Why on earth do Europeans go to places like this?!
Americans do it too.
It’s a total mystery to me. If They want to go hiking you got mountain ranges all across United States. Go there.
Member the guy took his wife to the Middle East to go walking around. Came back with more children than they left with? Because they were over there so long in captivity.
Scandinavian people are raised to be kind and loving people nowadays. Even over here, Disney World had a "Morocco" exhibit that showed beautiful handmade things, amazing architecture, and friendly helpers to help guide their visitors through their maze of attractions. And Scandinavians have travelling blood, often marrying and remaining in the countries they visit, and if the community is lucky, they open a Scandinavian-style smorgasbord restaurant using the world class cooking they're famous for.
Maybe it never crossed their mind that the bad people in that country of Morocco have a bone to pick with all foreigners, and since we have so many Scandinavians in this country who become sport heroes, willowy models, and good community-spirited citizens, they likely weren't raised to be paranoid to look for trouble before being friendly to someone they had never met before.
These women were truly victims, taken in and then tortured and executed cruelly by fanatically-crazed men who think killing infidels is their duty due to their deeply-held hatred for "infidels." What happened next was unthinkable, and wiring the parents their handiwork was as hateful as the deed they did to innocent women who trusted them due to their unsuspicious nature. My father served in WWII and came home not too fond of the basal cruelty he saw in northernmost Africa. He only mentioned it once and never again. I didn't know then what he meant, but after seeing this story many decades later, I remembered his lament.
Prayers up for those mothers and their daughters' families and friends.