Well, here’s a new take on air security. Dismantle all that TSA apparatus and stock airports with black goats! Imagine how safe and secure you would feel crossing the tarmac to board that flight and spotting the goat’s carcass and the blood flowing out. Now way could that plane possibly crash now!

Seriously, this highlights the fact that the West is facing now, and will increasingly face in the future, a clash of two vastly different views of the world and of reality itself. To think that Western countries can admit large numbers of people with such an enormously different mindset and that there will be no civil strife or upheaval is naive. And no, I don’t think that every Muslim migrant thinks that sacrificing a black goat will keep an air flight safe. But to assume that this incident is not indicative of a massively different perspective and worldview would likewise be naive.

“PIA: on a wing and a prayer,” by Mohammad Asghar, Dawn, December 18, 2016: