Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Clinging to God, Guns, and Resentment?

Did we just narrowly avoid another 9/11?

On June 4, a 24-year-old Muslim man named Raed Abdhul-Rahman Alsaif was arrested for trying to bring a seven-inch knife on board a U.S. Airways flight at Tampa International Airport, destined for Phoenix. The blade was seen by a screener and Alsaif was caught before he could get onto the airliner. Of course, he says he is innocent, as some forgetful friend gave him the luggage bag and failed to mention that a knife was embedded inside the material, which the criminal complaint states was “artfully” concealed in such a way as to allow for it to be retrieved once the flight took off.


And:

On the same day, June 4, two other individuals, Roshid Milledge and Damien Young, were arrested in Philadelphia after sneaking a handgun onto a flight. The airline? U.S. Airways. The destination? Phoenix. The departing time? About 35 minutes from the flight Alsaif attempted to board, using the same airliner and with the same destination.


Coincidence? Innocent?

Or a hijacking team trying to come together in Phoenix? Or two attempts to hijack two planes?

It is obvously too early to conclude what happened. But if a hijacking attempt, why didn't these hijackers succumb to the soothing existence of our president who was elected last Novmber? And sworn in last January?

And our president gave a speech to the Moslem world that very same day. Was this an attempt to be the jihadi response to that outreach?

Could it be that our jihadi enemies can't be reached by words and must be killed or held until they die of old age?