Monday, March 17, 2014
Some More Speculation on Malaysian Air Lines Flight 370
Hat tip Discover the Networks and Chris
I have been silent on the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370 because like everyone else, I don't know what happened, and you can get your fill of speculation from dozens of experts who are all over the news networks being interviewed. Predictably, they are all over the place. At this point, without jumping to conclusions, I do want to make sure one point is brought out.
At this point, the focus seems to be that whatever occurred was a result of a deliberate act by someone in the cockpit. The Malaysian authorities including the prime minister are calling it a criminal act. I will say at the outset that statements coming out of Malaysia can be taken with a grain of salt for several reasons.
But if the above is correct, we then turn to the two co-pilots. One in particular, senior pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah, has been found to be supporter of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, according to some accounts, "a fanatical supporter". Maybe not fanatical, but it has been revealed that on the day of the flight, Shah was present in the courtroom when Ibrahim's previous acquittal on sodomy charges was overturned. He now faces prison time. According to most news accounts, Ibrahim is a man trying to bring democracy to Malaysia, and the court decision is viewed with extreme suspicion by many as a form of pay-back. Again, let's take statements coming from Malaysian authorities with a degree of skepticism.
So far, so good, but if we look a little deeper into Mr Anwar, we find this (hat tip Chris)
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2519
And as co-founder of the Institute of Islamic Thought, we find this:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6180
So it appears that Ibrahim has been influenced by Sayyid Qutb and Maulana Maududi, has links to the Muslim Brotherhood, and reportedly holds a desire to bring sharia law to Malaysia.
I am not jumping to conclusions here, but if whatever happened to this plane was a result of a criminal act, then we have to go to the motive. Again, without jumping to conclusions, if it was a criminal act, I would be willing to bet someone a steak dinner on what the motive was. And based on the above, if the pilot (Shah) turns out to be the culprit, make that two steak dinners.
Speculation? Sure. But you can just throw that in with all the other speculation we re hearing on the TV news shows.
After watching the video in the article above and learning that this pilot was a financial supporter of Anwar Ibrahim, as well as the display of his "Democracy is Dead" proclamation on his tee shirt, I don't see how you refrain from stating the obvious.
ReplyDeleteMalaysian authorities did not search the pilot's house for a week. No doubt it was for the same reasons that the Egyptian authorities denied that the Egyptian pilot flew that plane into the ocean while yelling Allah Akbar. They want to cover the atrocities committed in the name of their God and their religion.
It could have been the pilot or the co-pilot or the engineer or any combination of them. The change of direction after signing off with one country before signing in to the next country is too precise a piece of timing to have been done by anyone less than an experienced pilot.
I know you want to give everybody the benefit of the doubt, but it is also right to acknowledge the implications of the obvious.
Insofar as the march in Denmark video, it looked to me that it was at least several blocks long. My recommendation is that they direct the march straight to the dock and on to a ship to a Sharia compliant Arab country. Both the marchers and the Danes would be happier. Any remaking Muslims would do well to try to integrate into their host country and not try to "transform" it.
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"... any remaking Muslims would do well..."
ReplyDeleteShould have been "... any remaining Muslims would do well..."
Damn spell checker defaults to words you don't intend to write.
I have been silent on the disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370 because like everyone else, I don't know what happened
ReplyDeleteIf you'd stopped right there, you would have been a man of integrity.
Siarlys,
ReplyDeleteYou seem to have overlooked my use of the word IF-in italics no less.
Just for the record, a retired U.S. General, with reluctance, stated that the Malaysia flight is in Pakistan, possibly at a Taliban airstrip. Boeing and Rolls-Royce concur. The plane would have landed at night. Can this happen? Yes it can.
ReplyDeleteThe Boeing 777-200LR has a range og 9000 miles, which makes it able to reach Pakistan. The General also indicated that their is much mor behind this story, as the U.S. is not telling all.
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It would have been hard to fly into that region without being detected by radar.
ReplyDeleteOh wait! Our Navy Seals did it when they killed bin Laden.
I noticed the IF Gary. It rendered all you wrote about as meaningful as CNN's non stop coverage of how much we don't know and how different every expert's opinion is on what might or might not have happened but we don't know.
ReplyDeleteDon't you feel a little safer knowing that any Malaysian Airlines pilot or passenger can duplicate the accomplishments of our Navy Seals?
CNN is even bringing in psychics to guess where the plane is-that is pathetic.
ReplyDeleteMy "if" still stands. I note that none of the news networks are talking about Ibrahim's radical islamic ideals. Interesting, no?
Correction: Indonesia is the most populous Muslim nation in the world.
ReplyDeleteMy mistake!
ReplyDeleteIt is not an area that I am that familiar with. I now know they are different but have somewhat different histories. It would be like asking a Russian about the differences between Texas and New Mexico. They have differences and a different history but look pretty much the same.
Malaysia has over 60% Muslim and Indonesia closer to 80% Muslim. That percentage was the one I was referring to regarding the reluctance to turn over information that "wouldn't be helpful" to an investigation.
Sorry for the error, I shouldn't have given any excuses.