Posted on 07/15/2008 4:34:28 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Lawyers for six Muslim prayer leaders removed from a US Airways jet at Twin Cities International Airport in 2006 told a federal magistrate Monday that they want the airline to divulge 10 years' worth of discrimination complaints so they could compare the airline's behavior before and after the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
Attorneys representing the airline argued they should have to turn over just three years' worth of such data. The reason, said one: 9/11 changed everything.
"The bottom line is we're in a post-9/11 world," US Airways attorney Dane Jaques told U.S. Magistrate Arthur Boylan. "Procedures changed. The world changed. So much changed after 9/11."
But Omar Mohammedi, a lawyer representing the six imams, argued that the information was crucial to the plaintiffs' claim that they were victims of racial profiling, discriminated against because they were Muslims of Middle Eastern descent.
"We know with 9/11 came discrimination," he told the judge. "We want to see what the situation was before 9/11, compared to after 9/11."
Boylan took the matter and several other issues under advisement. There is no timetable for when he'll rule on those issues.
It is uncertain how many other discrimination investigations of US Airways there have been, if any. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings is investigating discrimination complaints stemming from the incident with the imams.
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These bed-sheet draped A$$holes are just harassing the airline. Any sane judge would throw the whole thing out of court and be done with it. GET OVER IT, IDIOTS !
Is there any doubt left that the entire incident was a publicity stunt setup by these demented people?
I thought that this whole sham had died of its own weight long ago.
Apparently, there’s an ambulance chaser left who is desperate for money and needs an issue to propel him into the political arena (the next Jean F’n Kerry?).
“Sorry your Honor, but those early records were kept at the World Trade Center and are no longer available.”
You owe my company a new keyboard.
That was hilarious.
They don’t need to drop bombs or fly planes into buildings. They are successfully destroying us through our open society and political correctness.
“GET OVER IT, IDIOTS !”
I thought this thing was over. I guess not, but if it was a stunt planned from the first, then getting over it is not part of their game plan. Muslims never seem to get over anything.
Exactly....
Perfect!
Sorry for my language but I can not think of a stronger way to say this: F... the rag heads!
They planed and played out thier little game and got called on their actions. I repeat: F... the rag heads!
More sh!t wondering why airplanes have sh!ters to dump these homosexual wasting wastes out.
Write that response on some wood shingles and shove them up the Imams’ asses.
I am so sick and tired of the bitching Islamists — who behave as murderous, anti social feral animals worldwide, then come here as the enemy and demand “respect and “subservient” ass kissing from their host country...
If they keep this up — I'm hoping there are still folks here who will make them more than “upset” and “uncomfortable”
These sheet heads can't go about doing the equivalent of “flashing gang signs” and not get whacked by the home boys.
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