hideously repressive towards women.

Or do you think all women should stay at home? Because we never get raped there...oh, right.

I believe that "dress style" has a lot to do with sexual assault and rape. Yes, underlying this is the need for power and control but triggered by the perception of the perpetrator of the assault. Assault and rape cannot be taken out of their cultural, religious and social contexts. One must also understand how mob behavior works. While individually one may be rational, this "self" can be lost in the milieu of the mob.

I would say that if CNN had a clearer understanding of the culture and behaviors of the Egyptian communities, they may have re-considered their choice of Ms Logan.

Unless CNN deliberately chose to send her in, anticipating some kind of an event that would involve this journalist, thereby increasing viewer traffic and publicity.

However, whatever the reason, the assault on Ms Logan cannot be excused.

Words fail me.

of course we expect this from the daily mail. but even on the guardian CIF pages, this attitude was in full evidence. From 'egypt is no place for a woman' to 'well, she shouldn't go out looking like that'.

the rapist/attacker is only and always to blame. Not the woman. Ever.

Unbelievable.

I kind of partly agree with the daily mail. Although the culprits are in no way excused and should be heavily punished...having said that, in dressing provocatively, she does have her fault into all that. You cannot provoke and expect not to be attacked. It's like going into a hungry doberman's cage with pieces of meat on your ass and expecting it to obey its master!!!

She is very pretty and you definitely need to be in order to be a success in US television.

CBS really should not have put a western, female reporter into that situation, especially in a highly-charged Muslim environment where all obviously foreign reporters are also being targeted.

Does anyone really expect anything else from the Daily Mail?

I find some of what you say quite sensible Jon R, though I wish it was not the case that women have to practically walk around in hessian sacks in certain cultures as they are given the blame for 'provoking' men who should, quite frankly, be able to control themselves.

I do find it abhorrent, however, that the old chestnut of 'look what she is wearing, she's asking for it' that is still an acceptable explanation for sexual assaults on women in more quarters of the UK than we would like to admit.

@A I completely agree with you - human rights are human rights. Rape does not stop being rape, just as child abuse, honour killing, genital mutilation and a million other abuses meted out against other humans beings in the name of 'culture' do not stop being essentially that, just because they happen to be socially acceptable in a given place.

mOH and Swatantra,

'You partly agree with the Mail' and 'women should be careful in sending out the wrong messages' - let's hope they don't have you on jury service for any rape or sexual assault charge then. You should be ashamed of yourselves. I'm speechless I'm so bloody appalled that dinosaurs like you two are still out there and can dare to make such statements.

Hang your heads in shame, you are a disgrace.

The Daily Mail is full of crap. On the issue of female clothing choices, its columnist Allison Pearson once wrote that women wearing the niqab, or as she phrased it "nose-bags over their faces", "have no place on British streets". But it wasn't the lack of a nose-bag that got Ms Logan beaten up in Egypt – all foreign journalists were being targeted by Hosni Mubarak's thugs. How could even a paper as rubbish as the Mail miss this?