More DIY Profiling

The Stiletto Blog ^ | November 24, 2006 | The Stiletto

[theothercheek]

In yet another example of airline passengers going on their gut instincts to identify potential threats to their safety in the absence of effective screening procedures at airports that can spot the terrorists amongst them, six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix after a passenger passed a note to a flight attendant reporting “suspicious activity.”

According to BBC News, “The men were told to disembark shortly after saying evening prayers. Three of the six had stood as they prayed. … police were called after the men refused to get off the flight when asked to do so by the captain and airport security workers. The men deny that they refused to leave the plane and other reports that they chanted "Allah" while being escorted off, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).”

CAIR spokesperson Ibrahim Hooper tells BBC News that, “Unfortunately, this is a growing problem of singling out Muslims or people perceived to be Muslim at airports,” and attributes the problem to “anti-Muslim hysteria by the passengers and/or the airline crew.”

The Stiletto would like to reiterate that if the flying public and airline personnel had confidence in the Transportation Safety Administration’s aviation security procedures and in the quality of the training airport screeners receive, such incidents would not happen. As usual, CAIR is crying “racism” instead of descrying ineffectual screening procedures that imperil the lives of Muslims – along with anyone else – who happen to be unlucky enough to be flying on a plane hijacked by Islamofascists.

If the TSA is unwilling or unable to implement a passenger screening program that is as effective as Israel’s, Ann Coulter’s tongue-in-cheek solution might be the next best thing: “Six imams removed from a US Airways flight ... are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.”

NOTE: This is the second article in a feature called The Daily Blade, and appears beneath an article titled "CA City May Ban Smoking At Home." The original source has links to relevant articles and Web sites.

[longtermmemmory]

another blind muslim cleric being loud about anti-americanism and these six idiots did everything in their power to look just like terrorists of all prior history. OF COURSE passengers are right to react as they reasonably did.

I am surprised we don't have more violence when muslims expose themselves.

[theothercheek]

They were there to give CAIR more ammunition in its ongoing series of "reports" on the huge "anti-Muslim backlash" in the US. Meanwhile the FBI finds that for every Muslim that was the victim of a hate crime, seven Jews were. Funny thing is that every time there is Muslim violence (like that student who deliberately ran down a bunch of people with his SUV at a university while shouting Allah Akbar!) CAIR immediately issues another one of its "anti-Muslim backlash reports." (By the way, The Stiletto writes about CAIR a lot - if you use the search engine you can find the articles.)