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What’s Religion Got to do with it? German Co-Pilot as Terrorist

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Post time 27-3-2015 02:24 PM | Show all posts |Read mode
What’s Religion Got to do with it? German Co-Pilot as Terrorist
By Juan Cole | Mar. 26, 2015

Once it became clear that Andreas Lubitz, 28, deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, a reporter immediately asked “what was his religion?” (Parent company Lufthansa said they didn’t know). Authorities said there was no evidence it was “terrorism.”

Lubitz is from Rhineland-Palatinate, known for its wine-growing and pharmaceuticals. It is roughly 2/5s Roman Catholic and a third Lutheran. A fourth of its people don’t really care about religion one way or another.

Why in the world would his religion be relevant? If he did crash the plane on purpose then presumably he was depressed and wanted not only to commit suicide but also to be a mass murderer. You could understand how a depressed person with low self-esteem might think it ego-boosting to determine the fate of so many others.

It isn’t political terrorism, likely, but certainly it was a terroristic act of killing.

But we know why they asked. It was out of bigotry against Muslims, probing whether another one had gone postal. The subtext is that white Christians don’t go off the deep end, even though obviously they do, in large numbers. It isn’t a logical question about Andreas Lubitz from Rhineland-Palatinate. Zeynep Tufekci tweeted,

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Worst example was CNN anchors wondering "maybe" Anders Breivik was a Muslim convert. Long after Norway police said he was white supremacist.

Maybe I need to add some more principles to my Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others, like “terrorism is only ruled out when the whiteness of the perp can be firmly established.”
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Post time 27-3-2015 02:51 PM | Show all posts
But we know why they asked. It was out of bigotry against Muslims, probing whether another one had gone postal.
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Post time 27-3-2015 03:35 PM | Show all posts
What to do? Muslims seems to be in business of crashing planes nowadays.

So it is obvious that whenever someone crashes a plane, people will ask ONE of TWO questions - Was he a Muslim OR was he mentally unstable? As if both questions are differ.
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