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| The beast, Mrs Alina Gaddafi (left) and the beauty (Shweyga Mullah) |
I am truly proud to be Maltese at this very moment.
Shweyga Mullah, the nanny of two of Gaddafi's
grandchildren, will be arriving in Malta in the next hours for treatment at Mater Dei.
Reluctantly, I invite you to refresh your memory of her horrific story - click: Burned Gaddafi family nanny being treated in Tripoli.
Ms Mullah's hellish ordeal is iconic of the inhumanity and cruel decadence that Gaddafi's regime had descended to. Mrs Hannibal Gaddafi repeatedly poured scalding water on Ms Mullah's head simply because, as her children's nanny, she refused to beat up one of them.
We should be proud that we are about to give Shwygar Mullah the medical care she needs. We should be proud to welcome her with open arms.
And we should be proud that the first civilised land she will set foot on is ours.
9 comments:
Edward Fenech
Lou what on earth do you mean Proud to be Maltese? For the last 40 years we arese-licked the family that brought misery upon this woman. Now we give her some treatment at mater Dei and what? Absolution? Come on....we have a lot more to repent for before feeling any Pride. I am proud to be maltese for many reasons...this is not one of them.
Christian Bonniċi
really hoping that someone documents Malta's involvement in all this. A series of documentaries pls..
Simon Sullivan
sorry Edward there was only one very misguided and generally ignorant swathe of society that ever adulated the lunatic... do not associate us normal people with them.
Edward Fenech
i never saw anyone opbjecting to libyan investment in malta....we all just shut up and got on with our lives....me included BTW
The above comments on this post were transported from facebook. This is my response:
Edward, if you are unable to distinguish between the PL's adultion of Gaddafi from the PN government's correct dealing with a neighbouring state which happens to be a dictatorship, you are deluding yourself. Secondly, what is wrong with being proud of the fact that we are helping this woman as we helped so many thousands of others stuck in the Libyan mess from all over the world. Is being proud of our solidarity a sin now?
I don't recall mentioning PL or PN. Mine was a comment about our Malta as a nation.
@ E.Fenech - You said that for "the last 40 years we arese-licked", making no distinctions.
Lou I am no longer in the mindset of "il PL aghar mil PN". My comment was about how we treated Libya as a nation our politicians, our businessmen, our media and as citizens. We sucked up big time. Issa kulhadd sar Freedom Fighter ghal Libya. I refute that hypocrisy.
I'll take the first step and apologise persoannly to the libyan people for not once doing anything to address their plight. Jiena hati!
Proud to be Maltese when CNN reported the arrival of Shwagar within seconds of reporting what Cameron and Sarkozy are doing in Benghazi. Malta's deed was indeed seen/projected as humanitarian and CNN reporter even said that Mater Dei is a modern, state of the art hospital. Why should we mind such reportage (ancillary benefits), and even less, such deeds?!
what do you make out of Gonzi's & Borg's short-notice visit to Gaddafi just weeks before the start of the uprising? if i recall correctly, the visit was unplanned and it felt as if gonzi and borg were summoned and not asked to travel to libya ... head of states do not usually travel to neighbour countries at short notice. no?
Lou, are you sure that enrolling Gaddafi as honorary companion of honour of the National Order of Merit in 2004 was "the correct way of dealing with a neighbouring state which happens to be a dictatorship"?
Did not the unseemly haste with which EFA rushed to Libya to reassure Gaddafi of the Maltese people's friendship at the height of a serious dispute between the two countries over oil drilling writes smack of politically partisan opportunism bordering on treason to you?
On second thoughts, it probably didn't.
Dear Lou,
Unfortunately Edward Fenech is perfectly right. For the past forty years we arse licked Gaddaffi. May I remind you that we were the only DEMOCRATIC state to send a president of a republic, Dr G. Abela for the idiot’s 40 years celebration. So we were the only democratic country that went out celebrating a regime. Awesome. Impeccable. To make matters worse we even sent the army brass band.
When I wrote about this at that time, a PN die hard insisted that I was in the wrong, because ‘we as a country have many business interests there’. No matter what we had it surely did not surpass French, Italian and British interests but none of them attended a dictatorship celebration.
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