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6 imams removed from flight at Twin Cities airport, questioned
KVOA News 4 Tuscon, AZ ^ | 11-21-2006 | AP reporter Gregg Aamot

Posted on 11/20/2006 11:02:16 PM PST by MrCFdovnh

MINNEAPOLIS -- Six Muslim imams on Monday were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said.

The six were among passengers who boarded Flight 300, bound for Phoenix, around 6:30 p.m., airport spokesman Pat Hogan said.

A passenger initially raised concerns about the group through a note passed to a flight attendant, according to Andrea Rader, a spokeswoman for US Airways. She said police were called after the captain and airport security workers asked the men to leave the plane and the men refused.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 6himoms; flight300; flight3000; flt300; imams; islam; islamicscholars; mn; mooselimbs; muslim; naif; phoenix; phoenixcell; pigsbeuponthem; sixpack; terrorists; trop; twincities; usair; usairways; wot
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To: MrCFdovnh

You sure cannot blame anyone for not wanting to fly with them. The people on 9-11 were fooled first and no one wants to be the twice fooled. I am sure they will have the ACLU all over it though.


41 posted on 11/21/2006 3:39:34 AM PST by dforest (Don't get fooled, the bigger struggle is still out there, and growing)
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To: PghBaldy

NAIF...National Association of Islamic Fundamentalists?


42 posted on 11/21/2006 3:42:17 AM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.com/)
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To: nralife
"Camels and jackasses ought be the only method of travel for anyone that still maintains a 7th century mindset." ...... LOL... I think I'm going to steal that.

Me too.

43 posted on 11/21/2006 3:45:16 AM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: E Rocc
If there was a demonstrable problem with these particular individuals, they should have not been allowed on the plane to begin with. Apparently, there was not.

Apparently in your world, devious people cannot act normal until the reach a goal before revealing their true colors. The objective here may not have been jihad via explosives but jihad via ACLU.
44 posted on 11/21/2006 3:49:44 AM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.com/)
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To: vbmoneyspender
so many Americans know so little about Islam

Like I've said elsewhere on this forum, I don't know much about the particulars of Pentecostals, either, but I don't worry about them killing me at random.

45 posted on 11/21/2006 3:52:21 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Why isn't there an "NRA" for the rest of my rights?)
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To: MrCFdovnh

Kids can't pray in school. My legislators can't pray in session. Why should imams pray on planes?


46 posted on 11/21/2006 3:57:11 AM PST by Samwise (All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.)
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To: Old_Mil
jihad via ACLU

bingo

47 posted on 11/21/2006 3:58:09 AM PST by Samwise (All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.)
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To: MrCFdovnh

You don't have to worry about the imams. Ever notice they never strap bombs on for a sicide attack? Apparently, they aren't worried about not getting their 72 virgins.


48 posted on 11/21/2006 4:06:16 AM PST by George W. Bush
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To: MrCFdovnh
Three of them stood and said their normal evening prayers together on the plane, as 1.7 billion Muslims around the world do every day...

1.7 billion Muslims but apparently not the OTHER three on the plane. It seems like the three that stood up wanted to grandstand their religion and they got the attention they desired.

49 posted on 11/21/2006 4:19:26 AM PST by rhombus
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To: MrCFdovnh
Islam is a race?




50 posted on 11/21/2006 4:20:00 AM PST by ASA Vet (The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
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To: George W. Bush
You don't have to worry about the imams. Ever notice they never strap bombs on for a sicide attack? Apparently, they aren't worried about not getting their 72 virgins.

Maybe they spend their time "counseling" the grief stricken mothers, widows, sisters... ??

51 posted on 11/21/2006 4:26:52 AM PST by MortMan (I was going to be indecisive, but I changed my mind.)
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To: MortMan
Lileks adds more in his Bleat today.
52 posted on 11/21/2006 4:33:30 AM PST by PacesPaines
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To: rhombus

The woman who overheard them and reported them was an Arabic speaker and said they were not talking about or saying prayers but were saying anti-American things. Strangely, that has dropped out of the news. Check some of the earlier threads.


53 posted on 11/21/2006 4:33:40 AM PST by livius
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To: livius
The woman who overheard them and reported them was an Arabic speaker and said they were not talking about or saying prayers but were saying anti-American things. Strangely, that has dropped out of the news. Check some of the earlier threads.

Interesting, though not surprising.

54 posted on 11/21/2006 4:34:47 AM PST by rhombus
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To: PghBaldy

Since prayer times are pretty rigid, they can pray standing up if there is no place to throw a rug. It's quite normal for them. I wish it was mandatory for them to go to Mecca to pray....and stay there.


55 posted on 11/21/2006 4:39:44 AM PST by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: livius

Just seeing the guys stand up at once would have freaked anyone.


56 posted on 11/21/2006 4:39:49 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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To: rhombus

I find it very interesting that, 5 years after 9/11, this is the very, very first time that Muslims have had to do this on an airplane at exactly the time called for prayer. What a coincidence!


57 posted on 11/21/2006 4:41:07 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("No stronger retrograde force exists in the world" - Winston Churchill on Islam)
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To: rhombus
were saying anti-American things

One can go to any Union or DNC meeting and hear anti-American speech too.

58 posted on 11/21/2006 4:42:00 AM PST by ASA Vet (The WOT should have been over on 9/12/01.)
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To: MrCFdovnh

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


59 posted on 11/21/2006 4:46:41 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Send Lawyers, Guns And Money (Not Necessarily In That Order))
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To: MrCFdovnh
Shahin expressed frustration that _ despite extensive efforts by him and other Muslim leaders since even before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks _ so many Americans know so little about Islam.

We know LOTS about Islam. You just don't like what we know...

60 posted on 11/21/2006 4:47:55 AM PST by an amused spectator (The Credit Party - the Dine-And-Dash Democrats line up the sheep for shearing again)
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