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'.
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."
We already have way too many Muslims in America, and we don't want Mr. Helbawy to come to America and stir them up.
Only ONE good word about this:
GOOD!!!!
D2
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.
Here's the beauty of this. The ACLU can't do a damn thing about it. Heeheeheeeeeheehee
Actions => Consequences
Will they wean them off of Islam?
When Karl Marx described religion as "the opium of the masses" -- he certainly described Islam.
Semper Fi
Too bad they didn't fling him out onto the tarmac.
"A leading British Muslim was kicked off a flight to the USA " while the plane was at angels 30. lol
"'Extremist' British Muslim kicked off U.S. flight"
Sweet!
1 down, many many more to go.
Love the headline except for the quotation marks around 'extremist'
I all for flying them half way.
Welllll, noo! Traveling while Muslim maybe, but Japanese are just fine. So are Christian Indonesians.
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
Good? No way. This man should have been allowed on the next flight
.....................................................................to Gitmo!
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!!!!
Stay out of my country you stinking pig-faced POS Muslim.
You are right. What is the ACLU going to do about this? Sue the Brits??
What you said.
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.
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