How Was the Jihadi Pilot Cleared to Fly?

It has been 25 years since 19 Muslims hijacked planes and flew them into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, while courageous passengers thwarted their attempt to hit a third target in Washington, D.C. You’d think that since then, sensible measures would have been instituted to prevent that kind of jihad attack from happening again.

Airlines might think twice, for example, about employing pilots who hold to the same ideology as the 9/11 hijackers, for there is no way to tell if that ideology might lead them once again to attempt mass murder in the skies in order to soothe the heart of their bloodthirsty god. But of course, no airline did anything to prevent Muslims from becoming pilots, or to try to screen the