Published: October 19, 2011
Op-Ed Contributor
Airplane Passenger Shouts: Allahu Akbar, You're All Going to Die
By Robert Paul Reyes
"Somewhere in the heavens above Amarillo, angry shouts rang out from the back of Southwest Airlines Flight 3683.
'You're all going to die,' a man dressed in black screamed at passengers Tuesday afternoon. 'You're all going to hell. Allahu Akbar,' translated as God is great in Arabic." Amarillo News
You would think that the proclamation "Allahu Akbar" or "God is Great" would be well received by people, regardless of their religious affiliation. Every person of faith would agree that God is Great, but such is the blood-stained history of Islam, that the familiar Islamic chant is often a prelude to death and destruction.
It was superfluous for Shahsavari to add "You're all going to hell", we very well know that when a Muslim shouts "Allahu Akbar" at infidels, he isn't going to shower us with hugs and kisses.
It's astonishing that none of the cowardly passengers rushed the man when he shouted "Allahu Akbar." We've all seen this movie before a hundred times; if I'm on an airplane and a man shouts "Allahu Akbar" I will immediately try to take him out. It appears Shahsavari is a nut job and not a terrorist, but the passengers shouldn't have waited for a psychiatric report.
In a sane world Shahsavari would have been a bloodied mess by the time the plane landed and he was arrested by law enforcement officials. We are a nation of sheep!
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http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2011-10-18/passenger-youre-all-going-die#.Tp6U2mCfaM4
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Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.
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