Mainstream media stories are all reporting that Fariq Abdul Hamid was “religious” as if that were an indication that he couldn’t have been involved in the plane’s disappearance. The fact that Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki and Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and Feisal Shahzad and Abdulhakim Mujaid Muhammad and John Walker Lindh and Adam Gadahn and a host of other Islamic jihadists living and dead were or are “religious” never seems to occur to these “journalists” — or maybe they just don’t want it to occur to you.
“Missing flight’s co-pilot was religious, not reckless: family,” by Niluksi Koswanage for Reuters, March 14:
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Friends and family of the co-pilot who flew the missing Malaysia Airlines jet said the 27-year-old was religious and serious about his career, countering news reports suggesting he was a cockpit Romeo who was reckless on the job.
Fariq Abdul Hamid, who joined the national flag carrier in 2007, was helping to fly the Boeing 777 whose disappearance on Saturday has turned into one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.
There has been no trace of the plane carrying 239 people nor any sign of wreckage as the navies and military aircraft of more than a dozen countries scour the seas across Southeast Asia.
Australian media reported that Fariq and a pilot invited two women to join them in the cockpit on a flight from Thailand to Malaysia in 2011, where he smoked and flirted with them.
Jonti Roos, a South African living in Melbourne, confirmed to Reuters that the incident took place but said she did not feel that Fariq behaved irresponsibly.
Malaysia Airlines said it was shocked by the allegations in the report, which was based on photos of the apparent cockpit meeting and an interview with Roos.
Smoking has been banned on almost all commercial flights since the late 1990s. Cockpit doors have been reinforced since the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington and passengers have largely been barred from entering the cockpit during the flight since then.
The report also angered some of Fariq’s friends, some of whom took to social media to rebut the report first aired by Australian Channel Nine’s A Current Affair program.
Fariq, first officer of Flight MH370, had clocked a relatively few 2,700 hours of flying.
He had wanted to become a pilot from his school days, said a relative who asked not to be identified.
“He is a good student. He worked very hard to get where he was. His parents are so proud of him,” said the relative, who had visited Fariq’s family home for prayers in the outskirts of the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
Fariq and his family are Muslims, like a majority of people in the Southeast Asian nation….
“Malaysian jet mystery: Last words from Malaysia plane believed from co-pilot: airline,” from Gulf News, March 17:
KUALA LUMPUR: The last words spoken from the cockpit of the Malaysian passenger jet that went missing 10 days ago were believed to have been spoken by the co-pilot, the airline’s top executive said Monday.
“Initial investigations indicate it was the co-pilot who basically spoke,” Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya told a news briefing.
The last message from the cockpit – “All right, good night” – came around the time that two of the missing plane’s crucial signalling systems were switched off.
Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and his first officer Fariq Abdul Hamid have become a primary focus of the investigation into the fate of Flight 370, with one of the key questions being who was controlling the aircraft when the communications systems were disabled.
The last signal from the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) was received 12 minutes before the co-pilot’s seemingly nonchalant final words.
ACARS transmits key information on a plane’s condition to the ground.
The plane’s transponder – which relays radar information on the plane’s location – was switched off just two minutes after the voice message….
mortimer says
‘Religious’ Muslim? You mean one who believes in Sharia law and the re-establishment of the caliphate, the end of democracy, free speech, women’s rights, and minority rights? Ah…a jihadist.
They are finally admitting what we are saying…the pilot is a ‘religious’ MUSLIM (not a religious Seventh Day Adventist or Buddhist).
A ‘religious’ Muslim is a jihadist.
Denis MacEoin says
That is nonsense. Among 2.6 billion Muslims, there are remarkable differences. Few Sufis engage in violence, the Ahmadis renounce jihad, and the majority of Muslims are peaceful by nature and practice. To make sweeping remarks like yours is to abandon any rational discussion based on facts. Many Muslims are pious, but they don’t think jihad is a proper modern expression of their faith. Rashad Ali has recently published a super monograph on how many classical jurisprudents within Islam showed that continuing jihad was not the only option. You should read it and a lot more besides, because Islam is a nuanced affair and ignorance o;n our side doesn’t help to advance a serious debate.
