I'm shaking with anger at reading the rest of this thread. Some are ignoring what this woman went through to push through a political agenda... "see, all muslims are violent and can't be trusted." Excuse me, but it was muslims, women and men, who rescued her. Some are basically blaming her for being there, because hell, everyone knows that a hot woman is going to get herself raped if she tries to do the same job her male counterparts do... "see, this is why women just aren't suited to go where men go." Some are saying, "hey, a lot of journalists got beat up, so she should have expected it" without noting that the area inside Liberation Square AFTER the two days of thugs-gone-wild was about the ONLY place safe for journalists, and the only place journalists... male or female... were reporting from.
This woman was targeted by a large group of criminals... not muslims, dammit, opportunistic criminals, a group that systematically pushed between her and her tv crew and her security personnel. They knew exactly what they were doing, they planned to kidnap her, and they did it. If not for the bravery of muslim women who eventually saw what was happening and rushed to her rescue, alerting the Egyptian soldiers who ran to assist, she might have been killed.
But hey, it's a great way to use a woman's horrific experience, a woman who is STILL hospitalized with severe injuries, to push a political, xenophobic, or misogynist agenda without anyone actually giving a fat flying fig about the courageous woman who, in the course of doing her job, was brutalized.
God, some of the posts on this thread have sickened me.