A High Five To Those Who Jacked The Hijackers

I love it when a plan plane comes together.

Two men who allegedly tried to hijack a plane in China were beaten to death by passengers and crew.

The Global Times newspaper reported that two of the suspects died in hospital from injuries they suffered during the ensuing fight with passengers and crew on board.

The men were part of a six-strong gang involved in the foiled hijack of a Tianjin Airlines flight bound for the regional capital of Urumqi last Friday.

Just minutes after the flight took off from Hetian, southwest Xinjiang, the men, all aged between 20 and 36, stood up and announced their plans to terrified passengers.

The gang reportedly broke a pair of aluminium crutches and used them to attack passengers while attempting to break into the cockpit, Hou Hanmin, a regional government spokeswoman said.

They were tackled by police and passengers who tied them up with belts before the plane, carrying 101 people, returned to the airport safely just 22 minutes later.

Hanmin added that police were still testing materials they had been carrying, thought to be explosives.

Can you guess the religion of the would-be hijackers?

The men were reported to be Uighurs, the local Muslim ethnic minority. There have been clashes between authorities and Uighurs resentful of government controls over their religion and culture.

Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the German-based World Uyghur Congress which campaigns for Uighurs’ rights, said that it wasn’t a hijacking attempt, rather an in-flight brawl over a seat dispute.

“We warn China not to use this incident as another excuse for crackdown,” he said in an emailed statement.

A warning, huh?

Yep, it was just a brawl.

7 thoughts on “A High Five To Those Who Jacked The Hijackers”

  1. “Can you guess the nationality of the would-be hijackers?”

    It’s not about their nationality, any more than our local conflict is really about nationality. It’s about their religion.

    “…the German-based World Uyghur Congress…”

    Looks like there are CAIRs everywhere. Another illegal front-group for Islamic imperialism.

      1. I thought it was just an oversight by association—as in, “Everybody knows the Uyghurs are adherents of the ROP™.” Thanks for the correction.

  2. I think there’s a saying “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims.”
    Ughuirs are an ethnic minority, not just a religion, and to be fair, they really are persecuted in China, as are all groups seeking to follow a religion.

    1. “I think there’s a saying ‘Not all Muslims are terrorists,…”

      That’s true, but it’s no big help, because, while the active jihadists are few, their supporters are very many. Most Muslim believers—and indeed most Muslims are believers, because the Enlightenment skipped over the Islamic world—view the jihad, including the terrorist attacks involved, as just.

      “Ughuirs are an ethnic minority, not just a religion,…”

      Of course. The one doesn’t exclude the other. But when Islam enters the equation, even a genuine national separatist movement (which our local Phakestinian “struggle” isn’t) automatically becomes also part of the Islamic imperialist agenda.

      “…and to be fair, they really are persecuted in China, as are all groups seeking to follow a religion.”

      The fact that they are Muslims, therefore supporters of our local Muslim would-be murderers by nature, means Israeli Jews shouldn’t take their side for any reason. The turncoating of Iran and now Turkey ought to have taught us this lesson already.

  3. Hundra the Warrior Woman

    You have got to admire the passengers, it takes a lot of courage to confront a terrorist.

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