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You folk can read, can you not?

A large measure of airplane crashes during the past twenty years have been linked to Muslim extremists. Right?

A plane in Lexington went down and killed 49 people.

Out of 500 hundred posts to this thread no one here even suggested a possible Muslim connection.

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A large measure of airplane crashes during the past twenty years have been linked to Muslim extremists. Right?

No. You could count the number of actual crashes linked to Muslim extremists on one hand.

A large measure of airplane crashes during the past twenty years have been linked to Muslim extremists. Right?

No, most have been simple, or more often complex, accidents. The terrorist attacks are just more spectacular, especially the ones on 9-11 where the aircraft were flown into buildings on the ground, killing way more than the folks on the aircraft.

You folk can read, can you not? A large measure of airplane crashes during the past twenty years have been linked to Muslim extremists. Right? A plane in Lexington went down and killed 49 people. Out of 500 hundred posts to this thread no one here even suggested a possible Muslim connection.

We can also reason. Let's think this through. We know that the crash was due to pilot error - the physical facts on the ground have already confirmed that. Given that, the following would need to be true:

1. The Muslim extremist pilot was named Jeff Clay.
2. Clay waited seven years for the most opportune moment to wreak terror - and that opportunity was...a 50 passenger regional jet in Lexington, KY.
3. Clay's flightpath would have taken him to a major US city and the busiest US airport. Yet instead of attempting to crash the plane in Atlanta, he instead went with an empty field in Kentucky.

Put in those terms, terrorism makes absolutely no sense in this case. The best explanation is generally the simplest.

Out of 500 hundred posts to this thread no one here even suggested a possible Muslim connection.

Various terrorist-related scenarios came up early, and were dismissed for lack of evidence. More recently on the thread, the apparently overwhelming case for an erroneous short-runway takeoff makes any causal "Muslim connection" seem pretty unlikely.

Airplanes crashed before terrorists began bringing them down. We don't help our cause or our forum by "crying 'wolf'" or giving them credit for -- and terroristic effect from -- everything bad that happens.

Out of 500 hundred posts to this thread no one here even suggested a possible Muslim connection.

No need to suggest it. I doubt Muslim extremists were rseponsible for the pilot trying to take off on the wrong runway.