It seems as if these Bulgarian nurses will live, thanks to American and European taxpayers who will pay families who are victims of yet another disasterous Islamic country with third rate social services. This case should be widely publicized as an example of the abuse of foreign workers, even professionals, who take jobs in Muslim countries. This is clearly blackmail on the part of the Libyan government. If a person accepts a job in an Islamic country, they should be made to read a history of incidents such as this one and made to understand that they take the job at their own risk.

Posted by: maryrose at December 24, 2005 9:14 AM

Dhimitude in its true colors...the west is subjugated to it.

Posted by: chuck at December 24, 2005 10:12 AM

Call for Papers:

What is it about Islam that causes its adherents to be even more susceptible to rumors, obvous untruths, crazed interpretations of events, willingness to believe the most preposterous, unwillingness to examine the facts in an unhurried and rational manner, asT his business of the "Ads-spreading Infidel nurses" demonstrates, as does the Baghdad-circulating story about American soldiers luring children with candy, the better to kill them and then "blame the insurgents," or the "MOSSAD was behind the World Trade Center bombings" (this still being muttered or uttered, long after Bin Laden takes full credit, long after the Arabs had exploded with delirious delight at the news of the attacks), the Muslim propensity to believe rumors, conspiracy theories, every sort of wild story, and the wilder, the more preposterous, the better.

Everywhere people are susceptible to such things -- rumors, stories, and so on. The mnore primitive they are, the more unused to the habit of skepticism, the less willing to apply reason, logic, stuff like that, the more mired they are in superstition or superstitious beliefs, the more likely they are to believe things. And as Islam demands the habit of mental submission, in all areas of life, because it is a Total Regulation and a Complete Explanation, and insists upon that mental submission and discourages free and skeptical inquiry at every point, naturally the susceptibility of its adherents to those rumors, tall tales, conspiracy theories to Blame the Other (because Muslims must be blameless, and the Infidel always at fault -- how could it be otherwise? Otherwise does not make sense.)-- is high, higher, highest. Superlative indeed.

Posted by: Hugh at December 24, 2005 10:41 AM

Mary is right about the abuse of foreign workers in Arab countries. Funny, ain't it, that the "left," that used to be so concerned about the "working class," doesn't give a damn about abuse of foreign workers in the Persian Gulf Arab emirates or Libya? And there are millions of them. Further, "human rights watch" and "amnesty int'l" don't seem to care either about human rights in Arab/Muslim countries. If hrw and ai were doing the job that we have a right to expect them to do, then Libya would have given up those nurses years ago. Without demanding payment of ransom or blood money, disguised or otherwise. The payment mentioned above is disgraceful. Mary mentions the low grade social services in Libya. No doubt. But Libya is not a poor country. It has a lot of oil and is capable of paying for its own hospitals, etc. The payment for releasing the nurses paid to those thugs, bigots, etc., just makes me mad.

Posted by: Eliyahu at December 25, 2005 6:12 AM