A Nigerian former Bank President and Govt Minister who has a house in London and visits the US for medical treatment is probably a former corrupt Minister from Nigeria. The chance of the guy being clean is remote. He may be a moderate Muslim and pro-west, but he ain’t clean. Just my experience in doing business in Nigeria that leads me to that belief.
So let’s not heap praise on this guy, he probably didn’t want his son to jeopardize his visa’s to UK and US.
Matter of fact, this is a bit off topic, but the banker probably told authorities that his son shouldn’t be allowed to fly because he wanted to avoid precisely what happened—his son flew, tried to commit a terrorist act, and was burned and captured. Or alternately, managed to blow up the plane and was killed.
In other words, was he concerned to protect a bunch of white passengers, or was he concerned to keep his son out of trouble? The obvious assumption is that his son kept talking about blowing up planes and his father thought, well, if we can keep him off of planes, then maybe we can keep him out of trouble.
Little did he think that the authorities would fail to put him on the do not fly list, and then would let him on board the nearest plane, and would do so even though he didn’t have a passport.
His son’s too old to lock him in his bedroom or spank, but at least he could be kept away from airplanes. I don’t know, but I suspect that’s what the father was thinking. Little did he know how stupid western security can be.
A moderate Muslim = A Muslim interested only in killing Jews.
A radical Muslim = A Muslim interested in killing Jews, Christians, and everyone who isn’t a Muslim.