Thanks for the thread, mureil_volestrangler.

The plane disappeared a few days after the railway platform knife attacks.

Are you suggesting one of the pilots crashed the plane on purpose to make a statement?

Allah himself is displeased with the Chinese government and has made a plane full of Chinese nationals simply disappear.

But yes, a deliberate ditching at the deepest and most remote location in the Indian Ocean.

you want to call them use tactics in their attacks that are highly visible, they want the world and in this case especially China to know what they were doing.

Ditching the plane in the middle of a remote area of the ocean leaves too much up to speculation, perhaps it was an accident or malfunction? This would dampen or altogether eliminate their message of martyrdom.

The M.O. just doesn't seem to match up to me.

And if it was an uncoordinated act of one devout individual, then what group can make a credible claim?

Although someone calling themself the Chinese Martyrs Brigade apparently tried but was dismissed as fraudulent.

there would be no bombings and rebellions like this.

Real communism is all about communal sharing. The complete paragraphs containing Marx's statement of the creed in the 'Critique of the Gotha Program' is as follows:

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

A society with all the springs of co-operative wealth flowing abundantly does not create bombers and terrorists.

China is fully in the grips of totalitarian capitalism and both develop the worst in humankind.

In an ideal society, people would be so comfortable that nationality or religion wouldn't matter to them; but nowhere, capitalist, communist or anything else, has got anywhere near being ideal.

But we all seem to get capitalism.

I think religion and nationalism wouldn't rear their ugly heads if economic systems were fair. When economic systems condemn millions to poverty, like capitalism always does, then the people must turn to something for hope. That's when the ugly destructive side of religion and politics come out to play.

Most economist like to pretend that nationalism, politics, religion and economics are all separate and distinct little worlds. But they all feed off of each other like most social systems.