For non-Muslims, Shariah is best known for its sanction for the brutalization of women, homosexuals and Jews.

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Many of them are victims themselves, but they are waging a war against inequality in their homes and marginalisation and brutalization outside.

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And why have Western media outlets been so reticent in discussing the significance of their own reporters' brutalization at the hands of the Egyptian demonstrators?

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On a human level, what is it like for the President to see these reports, to hear about the brutalization of infants, of children in Syria?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

This is obviously, on the international stage, a matter of great and intense focus right now because of the horrific brutalization of the Syrian people and the need for the international community to take actions.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

We are very heartened in general by the international consensus that has been created here very rapidly in condemning the actions of the Libyan regime and the brutalization of the Libyan people by the Libyan government, and that includes obviously AFRICOM.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Just as the Left ignores, underplays, trivializes or justifies the fact that hatred of Jews is the most universal sentiment in the Muslim world today, so it systematically ignores, underplays or trivializes the endemic brutalization of women and girls throughout the Islamic world.

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While the reporters on the scene in Cairo serve as a rebuke to the notion of journalistic cowardice, the international media's tepid and superficial coverage of their brutalization at the hands of the demonstrators shares important features with the negligence of CNN in Iraq and the reporters in Ramallah.

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