Myth 1: Modern security checks keep us safe in the air.
Myth 2: It's only disaffected, illiterate and poor people that fall for radical religion.
I read with horror the details of the latest terrorist attempt to kill people in the skies over the Atlantic ocean. Another wealthy, intelligent and educated young man is indoctrinated into a process of brain washing that culminates in him strapping high explosives to his body and boarding a US bound jet intent on murder. As usual the idea of the veracity of "faith" is front and centre in this story, a young impressionable mind is corrupted by the false promises and warped logic of this concept by unscrupulous puppet masters. In an interview with one of his teachers the attributes become visible,
Mr Rimmer told The Daily Telegraph: "In 2001 we discussed the Taliban in class. All the other Muslim kids thought they were a bunch of nutters with beards, and could not understand why they did such things as banning kite flying. But Umar seemed to think that was reasonable." He said fellow pupils gave him the nickname ‘The Pope’ because of his "pious" and "high-minded” attitudes and later dubbed him 'Alfa' a local term meaning Islamic teacher.
It's a shame the expensive schools he attended didn't teach him that believing anything from bad science via talking snakes through flying horses to an endless orgasmic spasm with 72 virgins after you are dead without good evidence is a bad idea, not a virtuous one. I don't need faith to foresee some winged angels of (Hellfire laser guided) death featuring large in the future of some Yemeni residents quite soon.
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