Buraq says
(@ Denis MacEoin)
Your use of ‘nuanced’ gives you away as a Leftist clown! Also, the number of Muslims world-wide might be around 1.6 billion, but not your estimate, 2.6 billion.
However, the number of Muslims, millions of whom probably have moral standards much higher than their thieving, murdering, pedo pseudo-prophet’, is not the point.
The point is that Islam’s teachings and doctrines command Muslims to ‘kill the infidel wherever you may find them’, and to ‘fight until Islam prevails over all other religions’. And it’s the teachings and doctrine that matter, not individual Muslims who do not follow them to the letter.
Furthermore, Al Qur’an says that those who do not fight, literally, are closer to ‘unbelief’ than to belief. And unbelievers are considered to be apostate and are up for murder according to the four mainstream Islamic schools of jurisprudence.
And as for the Ahmadis who have renounced Jihad, what is happening to them? They are being murdered as fast as their pious brethren can manage.
It’s wire-wigged, baggy-trousered, red-nosed clowns like you that betray us all with your crass stupidity!
Defcon 4 says
@Buraq,
I’ve read there’s some dispute as to whether amadhis have renounced the concept of jihad in its entirety, or just certain aspects of it. In any case, I wouldn’t trust them, because their holiest man is still a lying, mass murdering, Jew hating SoS.
chad says
Go to one of these moderates muslim countries and try to live a peaceful life as a christian and see what happens. Its islam or die. SDounds pretty extreme to me. Not every muslim is a terrorist but EVERY terrorist is a muslim.
QuoVadis says
“Many Muslims are pious, but they don’t think jihad is a proper modern expression of their faith.”
So you’re arguing that there are moderate Muslims. So instead of 1.6 Billion who believe in Jihad it’s 1 Billion who believe in the principle of Jihad.
Who cares. You’re splitting hairs. The point is the Qu’ran clearly teaches Jihad against un-believers.
“Rashad Ali has recently published a super monograph on how many classical jurisprudents within Islam showed that continuing jihad was not the only option.”
Whoever this person is doesn’t matter. The 4 schools of Islamic Jurisprudence ALL teach Jihad against unbelievers. Rashad Ali sounds like a lone voice in a sea of Islamic law advocating Muslims to fight all unbelievers until Islam is the dominant religion.
Angemon says
Denis makes a lot of sweeping PC assumptions but faisl to give any evidence to back his claims. Tell us Denis, what is it like to eat the s*** crapped out by the MB controlled media? If you like it then swallow it whole but for God’s sake, stop regurgitating it here, you’re disgusting the rational thinkers here.
john spielman says
Dear Denis: The problem with Islam is that it is a rigid “WORK’S RIGHTEOUS THEOLOGY” where by one must EARN their admission to “paradise” ( which consists of eternal carnal pleasures of things forbidden on earth – wine, multiple sexual partners,72 virgin young girls and maybe young boys as well) etc. At no time during life is there any certainty of this paradise, and one must wait until the Day of Judgment to find out if your good deeds out way your bad deeds (sins) and there by gain admission to heaven
The pecularity with Islam that makes Islam very dangerous for nonmuslims (and even muslims) them selves, is that JIHAD against unbelievers counts as good works! In fact the ONLY way to bypass this requirment that your good deeds out weigh your bad deeds is that you die while waging war against the unbelievers ( who may be muslims but just not your kind od muslim -shia vs sunni etc). This is why young men and women are raped by older jihadiis so that as they cannot possibly do enough good deeds during there life time to atone for such transgressions they agree to die as suicide bombers.
