Did she? Or did she have an idealized view of exotic third worlders?
If she indeed knew the actual risks to a pretty Western woman posed by an angry mob of third world men, let alone an angry mob of third world Muslim men, and went there anyway because she thought that a woman should be able to go anywhere without being harmed, SO THERE!!!, then she is incurably stupid.
I'm tellin' ya mate. Many Western women have absolutely no clue.
As a public service I'll list it by the numbers.
#1) Blonde white Western female.
#2) In a country where the rule of law in the best of times can be questionable.
#3) In a country where traditions/customs/laws dictate a certain standard of behavior from women.
#4) In said country in the midst of a revolution.
#5) In public, at night with a camera and lights proclaiming her bad self as a Western Journalist.
Gosh, what could possibly go wrong?