Juan Cole Presumes Stupid Things about Ukrainians

I don’t like Juan Cole, people. He is so uneducated and unintelligent and so deeply proud of it that it’s sad. See the following, for instance:

The Associated Press article on the Ukrainian hijacker who tried to divert a plane to Sochi on Friday is interesting for the words it does not use. . . Note that this Ukrainian, presumably an Eastern Orthodox Christian, threatened to blow up an airplane full of innocents.

Why, on God’s green Earth, is a random Ukrainian drunk presumed to be “an Eastern Orthodox Christian” (whatever that even is)? Among the few religious people in the country, many are Catholic and there is a growing number of Protestants. There are also some Jews and some Muslims. However, religious people constitute a tiny minority. It makes zero sense to presume that a Ukrainian practices any religion. And anybody who knows anything about the history of our country realizes that.

It would be very nice if Mr. Cole could stop projecting his obsession with religion onto other cultures.