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A man prayed for safety, and a judge rewarded him with a ten-year prison sentence. Is this the future that liberals envision for us as they try to turn God's favorite country into Europe West?
From the JYT:
Now, I grant that he prayed to the wrong god, namely, the moon demon Allahmode, instead of to Our Lord Jesus Christ. Still, if the Mary-worshipers in Italy can do that to a fellow Christ-hater, then surely they will be even more eager to do so to a True Christian™ once they get the opportunity.
From the JYT:
Pilot Who Prayed Before Crash Sentenced in Italy
In the summer of 2005, when Captain Chafik Gharby lost power in both engines of the small commercial plane he was flying from Italy to Tunisia, he was initially hailed as a hero for bringing the plane down on the sea off Sicily, which allowed 23 of the 39 people on board to swim to safety.
Then the story got more complicated.
During an investigation of the events that led to the crash-landing, Italian authorities recovered the cockpit voice-recorder from the wreckage of the ATR-72 turboprop plane and heard that Captain Gharby had turned the controls over to his co-pilot during the emergency and uttered a prayer, instead of following standard procedures that might have allowed him to land the plane at an airport. In a similar situation two months ago in New York, Captain Chesley Sullenberger took the controls himself before successfully ditching a much larger plane in the Hudson River.
This week the Tunisian pilot was sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter by an Italian judge in Palermo.
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In cockpit recordings entered as evidence he was heard calling for the help of “Allah and Muhammad his prophet.” His lawyer, Francesca Coppi, said: “Faced with danger, he invoked his god, as would any one of us.”
In the summer of 2005, when Captain Chafik Gharby lost power in both engines of the small commercial plane he was flying from Italy to Tunisia, he was initially hailed as a hero for bringing the plane down on the sea off Sicily, which allowed 23 of the 39 people on board to swim to safety.
Then the story got more complicated.
During an investigation of the events that led to the crash-landing, Italian authorities recovered the cockpit voice-recorder from the wreckage of the ATR-72 turboprop plane and heard that Captain Gharby had turned the controls over to his co-pilot during the emergency and uttered a prayer, instead of following standard procedures that might have allowed him to land the plane at an airport. In a similar situation two months ago in New York, Captain Chesley Sullenberger took the controls himself before successfully ditching a much larger plane in the Hudson River.
This week the Tunisian pilot was sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter by an Italian judge in Palermo.
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In cockpit recordings entered as evidence he was heard calling for the help of “Allah and Muhammad his prophet.” His lawyer, Francesca Coppi, said: “Faced with danger, he invoked his god, as would any one of us.”
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