I am sorry this horror happened to this woman, but she sounds like a naive liberal who jumped into a situation where her do-gooder, “all people are basically good” philosophy put her in danger. Five middle eastern men would have set off alarm bells for me. My neighbor is a muslim from Turkey. He has been a good neighbor for 20 years and has helped me on a number of occasions, but after 9/11 I have been on my guard while still being civil. I don’t feel like I can trust any muslim now.