Rhea says
So True
kevan says
2.6 are billion are you crazy, be lucky if its 1 billion. Every time someone says how many muslims there are it goes up by 100 million.
BlueRaven says
2.6 billion muslims right? All muslim countries are so backward that it will be impossible to go further back in time. They will NEVER allocate resources to keep any good record of their population, because it is not important to them. Who cares if Ali has two kids or twenty. Do you know how many baby girl fetuses they terminate ? Everyone is alarmed about the unnatural disproportional ratio of boys to girls born in Muslim countries and in some it is about 60 to 40. Current gestimate of the Muslim pop is 1.2 billion. Here is something that you forget to mention: over 800 million Muslims are illiterate. Is there anything good about Islam you like to discuss – I am listening.
Mo says
@ Denis MacEoin –
“Among 2.6 billion Muslims, there are remarkable differences.”
Nonsense. There is only one Quran, and says what it says.
Whether individual Muslims choose to follow it is another matter.
gravenimage says
Islam is a nuanced affair…
………………………..
Ah, yes—Islam proves how “nuanced” it is everyday here at Jihad Watrch…sarc/off
Nothosaur says
Dennis MacEoin,
Read the polls that were taken among Muslims. Discover the high percentage of them that hold opinions that atheists and other non-Muslims find to be outrageous.
Then, reconsider your opinion. Do so in an objective manner, without emotion, and let the chips fall where they may.
j_not_a says
2.6 billion muslims?!!! lmao!!! Talk about inflated numbers! You must be one of them, actually, no, scratch that, I have heard muslims exaggerate their numbers before but never this outrageously, you must be a muslim apologist of the most deluded sort. Their numbers, realistically, are about 1.2 or 1.3 billion. There, there good little dhimmi, settle down now.
Petey says
Yes we constantly hear this you cant paint all muslims the same way, yet the more sensitive our media becomes and no matter how much western leaders grovel at the islamic beast before us, the bombing persists, killings and rampages continue all over the world. all with excuses of revenge, were not buying it anymore. piss off troll!
Kelly Kafir says
um… where do you get 2.6 billion Muslims? There are only about 1.2-1.5 billion Muslims… talk about ignorant. There are about 2.1 billion Christians. You really ought to get your facts straight before looking like an idiot on Jihad Watch.
Patil says
Brother, religious muslims have boycotted Ahamadis and sufis. It is banned in Porkistan and saudi desertia
Abdoul abu Allah says
Racist pig, eat halal and die!
Joel says
The little that I have read and heard about halal food, it is quite possible. I was told that there slaughter houses are not quite up to standards, but that governments are afraid (PC?) to do anything.
I have a friend, who some years ago, started a JEWISH KOSHER food line. The imam in his area ( this was a local not national venture) asked if he could buy the food-in quantity-at a discount, as he ( the imam) knew that the quality and cleanlines (in the factory) would be beyond satisfactory.
islamisdeath says
You sir are the racist pig. You are a muslim and muslims believe no one else even has the right to lead a free life, or for that matter to even live at all. Muslims are the mothers of all racism!
Joel says
TO: Isam Is death.
I hope that you were/ are not referring to me. I am definitely not Muslim.
Spent 3 1./2 years in a Jeduit College, for my Bachelor’s degree.
gravenimage says
Joel wrote:
TO: Isam Is death.
I hope that you were/ are not referring to me. I am definitely not Muslim…
……………………….
Trace the “reply” thread back, Joel. Islam is death was replying to the vile Abdoul abu Allah, not to yourself.
QuoVadis says
Islam is not a race. Islam is a religion. Try to remember than before you get pissed off next time.
Fighting against Islam is like fighting against Nazism or Communism.
Daphdong says
I think I agree with Putin. A well aimed bomb at the Kaaba would cut off the Islamic head just as getting rid of Hitler cut off the Nazi head. (at least for a while)
Defcon 4 says
Drink camel urine to your health Abdoul! Camel urine, healthy and sweet, a refreshing treat for every jihadist boy and girl! Prophet recommended, prophet approved.
