A friend of mine writes:

"having read my share of world history going back thousands of years, I know that political conquest and the rape of women has been a constant duo on the scene for milennia. I figure this is an example of that continued concept in action. White woman in Egypt during frenzied overthrow= chance for men to express anger and disgust against this woman for no reason at all except the physical expression of anger and because they could. Let's just say that empathy and the frontal lobe in general goes out the window during this kind of adrenaline rush. If we could find a way to keep this phenomenon from happening in the human brain we could literally change the world. "