Air travellers in Australia have regained the right to board an aircraft carrying a whole range of things that were previously banned. Little old ladies can happily continue their knitting now that knitting needles have been removed from the list, and innocuous items such as nail clippers and umbrellas will no longer have to be abandoned in the departure lounge.
That is the good new for air travellers. The bad news is that you may be travelling with a fellow passenger who intends to crash the plane. Maybe you would treat someone from the Middle East with suspicion, but a recent " mad bomber " hailed from Nigeria - in Africa - and was influenced by al Qaeda.
This character smuggled some sort of powder and some sort of liquid onto the aircraft, found a way to mix them together - and then tried to set them off to create an explosive.
The result was more akin to a mild fire cracker, but he did manage to injure himself - and he was jumped on by fellow passengers and will now probably spend the rest of his life in an American prison.
The sad thing is that just when the world is slowly recovering from the threat of an economic depression we have people so immersed in politics and religion that they think they are achieving something by sacrificing their own lives in a glorious suicide attempt to harm a whole bunch of otherwise innocent people.
When you want to kill people you absolutely do not know - because some religious zealot makes that request - it throws the whole concept of religion into question.
Perhaps religion has not advanced further from the days when human sacrifices were offered to the Gods to promote a good harvest !
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