‘Terrain, terrain. Pull up.’

There is a peculiar irony in the case of Hamam al-Hammami.

The Omani co-pilot accused of trying to fly a flydubai jet into Ben Gurion Airport did not, according to the account he gave UAE prosecutors, acquire his hatreds in some lawless corner of the Middle East.

He says he found them in Melbourne, while studying engineering at RMIT, through extremist literature and online content glorifying suicide attacks.

Australia was supposed to be the place that broadened young minds. In his telling, it narrowed one.

Earlier this year, the United Arab Emirates reportedly removed British universities from its approved scholarship list, fearing its students would come home radicalised. Just think about that for a second.