El Hagoug is surprised that the Muslim world ignored his fate, but he really shouldn't be. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Libya since he was two years old, and he's still called a Palestinian by the world press. From the Muslim world's perspective, as long as he immigrated within the Muslim world, he was and always would be a refugee. He could never be an Egyptian or Libyan no matter how long he lived there. His story is that same story as many other "Palestinians" who came to Europe. Like him, they were Palestinian only because their parents or grandparents had once lived in Palestine, and like him, they could never become anything else as long as they lived within the Muslim world. Only in the Western World can they actually call themselves Dutch, British or Danish.
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The Arab world had completely ignored the Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor Ashraf Jumaa El Hagoug (al-Hazouz) while they sat in jail for 8 years. El Hagoug made the bitter accusation when he was reunited with his parents in Bulgary, several days after he was freed from Libiya. He accused the Muslim world of sitting by quietly because the five nurses were Christian.
Ashraf reunited with his father, Achmed, and his mother, Afiefa. The parents flew out of Woerden in the Netherlands, to Sofia, Bulgaria to meet their son. The last time they saw Ashraf was when they visited him in jail in 2005. Later the parents and four daughters fled to the Netherlands, afraid for their safety in Libya.
Ashraf El Hagoug will probably come back to the Netherlands with his parents, where he hopes to start off a new life. Since he received Bulgarian citizenship, he would have no problems doing so.
Source: Ad.nl (Dutch), International Herald Tribune (English)