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Did NY Times Get Rape Coverage Right the Second Time Around?
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsWhen an 11-year-old girl said she was raped multiple times by more than a dozen men in an abandoned trailer in Texas, the story made national headlines. Just how the story of her alleged rape should be told, however, has proved to be an explosive issue, one that has exposed critical fault lines in the way society thinks about rape and the way journalists write about it. Much of the controversy has centered on The New York Times. The newspaper's first take on the disturbing crime provoked outrage from critics who said the Times seemed to be blaming the victim for her own rape. The first ...
In 2 Gang Rape Cases, Communities Blame 11-Year-Old Victims
By David Lohr - AOL NewsAuthorities in Texas have arrested more than a dozen suspects in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl. There is outrage and there is anger -- but much of it is being directed at the victim. Something similar has also happened in Michigan, where another 11-year-old was gang raped. "People have a tendency to say, 'Boys will be boys.' That is a common mentality now," Dr. Walter E. Afield, a nationally known mental health expert, told AOL News. "But rape can be just bad as murder, and if they had killed an 11-year-old people would be outraged." In Texas, the girl's mother says she has been ...
Is Islam Evil?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyCertainly, since 9/11, this is a question that many in the western world have been struggling to answer. Our own president continually takes pains to separate the acts of extreme elements within Muslim world from the tenor of the religion as a whole, describing Islam as a religion of peace. Yet, many people in the United States firmly believe just the opposite. Consider but a sampling of the comments left on Matt Singer's recent Political Machine article about Mitt Romney declaring that he would not appoint a Muslim to a cabinet level position in his administration.A reader named Robert ...
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