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[bryant]

I am eternally grateful for the presence of sane people on this planet.

A summary: Annie Jacobsen got worried because she was on a flight with a number of Middle Eastern men acting in a manner which she found suspicious. Cue blogosphere firestorm. Some people pointed out that no responsible flight attendant would act as described. But, you know, evil Muslims are a better story.

And the aforelinked sane person said "You know... that's what devout Muslims do on long flights. They pray, because they need to pray five times per day."

Comments

[kodi]

Wow. It's a good thing the last time I was on a flight with a high school choir (note that U.S. high school students are also a known terrorist group) was before September 11th - their behavior was twenty times more conspirational than that! (Although they did all board together - I guess that makes them safe.)

It's weird, innit? People who know each other and aren't doing anything wrong have a good reason to act like they know each other, and communicate. People who know each other and intend to do something wrong generally try to avoid calling attention to themselves.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Another sane person:

http://www.donaldsensing.com/