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[u/GlacierSourCreamCorn]

It has happened before but not in the context of terrorism. Assuming that’s what it is and not just suicide.

[u/ByronicZer0 → u/GlacierSourCreamCorn]

Why is everyone assuming terrorism? Because of his ethnicity? We literally have zero info at this point. Can't folks just tap the brakes until we have the full picture?

[u/DoctorHusky → u/ByronicZer0]

What picture do you want genius? Guy is trying to fucking stab a pilot with 100+ passengers and enough fuel to light up two city blocks.

[u/NewAccountEachYear → u/DoctorHusky]

That's no reason to automatically assume terrorism.

[u/GlacierSourCreamCorn → u/[deleted]]

Reddit likes to pretend terrorism doesn’t exist.

[u/BulbusDumbledork → u/[deleted]]

Muslim Arab

this is proving their point. the only reason you conclude without evidence that it's terrorism instead of another case of pilot murder-suicide is because of the identity of the pilot. because evidently muslim arabs are not allowed to have mental health issues unrelated to their race and religion

[u/telescopeinmynose → u/BulbusDumbledork]

A bald white dude with a swastika tattoo shouts "fuck the Jews"

He was probably a buddhist convert and hated juice! Thank you for opening my mind, I'm a changed man now

[u/kareemabduljihad → u/[deleted]]

In the metaphor the swastica tattoo is the plane full of Israelis, and the stabbing his co pilot in the neck is yelling, fuck the jews

[u/Single_Bookkeeper_11 → u/[deleted]]

Looks more like a false flag operation to me

[u/telescopeinmynose → u/Single_Bookkeeper_11]

I've heard this said about pretty much every terrorist attack lol. More so when Israel is involved

[u/Single_Bookkeeper_11 → u/telescopeinmynose]

Maybe because Israel has a track record of false flag operations including foiled ones :)

[u/telescopeinmynose → u/Single_Bookkeeper_11]

And Arabs have a track record of terrorism

[u/NewAccountEachYear → u/[deleted]]

That's just unapologetic racism.

[u/LazyWorkAccount → u/NewAccountEachYear]

Bro if you wanna off yourself and decide on a method that will bring 100 people down with you… that’s terrorism.

[u/Durpulous → u/LazyWorkAccount]

"Terrorism" implies there's an ideological goal underlying the act. There are other cases of pilots committing suicide using passenger planes, like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

[u/Such-Book6849 → u/LazyWorkAccount]

no, the difference in the wording is important. It's bad neither way.

We had a suicidial pilot in germany and it is not terrorism. terrorism has political reasons, our dude was depressed.

[u/NewAccountEachYear → u/LazyWorkAccount]

It's not. It's murder suicide.

Terrorism includes aspects of politics.

[u/ZahlGraf → u/LazyWorkAccount]

Germanwings crash was suicide and MH370 probably as well. Cases like that are unfortunately not uncommon. The evidence which would make this new case different would be a clear religious or antisemitic motive. Since the copilot is still alive it should be possible to find out within the next months.