Posted on 08/23/2006 6:15:24 PM PDT by 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."
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The idiots. McVeigh is connected to radical Islam. To wit,
Clinton intelligence czar Richard Clarke wrote in "Against All Enemies," "We do know that [Tim McVeigh's co conspirator Terry] Nicholas' bombs did not work before his Philippine stay and were deadly when he returned." That was a conclusion after Clarke noted that it's possible that al-Qaida members in the Philippines taught Terry Nichols how to make bombs. I believe that it is true that intelligence sources do place Nichols there on the same days as Ramzi Yousef.
When the idiots stop screaming McVeigh's name they scream abortion clinic bomber Rudolph's name.
The idiots feeeeeeeeeeeeeeel that both Mc Veigh and Rudolph "bombed for Jesus."
Neither was a Christian.
"[Eric Robert Rudolph] loved philosophy, especially Nietzsche." (My emphasis) He was an anti-Semite who used marijuana and he sold marijuana for a living. He was a white supremacist who despised the aborting of white babies. See Southern Poverty Law Center (yes, that SPLC) at
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=161
Thank you, you leftist idiots. You make our case: the problem is solely islamonazis!
But.. add to the profiling; to wit, ask other-than-Muslim travelers, do you know any radical Muslims? Do you believe in the radical Muslim nazi-like ideology?
Since when are murderous muslim-islamist-arab terrorists, a race?
They're subhuman filth. Garbage. Trash. Lowlife dirtbags. 7th century 'untermensch'.
Profiling is a time-tested, tried-and-true, valid law enforcement technique. USE IT, DAMMIT!
I'd like to send a fruit basket to the supervisor who decided that taking the heat for racial profiling was worth it when evidence of a real threat was known.
I can put up with the whining liberal media's opposition to racial profiling when there's no known and active threat involving airplanes. But I can't put up with their insistence that we pretend Muslims are not the source of the threat when there is an active threat to our safety in the offing.
If a bank received a tip that a middle aged, bald man was going to rob them on a certain date- they'd be remiss in not searching every middle aged, bald men who walked through their doors. Heck, they'd probably be liable.
Who cairs?
Multiple Choice Test
1. In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles by
(a) Superman,
(b) Jay Leno,
(c) Tiger Woods,
(d) a man from Palestine between 17 and 40 years old.
2. In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and killed at the Munich Olympics by
(a) the kid who cuts your grass,
(b) Sitting Bull,
(c) Arnold Schwarzenegger,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the US Embassy in Tehran was over-ran & 90 Americans were held for 444 days by
(a) Bruce Lee,
(b) Elvis Presley's deceased twin brother,
(c) a tour group of Minnesota grandmothers,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980s, several Americans were kidnapped in Beirut by
(a) O J Simpson,
(b) the king of Sweden,
(c) the pope and a gang of Cardinals,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon was blown up, killing 220 Marines, by
(a) a Domino's Pizza delivery man,
(b) the president of the Southern Baptist Convention,
(c) Catherine Zeta-Jones,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
6. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70-year-old American passenger thrown overboard in his wheelchair by
(a) Sugar Ray Leonard,
(b) your next door neighbor,
(c) the Little Mermaid,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
7. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by
(a) Captain Kangaroo,
(b)Walt Disney,
(c) Mother Teresa,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
8. In 1988, Pan American Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb in midair by
(a) Butch Cassidy,
(b) the Sundance Kid,
(c) the Tooth Fairy,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
9. The World Trade Center was bombed the first time in 1993 by
(a) Stonewall Jackson,
(b) Michael Jordan,
(c) Winston Churchill,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
10. In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by
(a) Santa Claus,
(b) your sister's cat's grandmother's first owner's son's basketball coach's ex-wife,
(c) the World Wrestling Federation,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
11. On September 11, 2001, airliners were hijacked to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by
(a) Bugs Bunny,
(b) Bob the Tomato,
(c) Ricky Martin,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
12. In 2002, Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal was kidnapped and beheaded by
(a) Bonnie and Clyde,
(b) the Michelin man,
(c) Barney Fife,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
13. In July of 2005, several targets were attacked in central London, killing 52 persons, by
(a) the Orkin Man,
(b) Margaret Thatcher,
(c) Mr. Goodwrench,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
add the USS Cole, Nick Berg's beheading and the Barcelona bombings...plus
May 13,1981, 23-year-old Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca shot Pope John Paul II three times.