Xenia says
and the people on the plane? They’re ok yeah? Oh, we’ve side tracked have we?
Xenia says
what a load of utter rubbish. What ARE you guys/gals talking about? Look in the mirror.. look at who you see. Why can’t you just be GOOD and KIND? No kind of book or bible or Koran can teach you what you can’t see in the mirror. Treat ALL people well and you will live a happy life. Grow up, face the truth and get real.
Xenia says
OK, so are we all hoping that the passengers on the plane are safe and well? I hope so because we are all good people right?
Transmaster says
The US Navy has a P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol plane searching the Southern Indian Ocean along the arc where the 777 could have been its search radar can pick up a single beer can floating in the Ocean so if the 777 went down there the P-8 will see the floating wreckage. If it did go down in this area they may never find it in places it is 23,000 plus feet deep.
Brian C. Hoff says
Afew day ago I post on this board that it the plane went to the ocean botton the back box radio willnot travel thought the water to well. Radar is radio wave.
Defcon 4 says
@Jack Me Hoff
Maybe you should swim down to the bottom of the ocean and test your theory ahmed.
Paleologos says
Maybe the morons of mainstream media will stop making comparisons to the plane crash that took pro golfer Payne Stewart’s life …
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/23/stewart.crash.03/
Payne did not have Ali Baba as a pilot, to the best of my knowledge …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3T6vtSNClk
R/
Paleologos
Angemon says
“Payne did not have Ali Baba as a pilot, to the best of my knowledge …
”
4:47 – 5:07
That’s an accurate depiction of what’s happening in Burma.
Jay Boo says
This could just be a case of simple suicide.
Rather than having jihad intent:
He may have woke up one morning and realized the depressing futility of mandatory narcissistic prayers five times a day and rather than deal with the pervading emptiness of Islam creeping into the depths of his soul all alone he selfishly chose to take a planeload of passengers with him just like his depraved satanic influenced prophet Muhammad.
islamisdeath says
My local newspaper headlines say it looks like the pilot committed suicide!!!! Bending over backwards to kiss the hiney of them what wants to kill ya!
Jay Boo says
Islamisdeath
I would suspect you did not read past my first sentence before commenting
veggiedog says
Being that we have a religious Muslim as co-pilot ups the anti.
DJM says
Most vehicles you purchase these days have GPS systems installed which most consumers cannot remove. You’d think aircraft manufacturers would have installed them on all commercial planes in a location no one on-board could disable or remove.
voegelinian says
First sign of the colubrine saboteur: the wild (but carefully placed) inflation by “Denis MacEoin” of the demographic numbers of Muslims:
“That is nonsense. Among 2.6 billion Muslims, there are remarkable differences. ”
1.3 billion Muslims has magically, by the magic marker of the Jihad of the Pen wielded by “Denis MacEoin”, been transformed into 2.6 billion! Prestidijihadation!
gravenimage says
Yes—it’s almost always a bad sign when some poster leads off with a wildly inflated figure for Muslim population.
gravenimage says
And thank you, Voegelinian—I believe I have quite a large vocabulary, but I did have to look up “columbrine”:
“col•u•brineˈkɒl əˌbraɪn, -brɪn, -yə-(adj.)
1. of or resembling a snake; snakelike.
2. belonging or pertaining to the subfamily Colubrinae, of the colubrid snakes.”
Seems most apt.
Mazo says
Again JWatchers don’t look at the context in which his family said he was religious. It was in response to the news reports which showed that he invited several women (not his relatives) into the cockpit of his plane when they were not authorized to be there. They are emphasizing his religious morals because people are insinuating he may have been up to something with those women in the cockpit. His family is trying to say that he isn’t a playboy.
He doesn’t have a beard and if he was really religious (practicing), he likely wouldn’t take this job since he would most likely miss praying time with all the flights he makes.
