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'Extremist' British Muslim kicked off U.S. flight
Daily Mail ^ | 10/20/06 | Ben Taylor

Posted on 10/21/2006 2:36:50 PM PDT by LibWhacker

A leading British Muslim was kicked off a flight to the USA because of his links to an 'extremist' youth group.

Kamal Helbawy, 67, a founding member of the Muslim Association of Britain, was told by airline staff he was barred from flying to New York shortly before the plane was due to leave London Heathrow.

Egyptian-born Mr Helbawy has previously been criticised for his links to the increasingly radical World Assembly of Muslim Youth - which he co-founded several decades ago.

He has denied that it is extreme and says he severed connections with it 20 years ago.

On Thursday morning, he attempted to catch a flight for New York where he was due to speak at a conference.

Karen Greenberg, a conference spokeswoman, said Mr Helbawy did not know why he had been stopped from travelling to the United States.

'What they told him was that basically he would have to go to the American Embassy first before he could come here,' she said.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security in the USA said: 'The individual was inadmissible to enter the U.S. I can't speak specifically to this case as to why he was inadmissible.'

'The U.S. government's action in this case should not be construed as a blanket U.S. policy against Muslim religious leaders. Indeed hundreds of imams from all over the world have visited and continue to visit the United States,'

She added that more than 1,000 people are denied entry to the United States every day.

Travellers can be denied entry for several reasons including improper travel documents, smuggling of contraband, criminal activity or history, immigration violations and watch list match or national security concerns.'

Mr Helbawy, who runs a care home in North West London, is a leading Muslim academic and a regular contributor to public debates on terrorism.

He has proposed setting up 'treatment centres' to 'cure' those who have been radicalised or brainwashed.

Since the August discovery of the alleged 'liquid bomb' plot to attack transatlantic airliners, there has been fierce controversy over the alleged targeting of Muslims at airport security checkpoints.

On one occasion, a planeful of passengers staged a mutiny before two Muslim travellers were taken off their Manchester-bound plane.

Some police leaders have called for tolerance and claimed there is a danger of creating an offence of 'travelling while Asian'.


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KEYWORDS: flight; kicked; muslim; terrorism
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He has proposed setting up 'treatment centres' to 'cure' those who have been radicalised or brainwashed.

Sure thing, as in: "Here, strap on this suicide belt, my son, and go stand in the midst of those infidels over there. Your treatment will commence momentarily."

1 posted on 10/21/2006 2:36:50 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Egyptian-born Mr Helbawy has previously been criticised for his links to the increasingly radical World Assembly of Muslim Youth - which he co-founded several decades ago.

We already have way too many Muslims in America, and we don't want Mr. Helbawy to come to America and stir them up.

2 posted on 10/21/2006 2:41:24 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE SWORD GET SHOT BY THOSE WHO DON*T!)
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To: LibWhacker

Only ONE good word about this:


GOOD!!!!


D2


3 posted on 10/21/2006 2:42:18 PM PDT by Defender2 (Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
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To: LibWhacker

Old saying, once a fag always a fag.
Once a mooselimb extremist always a mooselimb extremist.
Keep the bastards out of the U.S.
Except of course unless the dems are in power in which case you let them in and offer them help.


4 posted on 10/21/2006 2:58:09 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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Here's the beauty of this. The ACLU can't do a damn thing about it. Heeheeheeeeeheehee


5 posted on 10/21/2006 3:01:09 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: LibWhacker

Actions => Consequences


6 posted on 10/21/2006 3:12:48 PM PDT by magslinger (If at first you don't succeed, squeeze, squeeze again.)
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"He has proposed setting up 'treatment centres' to 'cure' those who have been radicalised or brainwashed."

Will they wean them off of Islam?

When Karl Marx described religion as "the opium of the masses" -- he certainly described Islam.

Semper Fi

7 posted on 10/21/2006 3:22:24 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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Too bad they didn't fling him out onto the tarmac.


8 posted on 10/21/2006 3:38:30 PM PDT by Bon mots
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"A leading British Muslim was kicked off a flight to the USA " while the plane was at angels 30. lol


9 posted on 10/21/2006 3:41:59 PM PDT by verity (Muhammed is a Dirt Bag)
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"'Extremist' British Muslim kicked off U.S. flight"

Sweet!
1 down, many many more to go.


10 posted on 10/21/2006 3:43:37 PM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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Love the headline except for the quotation marks around 'extremist'


11 posted on 10/21/2006 3:49:00 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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I all for flying them half way.


12 posted on 10/21/2006 3:49:51 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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>>>...claimed there is a danger of creating an offense of 'traveling while Asian'.<<<

Welllll, noo! Traveling while Muslim maybe, but Japanese are just fine. So are Christian Indonesians.

13 posted on 10/21/2006 4:08:47 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Hey, march some more - its helping get the wall built!)
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This P.O.S. is a pseudo moderate. Granted he (at least ostensibly) opposes attacks against Western countries, but he supports suicide bombings so long as the victims are JOOOOOOOOS:
MA: Some British and western commentators complain that Muslim scholars, thinkers and ideologues are ambiguous on the question of terrorism, particularly suicide bombings. They say some scholars are quick to condemn the London bombings, but they approve of suicide bombings in Palestine/Israel and Iraq.

KH: Let me ask you a question, if I am a British citizen and the French are threatening to occupy my country, what should I do? Do I not have the right to resist in a manner that compensates for my technological inferiority? Surely, I should defend my country by using all reasonable means. We don't condone the indiscriminate killings in Iraq, but we approve of those who fight against an oppressive regime that has been occupying Palestine for more than 50 years and demolishes people's homes on top of them. We should make a distinction between people like Bin Laden and Zawahiri who are simply fighting a wrong battle and those people who fight for their freedom and dignity, whether in Palestine, Iraq or Chechnya.

MA: But Tony Blair has come out and said that suicide bombings are wrong everywhere, including Palestine/Israel.

KH: Well he is wrong. It is as simple as that! He is not a Mufti. He is a British Statesman.

Source:
http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?issue_id=3427

14 posted on 10/21/2006 4:10:16 PM PDT by Stultis
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Only ONE good word about this: GOOD!!!!

Good? No way. This man should have been allowed on the next flight
.....................................................................to Gitmo!

15 posted on 10/21/2006 4:37:12 PM PDT by ricks_place
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That would have been nice too!!!!:-)

Go to the below thread and once there, go to post #28 and click on the link it contains:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723311/posts

Proof why the DemocRATS cannot be trusted with the Defense of the United States!!!!


16 posted on 10/21/2006 4:40:38 PM PDT by Defender2 (Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
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To: LibWhacker

Stay out of my country you stinking pig-faced POS Muslim.


17 posted on 10/21/2006 4:44:33 PM PDT by blam
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To: fish hawk

You are right. What is the ACLU going to do about this? Sue the Brits??


18 posted on 10/21/2006 4:54:33 PM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: blam

What you said.


19 posted on 10/21/2006 4:57:21 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: LibWhacker

There should be flights that welcome the proponents of jihadism and flights which forbid them. The flights should be well posted, so that the public can have the choice.
Then some flights will be full of jihadists and bleeding-heart liberals, while other flights will be free of them. This will prove to a useless, stupid government what the people think.


20 posted on 10/21/2006 5:58:51 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Lefism: destroy Western Civilization and replace it with a communist paradise)
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