Sgt. Hasan Akbar is accused of stealing the grenades and attacking fellow members of the 101st just days into the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. In addition to the two people killed, 14 soldiers were injured.
and John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, The DC snipers.
where is the cair of cair?
that one is self explainatory.
where is the aclu of aclu?
only thing I can figure is maybe they are attempting to hide their true intent behind all those fancy letters / letterings.....
personally both of these organization make me very ill to the point of nearly and sometimes hurling.....
I guess Granny got tired of being felt up.....
no wonder she threw up.....
If only our airports were profiling.
I agree with the practice of profiling. However, did these folks do anything to warrant being held for six hours without food or water? What took Homeland Security so long to establish whether they were a threat?
Funny! They haven't said anything about "Muslims Illegally Targeting Airplanes".
How do you say T S in Arabic?
"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."
#1. If you act like animals, that's how we'll treat you.
#2. If you don't like it, leave and don't come back. We'll both be a lot happier.
Way to go, JFK. Your namesake would have approved.
I wonder how many abortion clinics there are in Saudi Arabia.
Good point... Where are OUR civil rights to be able to fly without fear of being blown up?
ping for future reference
Somebody call PETA!!!!
The argument, 'it's only a very small % of Muslims that are terrorists', is eclipsed by the fact that almost 100% the terrorists are Muslim.
2001/9/23 UK Cambridge 1 0 17-year-old beaten with a hammer and stabbed to death by Muslim gang in Britain. (Ross Parker murder).
2002/6/2 UK Orpington, Kent 1 0 33-year-old British man beaten to death by Muslim gang.
2003/1/11 UK Birmingham 1 0 21-year-old woman stabbed to death by Pakistani on her wedding day for rejecting an arranged Muslim marriage.
2003/1/14 UK Manchester 1 0 Detective, father of three, stabbed to death by Muslim terrorist.
2005/7/7 UK London 52 750 Islamic terrorists massacre more than fifty commuters on three separate subway trains and a double-decker bus on the street with four suicide bombs. Over seven-hundred people are injured.
2002/1/6 USA Tampa, FL 1 0 Fifteen year-old flies plane into an office building in Tampa. Suicide note reveals his admiration for Osama Bin Laden and desire to commit a terrorist attack.
2002/10/11 USA Fredericksburg, VA 1 0 Muslim sniper kills 53-year-old man.
2002/10/14 USA Falls Church, VA 1 0 Muslim sniper kills 47-year-old woman.
2002/10/2 USA Wheaton, MD 1 0 Muslim sniper kills 55-year-old man.
2002/10/22 USA Silver Spring, MD 1 0 Muslim sniper kills 35-year-old bus driver.
2002/10/3 USA Maryland 5 0 Muslim sniper kills three men and two women in five separate attacks.
2002/10/9 USA Manassas, VA 1 0 Muslim sniper kills 53-year-old man.
2002/7/4 USA Los Angeles 2 0 Muslim gunman kills two people waiting at the El Al counter in the LAX airport.
2002/9/21 USA Montgomery, AL 1 1 Muslim sniper kills one woman and injures another.
2002/9/23 USA Baton Rouge 1 0 Muslim sniper shoots Korean mother in the back.
2003/8/6 USA Houston, TX 1 0 After undergoing a religious revival, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man.
2004/4/13 USA Raleigh 1 4 Mental health problems behind member of tight-knit Muslim community deliberately running down five strangers with a vehicle? One died.
2004/4/15 USA Scottsville, NY 1 2 Muslim kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested and wanted to restore their "honor."
2004/6/10 USA Atlanta, GA 0 4 A man riding on an Atlanta commuter train mutters Qur'anic verses then attacks an army officer for no other apparent reason. An elderly woman and two arresting officers are hurt as well.
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