Champ says
Hamid’s family stated that Fariq was religious, not reckless …so ‘sudden jihad’ strikes again, eh? Right!
RodSerling says
Re “Denis MacEoin,” above, with those standard misleading apologetics, which have been refuted many times, he seems quite different from the real McCoy:
http://www.meforum.org/staff/Denis+MacEoin
Re his reference to “Rashid Ali” and his “super monograph” (!), I don’t have time to track down the document, but I believe that the Rashid Ali he refers to is here (see link below), and from the synopsis there we can see the same apologetics that have been refuted many times.
Rashad Ali: There’s nothing Islamic about murdering civilians
http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2014/02/rashad-ali.html
Yawn.
RodSerling says
typo: “Rashid” Ali should be Rashad Ali.
gravenimage says
Yes—Rashad Ali is one of the Taqiyya artists from the meretricious Quilliam Foundation.
voegelinian says
Mainstream media stories are all reporting that Fariq Abdul Hamid was “religious” as if that were an indication that he couldn’t have been involved in the plane’s disappearance.
If Hamid’s “religion” had been Christianity — particularly “right wing” Christianity (or “conservative” or “fundamentalist” or whatever epithet one wishes to use to denote this incoherent concept) — you can bet your bippie the mainstream news would not be using his religiosity as an exculpatory factor.
Joel says
You forgot to mention– the same if he was Jewish.
Look at Madoff–constant references to his being Jewsh. Look at Ken Lay of Enron infamy–barely a mention that he was an ordained (I believe Baptist or Methodist) minister.
But the Boston Marathon bomers are ” college boys”, as were their friends (with a vabity plate of Terrorist 1, I believe-what has happened to them, by the way?_); and that the Pakistani who tried (I guess 18 months ago or so) to set off a cat bomb in Times Square, Manhattan (New York City) (what has happened to him?)=-religion never mentioned.
But, ou re correct-had the pilot and/or co-pilot been religious Christians, it would be blasted by the lame stream media.
Joel says
next to alst line– But you are —
sorry for the typos
blitz2b says
Voegy….. Because there would be no need to… It would be like… ” move along folks, nothing tho see here…” However these days being Muslim especially a religious one is tinder box. Why? Well, the Koran asks Muslims tho fight and slay unbelievers, coax them to Islam or humiliate and tax them into submission… (Koran 9:29… Read it) where would you find such an injunction in any religious book let alone Christianity, which preaches quite the contrary… “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…” So what exactly would this right wing religious nut do that would harm anyone? Rather if he were following the words of Jesus then your only fear from him would be him spontaneously breaking into songs of prayers tho YHWH… Game over! Thanks for playing…
gravenimage says
Voegelinian knows all this, blitz2b—he is a very sharp poster.
His observation was about the deficiencies of Western media today, with their constant positing of false moral equivalence and worse—not about the actual nature of Christianity.
bill says
I find that account of women in the cockpit difficult to belive as it mentions smoking. Surely there would be alarms on a modern aircraft which would be set off by any smoke. It would also be against regulations to smoke while the plane is in flight
voegelinian says
It seems plausible that a Malaysian airlines is more lax than the tighter ships run by Western airlines. I can even imagine a cockpit door made of bamboo, for Crissakes.
bill says
“All right, good night” Mysterious words?
blitz2b says
“2.6 billion Muslims” on the planet must have been a typo on behalf of this author, however I shudder tho think what the state of this planet will look like… Chaos and mayhem will probably a hundred fold. Europe will have already become islamized, with the Americas in the heels. I would hate to be alive when the whole world become an Islamic cesspool…. Islam MUST die before it is too late…
veggiedog says
If America loses and becomes like Europe and then an extension of Islam (as it is headed) I will more than likely be dead and gone, but my children will not, this is what I fight for. Islam is a cancer, they have not figured out how to wipe that out, so how will they do so with Islam. With our PC population here in the US and in Europe we have doomed ourselves unless we wish to become less PC which to my eyes is the only way to save ourselves.
cheekturner says
Well Denis?……….
