The passengers on the flight should have recognized, as they have been told by CNN, the New York Times and others, that “Allahu akbar” is a benign and even beautiful phrase, and opened the cockpit door to him, so as not to appear to be “Islamophobic.”

“Transavia passenger shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ and tries to enter cockpit as plane is diverted,” by Tom Davidson, Mirror, January 25, 2019: