FOX ALERT: Passengers Taken Off Plane at MSP (Minnesota - Flying Imams, 2006)

FOX 9 NEWS ^ | 11/20/06 | FOX 9 NEWS

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Six men were removed from an airplane at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Monday evening.

Sources say the men, of Middle Eastern ethnicity, behaved in a manner that caused the crew to be concerned.

The men were taken off the plane after it returned to the gate and are being questioned by authorities.

The remaining passengers were also taken off the flight, U.S. Airways flight 300, bound for Phoenix.

Those passengers are being re-screened for boarding.

There were 170 passengers on board the plane, which is a Boeing 757.

Stay with FOX 9 News and MyFOX9.com for continuing updates on this breaking story.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Isn’t this sort of a moot point, since the slime-mams basically dropped their complaints against the John Does yesterday in Minneapolis??

Is there really a need for this Amicus Brief?

[Cindy]

OPINION: I’m not a lawyer, but considering the content of the original lawsuit; I think it is a very good thing to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.

[DesScorp]

Here comes the CAIR “Islamaphobia” lawsuit...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yeah, and they can bring all they want to the Twin Cities. We’ve had it up to here and we’re ready for a fight.

Nevermind the morons in district 5 that elected Keith Ellison.

We, as a state are fed up with this crap and will not take it anymore.

[Cindy]

OFF TOPIC...

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1118913281

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QUOTE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875105/posts?page=291#291

Passenger At MIA Says Two Men Talked Of Hijacking (Florida)
August 4, 2007
MIAMI — Two men were removed from a plane at Miami International Airport Friday night when a passenger alerted authorities and said she overheard them saying they had planned to hijack the plane.

The incident occurred around 10 p.m. on board American Airlines flight 936 from MIA to Hartford, Conn. The flight never left the gate. The two men were removed and questioned. K-9 units searched the plane and the flight was given an all-clear to take off. There were no arrests reported Saturday in the investigation.

http://www.nbc6.net/news/13819595/detail.html

Laser Beams Aimed Into Cockpits Near Fla. Airport
August 3, 2007

The FBI and Homeland Security agents are investigating several incidents of laser beams being shined into cockpits of landing planes in Central Florida.

Investigators said pilots have reported a thin beam of light being targeted into the cockpits of their planes near the Daytona Beach Airport. One of the planes was attempting to land at the airport when it was targeted.

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http://www.local6.com/news/13817679/detail.html

291 posted on 08/04/2007 3:31:18 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)

[Cindy]

UPDATE:

Thanks to ButThreeLeftsDo for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882805/posts

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http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070816/NATION/108160068/1002

“In imams’ suit, status of ‘John Does’ in dispute”
By Audrey Hudson
August 16, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A legal squabble in a lawsuit brought by Muslim imam passengers is escalating among lawyers over the question of who is being sued over their removal from a flight last year.

“John Doe” passengers are named as parties in the litigation for reporting suspicious behavior of the six men, which led to their removal from the flight. Employees of U.S. Airways and a Minneapolis airport are also targets of the lawsuit now proceeding through a federal court.

One of the attorneys representing the six Muslim men says they do not intend to pursue the passengers in litigation, but the Becket Fund, which is aiding the defendants in the case, says “John Doe” passengers remain listed as a party to the lawsuit and are still targets of the litigation.”

[Cindy]

UDPATE:

Thanks to ButThreeLeftsDo for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884540/posts

“Imams Looking For Case To Go Forward In Court (”Flyin’ Imams”!!)”
KSTP.com ^ | 8/21/07 | KSTP.com

Posted on 08/21/2007 5:03:59 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

[Cindy]

UPDATE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884962/posts

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070822/NATION/108220091/1001

“Imams drop ‘John Doe’ suit”
By Audrey Hudson
August 22, 2007

[Cindy]

More Details UPDATE:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070823/NATION/108230073/1001

Page 1 of 2 next >> |

“Imams drop lawsuit against ‘Doe’ passengers”
By Audrey Hudson
August 23, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A federal court yesterday accepted a request by a group of Muslim imams to drop all claims in a federal lawsuit against unspecified “John Doe” passengers for reporting the men’s suspicious behavior, which led to their removal from a US Airways flight last year.

The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota was amended to “hereby dismiss possible defendants ‘John Does’ as set forth in ... the first amended complaint as parties from this action,” said the notice of dismissal. The lawsuit still targets US Airways and Minneapolis airport workers.”

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

One year later..........

[Cindy]

Thanks to ButThreeLeftsDo for this update:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928763/posts

“Judge rejects defense arguments to dismiss imams’ lawsuit (”Flyin’ Imams”!)”
KARE11.com ^ | 11/21/07 | KARE11.com/AP
Posted on 11/21/2007 4:20:13 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929169/posts

“Clinton Judge Keeps Flying Imams Aloft”
IBD ^ | September 21, 2007
Posted on 11/21/2007 6:38:20 PM PST by Kaslin

EDITORIAL SNIPPET: “Homeland Security: A federal judge had a chance to add a layer of protection for the American people. But she missed it, and in the process might have become the useful idiot of a terrorist setup.”

[Cindy]

Thanks to Velveeta for the ping to the following post.

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1933472/posts?page=353#353

M. Zuhdi Jasser, a former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, is chairman of the board of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (www.aifdemocracy.org).

Exposing the “Flying Imams”
by M. Zuhdi Jasser
Middle East Quarterly
Winter 2008

[snip...but you’ll want to read it all...]

My Experience with the Phoenix Imams

I have known three of the plaintiffs in the U.S. Airways suit for almost a decade. Soon after settling in Arizona in 1999, I became involved in the local Muslim community. Before moving to Scottsdale, I usually attended Friday congregational prayer services at the Islamic Community Center of Tempe, Arizona. Often, Ahmed Shqeirat, now the primary plaintiff, delivered sermons at the mosque where he has long been imam. I was struck by the political nature of his sermons. He repeatedly criticized both U.S. domestic and foreign policy and often exaggerated Muslim victimization. He advocated political unification of Muslims internationally and blamed the United States, Israel, and the West for perceived slights. He called for the political empowerment of Muslims in American society.

After hearing several sermons, I spoke and wrote to him to express my dismay at his emphasis of political over spiritual topics. He responded that “secularism is Godlessness” and asserted a right to “speak about political injustice.” The concept of purely spiritual Islam and creation of an intellectual environment welcoming to all Muslims regardless of political persuasion was anathema to him.

To give one example of his abuse of pulpit, during a Friday sermon in April 2004, he displayed an image, which CAIR had distributed, of an American soldier in Iraq with two young Iraqi boys. In the photo, the soldier held a sign saying, “Lcpl Boudreaux killed my dad, then he knocked up my sister.”[15] Shqeirat neither made any attempt to verify the image’s authenticity nor to determine, if real, whether it was representative. Nor, when he was asked, could he explain how such a display related to Islamic theology or spirituality. The goal of using faith identity to divide society highlights the incompatibility of Islamism with traditions of American culture and society.

I had similar concerns regarding the sermons of Marwan Saadeddin, another plaintiff, whose sermons I heard in the Phoenix Valley. Following the U.S. Air 300 incident, Saadeddin spun the incident to the media[16] and transformed it into a parable of victimization during a Friday sermon at a Phoenix Valley mosque. During the sermon, I heard him say, “I’d rather be dead than removed from an airplane in handcuffs.” Such is the political and fanatical ranting of one of Arizona’s leading imams. As is common among Islamist preachers, he substituted politics for theology and spirituality.

I also know Omar Shahin, another imam plaintiff. He resides in the Phoenix area and has been the head of the Valley Imam Council of Phoenix, the former imam of the Islamic Center of Tucson, a teacher with the Arizona Cultural Academy, and the imam of the Islamic Center of the East Valley. His hyperbole is typical of the Phoenix-area Islamists. He called the day of his eviction from the U.S. Air flight “the worst day of [his] life,”[17] a statement far more forceful than any he issued after the 9-11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, the March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid, the July 7, 2005 London bus and Underground bombings, or in response to any Al-Qaeda video seeking to justify the murder of Americans and noncombatants in the name of religion. Indeed, he blamed the 9-11 attacks not on Muslim terrorists but on the CIA and FBI.[18]

There should also be concern regarding the involvement of some of the imams with Islamic charities shuttered because of their terror financing. Shahin was the Arizona representative of Kindhearts and the Holy Land Foundation, both of which the U.S. Treasury Department shut down because of their involvement with Hamas.[19] Saadeddin dismissed Hamas connections as any reason for concern, recently stating that, “Hamas has nothing to do with [the] United States. Talk about Al-Qaeda only, because this is where they hit America ... [If] America consider[s] it—the foreign policy of America consider[s] Hamas—as a terrorist. That’s their business.”[20]

[snip]
http://www.meforum.org/article/1809

353 posted on 12/07/2007 8:54:38 PM PST by Velveeta (Duncan Hunter, 08’ !!! The real conservative.)

[Cindy]

ADDING this thread link to post no. 353.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1938130/posts

[Cindy]

UPDATE:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080104/NATION/928787937/1001

“US Airways, airport seek trial in imams’ suit”
By Audrey Hudson
January 4, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “US Airways and Minneapolis airport officials are demanding a jury trial in a civil rights lawsuit filed by a group of Muslim imams who were removed from a flight for suspicious behavior.

The airline and Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), which oversees Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, are also claiming immunity for their employees named in the suit, citing a “John Doe” law passed by Congress last year that, among other things, protects people acting in an official capacity to prevent terrorist attacks.

“We believe the police officers acted appropriately and that it is important that airports across the nation be able to take action when there is a reasonable belief that travelers could be threatened,” said Patrick Hogan, MAC spokesman.”

[Cindy]

Thanks to ButThreeLeftsDo for this update:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045017/posts

“A short note started chain that ended in imams kicked off flight (Flyin’ Imams!!)”
PioneerPress ^ | 7/12/08 | David Hanners
Posted on July 13, 2008 8:16:17 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

[Cindy]

Thanks to ButThreeLeftsDo for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045673/posts

“Imams ask magistrate for 10 years of bias complaints against US Airways (”Flyin’ Imams!!)”
PioneerPress ^ | 7/14/08 | David Hanners
Posted on July 15, 2008 4:34:28 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

[Cindy]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022947.php
(PIONEER PRESS)

October 3, 2008
“Flying Imams try to add FBI agent as defendant”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1741897/posts

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UPDATE - QUOTE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1741897/posts?page=358#358

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022947.php
(PIONEER PRESS)

October 3, 2008
“Flying Imams try to add FBI agent as defendant”

358 posted on October 3, 2008 2:03:16 PM PDT by Cindy

[Palladin]

The Flying Imams should go take a Flying Leap!