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Originally Posted by varmint
So what? Think of Egypt. The Muslim brotherhood used words like freedom, democracy and human rights. It is naive in the extreme to project our values on others.
My baseless speculation is just as good a everyone else's baseless speculation. I think the captain planned a political statement/hijacking. Something went wrong and he lost control of the plane. And no one else was in a state to regain control.
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It would also be naïve to compare Malaysia and Egypt, to assume that Islam is a homogenous idea or to think that there are no progressive, social democratic ideas in either Malaysia (Anwar Ibrahim for example) or in Egypt for that matter. Or to assume that because an airline pilot lives in an Islamic country he is capable of a terror act.