Re: Libya to execute HIV medics. (A Justice Nightmare)
Well, the thread opener seems to insinuate that this incident is a nightmare of justice...What is truly a travesty of justice is that Bush still walks free and countless innocents still die in both Iraq and Afghanistan...If this was truly a just world we lived in, Bush as of this moment would have been sentenced for execution by an international tribunal for war crimes against humanity...But this is not an ideal world we live in...
However, we must keep in mind this happened in a Muslim country...In Muslim countries, the incidences of AIDS are very very rare...Because of a strictly monogamous society and religious sentiments, the spread of AIDS in Muslim countries is pretty much limited to red light areas or the rare occasional desi who has a foreign girlfriend abroad...
The infection of 400 little children is not a small matter to be taken so lightly...We tend to take it in a non-serious and trivial matter because the children infected were Muslims...
Imagine for a second if a Muslim doctor was found to have infected 400 American children with the HIV virus, what would happen then?
But for me, a Muslim child is just as important and precious as any child from anywhere...And their being infected by a deadly virus specially in a Muslim country where AIDS is present in almost negligible ratios, speaks volumes...
These nurses and doctor were entrusted to uphold the honor of the medical profession...Instead, due to their negligence, out of whatever reason, 400 kids now face certain death...
Whether the syringes were reused or not, it was their duty to protect the lives of these children, failing which, they should have left...
They were given due process, not once but twice, and it's time they faced the Maker for their deeds...