Last night the news story broke about a terrible airplane crash in the French Alps. I don't know about you, but as information filtered in through the various news channels and Internet sources, I began to strongly suspect that the crash was intentional. This morning information gleaned overnight indicated that indeed this disaster was no accident. While telemetry data indicated that the copilot had placed the airliner on automatic pilot with the plane in a calculated dive from 38,000 feet, the voice recorder in the cockpit recorded the pilot frantically trying to break down the secured cockpit door. The door did its job; the captain was not able to re-enter the cockpit, and the airliner smashed into a mountainside in the French Alps.
The copilot, Andreas Lubitz, according to all available evidence, locked the pilot out of the cockpit and sealed the doom of all those on board. The only question that remained was this: did the pilot commit a spectacular suicide, at the cost of over a hundred lives, or did the pilot murder all those innocent people and sacrifice himself in the process? So as the hours passed today, German police searched Lubitz's home for whatever they might find that would provide some clue to the young co-pilot's state of mind, and of any intentions for suicide or something more sinister.
Almost immediately, the police found disturbing evidence at Lubitz's very front door. A plague hung on the door contained Arabic writing and Islamic symbols. Also, within hours of the crash, Lubitz was being hailed as a hero by Muslims on various Facebook pages. I am not making a judgment at this point since so little is really known or proven. But if it turns out that Lubitz was a Muslim convert and made his last act an act of a jihadist murderer, I hope that news media have the courage, and more importantly, the integrity to print the truth. The religion of Islam, we are constantly being told, is a peaceful religion. The news media constantly pounds us with this idea as the Islamic attacks and bombings happen one after another. Many Islamic nations are in turmoil, while many nations around the world to which Muslims have immigrated are now in turmoil as well, largely as a result of Islamic activism and illegal activity.
I hope it turns out that Andreas Lubitz was mentally twisted, that he chose to commit a very spectacular suicide. I also hope, though, that the news media will tell us the truth if it should be true that Lubitz converted to Islam then committed a suicide mission of mass murder to show his zeal for Allah. We have the right to know, either way. There are many influential people and media that will attempt to portray Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance no matter how long the acts of murder, torture, bombings, and so forth continue. Was this airplane crash one of the latest acts of jihadism perpetrated against innocent people in the name of Islam?
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