You're not alone. Dittos to the max.
You're not alone. Dittos to the max.
I suspect you two, like me, detest this face whenever--and whereever--it makes an appearance. I can't imagine what horror this poor woman experienced. She no doubt saw her life pass before her eyes. As I said before, I hope she has a full physical and emotional recovery.
My question is, how did we get here? How is it that there are now people who, like me, temper their reactions to such a heinous act with thoughts of "but what else can we expect"?
Is there an element here of reaping what you sow? (I'm not saying there is, but I am asking the question to provoke thought.)
Also, I invite you to consider this: What if we called for the animals who did this to be hunted down and eliminated with extreme prejudice? What if we (and in this context, the "we" here means the United States) called for, say, a missile strike against a re-gathering of the low-lifes who assaulted her? Would not some in the Muslim community then have excuse to say, "They just put an attractive and sympathetic woman in an untenable position as a set up. It was their (the United States') desire all-along to gin up a pretext for lobbing missiles."
Yes, I know. I'm being a bit over the top here. On purpose. I'm making up an extreme hypothetical to prove a point: that if we grant this woman with some kind of immunity from how her actions may have contributed to what happened, then we're not, in my opinion, being intellectually honest.
No. I'm not defending snarky or catty comments. But if I were Joe Egyptian, I'd be saddened and disappointed by what my fellow Egyptians did to this poor woman. But I wouldn't hold her up as the paragon of virtue. She, at some level, chose to be in that situation. Perhaps it was stupid; perhaps, instead, it was brave. I don't know.
But what I do know is that it is unconscionable what CBS did sending her there, and even more unconscionalbe that they suppress the release of this news. I find it fascinating that we're busy here on FR eating our own. In my opinion, CBS deserves our wrath. Not each other.
Just my 2¢.