India -- Airplane Hijaking

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MSNBC currently breaking news -- airline w/178 people hijaked in India -- they did land but have now taken off w/passengers still onboard. Shots were fired while on ground and unconfirmed reports that 4 people were killed.

-- claurann (claurann@aol.com), December 24, 1999

Answers

For those w/knowledge of the Muslim faith -- what are their feelings related to the Christian holiday of Christmas? Have such a limited knowledge of Muslims, maybe time to go research on the encyclopedia.

-- claurann (claurann@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

Clurann,

You might look at alt.religion.islam and ask that question there.

-- Z (Z@Z.Z), December 24, 1999.


...and this relates to Y2K how?

-- Mr. T (MrT@t.com), December 24, 1999.

Adds to TERRORISM frenzy, the official cover for Y2K.

-- wake up (bleeping@idiots.duh), December 24, 1999.

This is going to end up being a big deal.

Hijacked Jet Heads to Afghanistan

Anybody connecting the dots yet?

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), December 24, 1999.



For the Moslems this is the holy month of Ramadan--let's face it, not a good time for hijacking others. Also, Air India is undoubtedly run by Hindus, not Christians. To quote a guy I happen to like, "Why can't we all just get along?"

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

claurann,

For further info, see previous thread:

http://18.24.3.72/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00261P

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), December 24, 1999.


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