Maybe it’s 2.6 trillion.
Well?
“No reply” came the stern answer
voegelinian says
There are two types of troll: 1) the kind that do one-time drives-by tossing a load from their colostomy bag out the window at our establishment to plop on our doorstep then speed away with brakes squealing; 2) the kind that stick around to try to blow clouds upon clouds of noxious smoke of obfuscation in long-winded sophistical replies to other commenters who valiantly take time out to refute them. “Denis MacEoin” would be of the #1 variety.
gravenimage says
Voegelinian wrote:
“Denis MacEoin” would be of the #1 variety.
……………………………..
It certainly appears that way, Voegelinian—and yet, his issue, as you noted, most closely resembles #2…
(Really, I know this is beneath me—I just couldn’t resist…)
Carole63 says
I really wouldn`t fly in an aeroplane with a muslim piloting it!
citycat says
if no phone calls then it could be planned if jamming was set up
if no Muslims no Islam or Allah
Allah dies, Islam was always in the mind creating the will to kill
if no Koran then no Allah, no Muslims, no Islam, no Muhammed
the writers of the koran are the channels of high evil
dumbledoresarmy says
For anyone wanting to get a handle on Islam in Malaysia and in Indonesia, both of which are routinely touted as “tolerant” and “moderate” Muslim countries (never mind that more than a third – 38 percent – of the total population of Malaysia is not Muslim at all), I recommend the sections on Malaysia and on Indonesia in V S Naipaul’s book “Among the Believers” (1981) and in its follow-up, “Beyond Belief” (1998). (The sections on Pakistan and Iran are also very illuminating). What is clear from the second book “Beyond Belief” is that in the course of 17 years all four of the countries Naipaul described in the first book – Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia – had all become (and were still intent on becoming) more heavily Islamised than they had been when Naipaul first visited …and in the process, were being morally, politically, socially, economically and environmentally degraded.
And for further reading on Indonesia, there is also Dutch scholar C S Hurgronje’s “The Acehnese”.
Mazo says
I recommend you actually check on the background of the authors like Naipaul and Hurgronje before humiliating yourself by recommending their books. I doubt you even read the books except excerpts quoted by other people.
Naipaul is a well known mysoginist, wife beater, and spent most of his time degrading ALL non-western societies regardless of religion and praising the west as superior to colored black and brown peoples.
Hurgrongje only had issues with the Acehnese because they resisted the Dutch while he had no problems with Javanese Muslims and he was even friends with the Arab Grand Mufti Sayyid Uthman of Indonesia.
Mazo says
Anyone want to get a handle on the violent, racist, mysogonist, women beating V. S. Naipaul, checked these articles out.
He said some very unflattering things about NON MUSLIM third world countries in Africa and the Carribean to in addition to his repulsive behavior. In fact, all of his works insult non-westerners in General and support neo-colonialism. He is basically a brown sahib and a supporter of western racism against even his own people,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1132743/Misogyny-mistresses-sadism-Why-Nobel-prize-winning-author-VS-Naipaul-centre-vicious-literary-war-decade.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/06/02/136893356/nobel-laureate-v-s-naipaul-says-no-woman-is-his-literary-equal
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/feb/10/vs-naipaul-trinidad-racial-divide
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/books/19garn.html?_r=0
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/vs-naipaul-you-might-not-like-it-but-this-is-africa–exactly-as-i-saw-it-6505873.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/man-without-a-country/308604/
Mazo says
And FYI C. S. Hurgronje just wrote crap about Acehnese in particular since he was fighting them, he didn’t have any problems with Javanese Muslims and he was even friends with the Arab Grand Mufti Sayyid Uthman of Indonesia, calling him an ally and asking him for advice on Islam.