When the awful disaster of the Germanwings plane that crashed in the Alps Tuesday killing all on board happened I asked myself how long it would take for the Islamophobic brigade to blame the Muslims. You see, if it is a violent act then it must be a Muslim who did it!

It did not take long for American televangelist Pat Robertson to spin the story that way.  When the French prosecutor announced that the co-pilot intentionally destroyed the Germanwings plane, Robertson went on the offensive with a rhetorical question whose only basis was his prejudice.

“What a terrible tragedy,” Robertson said. “Was that co-pilot a Muslim? Was he suicidal? What was it about him?”

Just for a little bit of context I refer to another infamous statement by this American televangelist of The 700 Club fame. When, a few years ago an earthquake devastated Haiti this ignoramus reminded his followers of a legend which he purported as the truth. He said that the Haitians, to get rid of the French, had made a 200-year pact with the devil. They got rid of the French all right but they got cursed by God in the process, Robertson said. It takes a blasphemer, and a stupid one at that, to say something like this.  However, Robertson said it with a straight face on TV. He said it with the usual pomposity of his and, I guess, in the name of Christ! How awful and disgusting! How can people believe such rubbish?

Back to Germanwings … After it became clear that there was no connection between Lubitz, the co-pilot, and any religious or terrorist group Robertson did say that maybe Lubitz was just psychotic.

Then the European brigade went into action.  According to Michael Mannheimer, a writer for German PI-News, Germany now has its own 9/11, thanks to the convert to Islam, Andreas Lubitz.

PI News is a German blog – that in a condensed form exists also as an English version – which prides itself on its Islamophobia. Unfortunately it is a very popular blog.

Following the search in Lubitz’s home and the investigators’ statement that they found something of great relevance, Mannheimer went ballistic. He invented a lie, implying that the investigators had found evidence that the co-pilot of the plane “in his six-months break during his training as a pilot in Germanwings, converted to Islam and subsequently either by the order of "radical", ie. devout Muslims , or received the order from the book of terror, the Quran, on his own accord decided to carry out this mass murder.”

Later it transpired that the significant development had nothing to do with religion or terrorism. The investigators found evidence that Lubitz had an illness, the nature of which has not been as yet disclosed, as a result of which he had been asked by his doctor not to report to work!

Quite naturally Mannheimer and his ilk will now say that the investigators have invented a sickness to hide the real reason for the massacre, that is Islam.

There is nothing worse than prejudice.

 

 

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