I’d like to know the thought process behind this one:

A Turkish Airlines plane carrying more than 100 passengers from Tirana, Albania, to Istanbul, was hijacked Tuesday and landed at Italy’s Brindisi airport, company spokesman Ali Genc said.

The plane was hijacked in Greek airspace, Genc said.

Turkish television channel NTV, quoting unnamed security officials, reported that the plane was hijacked by two Turks to protest Pope Benedict XVI’s planned visit to Turkey next month. (emphasis mine)

Simpler minds out there look at stuff like this & conclude that what the pope said that 14th century emperor said that the pope quoted was correct. So why do it?

This would be like if in response to remarks by some moralist type calling libertarians irresponsible brats we decided to go drunk driving.

Edit @ 2:10AM EST 100406 — Associated Press fucked up. The moron that jacked the plane was actually a converted christian who thought he couldn’t serve in a “muslim army”. So rather than this being an example of illogical action in the name of islam, it’s illogical action in the name of christianity. Props to Emre for alerting me to this correction.

Gee…notice that atheists don’t tend to do this kind of shit?