Turkish Hijackers

Amy Welborn mentions and links to an editorial about why coverage of the Turkish hijacking seemed to vanish when the story was no longer one of Mohammedans protesting the Pope, but one of Christians fleeing oppresive Turkey.

I think the answer is that the hijackers really have no cause, and most newspaper reporters are seeing right through their alleged grievances. Not to belittle the suffering of Christians under the hands of the Mohammedan, but my skeptic meter goes on overdrive when one is hijacking an airplane to show one's Christianity.

1. Turkey is a majority Mohammedan country, and this is sad. However, it is the most secular of all the Mohammedan countries. It is also pretty easy to leave Turkey. I guarantee that if you showed up in Greece (or Armenia) seeking asylum because you feared persescution as a Christian convert from Mohammedanism, you would not have a problem. Ditto if you found your way into the American embassy.

2. Hijacking a plane full of innocent civilians shows that perhaps the hijacker's catechesis is a little, shall we say, incomplete. This is the sort of silliness that normally comes from cradle Catholics of an Irish Massachussetts with a last name that starts with K disposition, not from converts.

3. So, when it comes down to it, the fellows are bull goose loons.

Perhaps the Turk is not so compassionate when it comes to treatment of the criminally insane. If so, then they should be hospitalized in Europe.

But however you slice it, this is not a cause for Catholics to get up in arms over. It has nearly nothing to do with Christianity and Mohammedanism and everything to do with a couple of malfunctioning brains.