JFK (airport) illegally targeting Muslims, groups say [ACLU/CAIR Alert]

Newsday ^ | August 24, 2006 | BRYAN VIRASAMI

[West Coast Conservative]

Muslim, Arab and South Asian passengers are racially profiled at Kennedy Airport by Homeland Security officers, including hundreds who were singled out for detention on the day of the recent London terrror arrests, civil liberties groups said Wednesday.

The groups highlighted the case of a New Jersey family that was detained and interrogated after a flight from Dubai last week. The family, a mother and her 20-year-old twin daughters from Montclair, NJ, said they were plucked from the baggage area, held six hours without food or water by Customs and Border Protection agents and questioned about their views of Iraq.

Nahgam Alyaqoubi and her daughters, Arwa and Sumia Ibrahim, naturalized American citizens, said 200 other passengers of Arab, Muslim or South Asian backgrounds were detained on Aug. 15 in a roped off area, days after the London bomb suspects were arrested.

The family joined officials from the American Civil Liberties Union and other rights groups at a news conference in Council on American-Islamic Relations office in in Manhattan to condemn what they say was an increase in racial profiling. They also criticized Rep. Peter King for endorsing profiling.

Arwa Ibrahim, who along with her sister, is enrolled at Rutgers University, said they were born in Iraq and moved to the United States at age 5. She said the experience was disturbing because they were forced to sit on the floor without food or water and were treated rudely when they asked questions of the officers.

"It was a really humiliating experience -- humiliating because we were treated like animals," she said. "We were treated really horribly by the officers that were there, we were yelled at, we were told to get back, threathened with arrest and threathened to have to stay longer if we complained."

[Kimmers]

Oh darn.....

[Tamar1973]

...held six hours without food or water...

Oh, poor babies! /sarcasm

[xcamel]

And this is a problem how?

[Millee]

Muslim, Arab and South Asian passengers are racially profiled at Kennedy Airport by Homeland Security officers

Three cheers for Kennedy Airport Homeland Security officers.

[phil1750]

I hope we are finally profiling.

[stm]

Stop pointing fingers at us. If we are overly sensitive to them, it is their own fault. We're not the terrorists

[eeevil conservative]

Muslim, Arab and South Asian passengers are racially profiled at Kennedy Airport by Homeland Security officers

GOOD!

[rawcatslyentist]

But the slimes targeting civilians, women, and children, is perfectly Okely dokely wid them!

After allah, muuuhamhed (Pigs be inseminating her) commands it to be that way!

[gas0linealley]

If you don't want to do a job...you do it badly, hoping that your boss will decide it isn't really worth the trouble.

[Dominick]

They were not beaten, they were not tossed into a cell, and they were not fed into a meat grinder.

All those things were pretty routine in Iraq under Hussein.

These people would approve us leaving Iraq alone.

[SkyPilot]

So we in the West had the audacity to question these people for a few hours, while Muslims the heads off of people they kidnap.

I can see why CAIR is so outraged. I mean, these people at JFK were yelled at!

[kromike]

So?

[eeevil conservative]

[Nachum]

Tough

[shankbear]

It has been nothing but these a-hole Muzlims who have blown up buildings, run jet airplanes into buildings full of innocent people and beheading innocents. They are a scourge on the face of this earth. They need to be destroyed. Fully, completely and finally destroyed. Whatever it takes in whatever country that harbors these thugs. They have to die. Now...not later.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

The Synagogues of Satan are at it again.

[MAexile]

Well good!

I was starting to think of the TSA as being like the airport screener from Airplane II.

(If anyone does not know what I'm talking about, you are instructed to rent the DVD, and begin watching ASAP. Don't worry, it's early in the movie.)

[divine_moment_of_facts]

[shankbear]

Violins in the middle east? Just a little violins in the middle east.