Non-extremist husbands who communicate normally with their exes urged to condemn EgyptAir hijacker

The government has urged all moderate husbands who use normal methods of communication to talk to their ex-wives to condemn the man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane.

The formerly “married man” had been holding seven people hostage aboard an EgyptAir plane after forcing it to divert to Larnaca airport in Cyprus, before demanding to speak to his ex-wife who lives on the island.

“In the wake of the hijacking in Cyprus we urge all sane men capable of having a civilised conversation with their former spouses to publicly denounce their own kind,” said a spokesman for the government.

“For too long men who don’t resort to making fake bomb jackets and hijacking planes just to speak to their ex-wives have remained silent. That silence has now become deafening.”

“Now we demand that even men capable of using the phone or email to speak to their estranged wives speak up against those who prefer to chuck letters out of hijacked planes.”