Passengers help foil attack on Detroit-bound plane

From AP News on Saturday:

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) - An attempted terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight began with a pop and a puff of smoke - sending passengers scrambling to subdue a Nigerian man who claimed to be acting on orders from al-Qaida to blow up the airliner, officials and travelers said.

The commotion began as Northwest Airlines Flight 253, carrying 278 passengers and 11 crew members from Amsterdam, prepared to land in Detroit just before noon Friday. Travelers said they smelled smoke, saw a glow, and heard what sounded like firecrackers. At least one person climbed over others and jumped on the man, who officials say was trying to ignite an explosive device.

I delayed blogging today for a reason I'll indicate below; after that, the first thing I encountered on the internet was this story.

After reading, I was heartened and then resolved. But I must elaborate on my resolution and thusly:

America, you need to wake up. Yes, the times are tough, making many of us tend to focus only on ourselves and our plight.

We need to continue to recognize that their are forces, foreign and domestic, who wish for a myriad of reasons to bring down this country.

It's bad enough that, domestically, Mr Obama and his administration -- yes, our own government -- wishes to bring down a good portion of the structure of our nation (elucidated in the Cloward-Piven Strategy, the likes of which I introduced here). This is sufficiently horrible on its face and must be factored and dealt with.

But we've seemingly forgotten about one aspect of our foreign enemies -- Islamists. And what they want to do to our country, IN this country.

And I can only hope this is a Wake Up Call for us, as citizens of the United States. And that we heed the call.

There are those, some who read this blog, who say that radical Islamists compromise only a very small percentile of the "good and honorable" members of the religion of Islam.

But just how many radical Islamists do you need to sour a nation, a series of nations, a movement, an entire religion, with violence, cowardice and hate?

I said then and I say now: Islam is as Islam does.

It is no more complicated than that.

You need to wake up America. Wake UP. Islamists are in our midst. We still seem to think that Islam is comprised of only people who "look" like they source from the Middle East. That is amazingly incorrect.

The greatest number of Muslims live in Asia (Indoesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh) and Africa (Egypt, Nigeria).

Islam plots and Islam plans: Al Jazeera, a propaganda organ for Islamists, would have you believe that fully half the occupants of the US think 9/11 was staged.

Throwing acid in the face of women who fail to don the hijab,[1] flogging people for sporting non-Islamic haircuts, and stoning to death violators of sexual norms are only a few examples of a raft of daily barbaric acts of Islamists in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and many Islamic lands. Other forms of Islamic brutalities such as Honor Killing[2] have already found their way to Germany and other European countries with the ever-burgeoning Muslim populations.

Further, in America:

Some 26 percent of American Muslims, ages18-29, support suicide bombings "in defense of Islam," according to findings of a recent Pew poll.

Read the full report here.

Islam is a cancer upon this planet. There may be some "good" or "nice" Muslims extant, of course; but they are so cowed by the radically-violent elements meaning, again, that Islam is as Islam does.

Upon learning of this recent event, my wife said: "They (the passengers) should have thumped him until he died."

I cannot say as I disagree.

BZ

THIS JUST IN:

Jasper Schuringa has been identified as the Northwest Airlines passenger who helped subdue an alleged terrorist as he tried to detonate explosives on board flight 253.

A high-ranking law enforcement official told CBS News that the suspect, identified by multiple sources as 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab apparently used a syringe to inject a chemical into powder located near his groin, a technique not seen in previous attempted attacks.

One passenger made the difference.

The spirit of Flight 93 continues to show that determination can make all the difference in the world.

Video here.

Mark Steyn wrote:

On September 11th 2001, the government’s (1970s) security procedures all failed, and the only good news of the day came from self-reliant citizens (on Flight 93) using their own wits and a willingness to act.

On December 25th 2009, the government’s (post-9/11) security procedures all failed, and the only good news came once again from alert individuals.