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U.S. Muslims outraged after imams kicked off plane ["They were treated like terrorists....]
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Posted on 11/21/2006 10:04:47 AM PST by Sub-Driver

U.S. Muslims outraged after imams kicked off plane

By Michael Conlon 27 minutes ago

Muslim leaders expressed outrage on Tuesday after six imams were removed from a commercial airline flight in Minnesota for what they said was nothing more than trying to say evening prayers.

"They were treated like terrorists ... humiliated," said Abu Hannoud, civil rights director for the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who said the men were taken off the US Airways flight in handcuffs.

He said the men were still trying to find a flight back to Phoenix where most are affiliated with a major mosque after the carrier refused them passage following the incident on Monday evening.

"We are concerned that crew members, passengers and security personnel may have succumbed to fear and prejudice based on stereotyping of Muslims and Islam," added Nihad Awad, executive director of the council, in a statement from the group's Washington headquarters.

"We call on relevant authorities to investigate whether proper procedures were followed by security personnel and members of the US Airways flight crew," he said.

The group said the men told it they were accused of "suspicious activity," which they believed was only their attempt to pray.

Hannoud said in an interview that the men had been attending a three-day meeting of the North American Imams Federation in the Minneapolis area "discussing how to build bridges" between Muslims and American society, and that the FBI and local police had been informed in advance about the meeting.

"They were rewarded by being treated like terrorists," he said. "Their humiliation is really a humiliation for the entire Muslim community," he added, and further proof that Islam phobia is a growing problem in the United States.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; cair; danielpearl; headchoppers; himoms; holyshiite; imams; islam; moongod; muslims; rop; trop; wtc
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To: Sub-Driver

Tell me the plane had landed first !


121 posted on 11/21/2006 12:11:18 PM PST by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: Ole Okie

--Can beautiful, busty, blue-eyed, blond-haired, white, 5'2" women see over the dashboards of 747's?--

Only if they use the Patented "Mahmoud Ahmamadjihadi Stool". Only 9.95 Dinars, from Rahmco.


123 posted on 11/21/2006 12:13:59 PM PST by rfp1234 (I've had it up to my keyster with these leaks!!! - - - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Sub-Driver
they were asked to leave the plane and refused.

"Snakes on a Plane" (?)

124 posted on 11/21/2006 12:15:53 PM PST by Kieri (A Grafted Branch (Rom. 11))
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To: rfp1234

--Only 9.95 Dinars, from Rahmco--

(Makers of the world-famous Khalil Pocket Rocket Propelled Grenade).


125 posted on 11/21/2006 12:16:11 PM PST by rfp1234 (I've had it up to my keyster with these leaks!!! - - - Ronald Reagan)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

local police report said they were praying in the terminal & on the plane.
they also refused to sit where they were supposed to sit.
they also ignored instructions and commands from the flight crew.

regardless of religious preference, you don't get to be an assclown on a plane.


126 posted on 11/21/2006 12:19:30 PM PST by Rakkasan1 ((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
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To: Sub-Driver
Americans OUTRAGED for the Muslims flying planes into the Twin Towers!!!
128 posted on 11/21/2006 12:33:35 PM PST by gulfcoast6
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To: Sub-Driver

Dear CAIR:

If the thousands of people who have blown up buildings, airplanes, cars, people, basically anything where people are present, didn't ALL share one basic characteristic, then you would have room to complain. But, you see, THEY WERE ALL MUSLIMS.

MUSLIMS ARE BLOWING UP THINGS LEFT AND RIGHT.

LITTLE IRISH-AMERICAN WOMEN AREN'T.
AMERICAN INDIANS AREN'T.
DUTCH-AMISH AREN'T.
White Anglo Saxon Protestants Aren't.

MUSLIMS ARE. SUSPECT THE MUSLIMS.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Bryan24
Proud American.


129 posted on 11/21/2006 12:40:52 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right....)
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To: Bryan24
We had a very visual display on the nature of islam on 9/11. That image will live forever in the hearts and minds of all true Americans. Yes, I do mean that. If you do not believe that islam is guilty of the 9/11 murders then your body needs to be exported before it reaches room temperature.
130 posted on 11/21/2006 12:47:10 PM PST by oldenuff2no
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To: pandoraou812
If they want to fly in groups and act strangely then they need to understand we will be all over them like white on rice.

Agreed. It is well worth the inconvenience. A follow up would be a special list (probably is one) and the next time they try to fly- well, keep 'em hanging around.

Up here in the Great Lakes, three Arabic chaps from Dearborn,Michigan were taking photographs. This was of the great wonders of engineering- the Mackinac Straights Bridge. Absolutely everyone takes pictures of it. These guys were taking integral parts of it. Like the metal grid structure.

No charges...... but I think the police kind of let 'em know that nobody is stupid to buy their "tourist" explanations.

They caused a bit of a flap though. This was just before the labour day walk on the bridge. Thousands walking the structure. Nasty minded to say the least. I could use stronger language. LOL

131 posted on 11/21/2006 1:01:02 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: scott7278

My, oh my. Why is it that there's never any need to give advance warning of Jewish, Catholic, or Protestant clerical meetings?? Could it have to do with Mudslime clerics regularly being terrorist leaders?


132 posted on 11/21/2006 1:01:29 PM PST by libstripper (!!)
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To: Ouderkirk

They were shrieking Allah - they expect people not to react after 9/11?


133 posted on 11/21/2006 1:04:34 PM PST by juliej
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To: Sub-Driver

"based on stereotyping of Muslims and Islam"


Stereotypes tend to have a grain of truth. Never mind the high risk of ignoring it here.


134 posted on 11/21/2006 1:06:20 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Sub-Driver

"Islam phobia is a growing problem in the United States."


Islam is a growing problem in the United States.


135 posted on 11/21/2006 1:07:37 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Of course, that big terrorist lover, Ibrahim Hooper, was in the group. He has admitted that he wants to IMPOSE SHARI on the United States. They should have been asked to leave the airplane while it was over the Atlantic.


136 posted on 11/21/2006 1:09:05 PM PST by juliej
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To: Sub-Driver
But Muslims are ok with throwing a Brtitish soldier out of a department store on Remembrance Day because his dress uniform might offend the patrons or somebody might mistake him for the usher (I kid you not, see link). It is probably just coincidence that the store is Harrods and a Muslim owns it.
137 posted on 11/21/2006 1:16:12 PM PST by atomic conspiracy (Brought to you by Rovian Department 666: Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Dirty tricks.)
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To: Lee Heggy123

"Timothy McVeigh and the 'Unibomber' excepted all terrorists have been Muslims."


Well, outside a bunch of Irish !$#$!%$@&@#$.


138 posted on 11/21/2006 1:17:04 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: From many - one.

"An Arabc speaker overheard an anti-American conversation and reported it."


Are you serious?

If true, that blows CAIR's whining to bits (no pun here).


139 posted on 11/21/2006 1:21:47 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: juliej

These imam's are despicable people. They did this on purpose, to incite the exact response that they recieved and then take the opportunity to point out to us how we are islamophobic.

For the record, I do not fear islam, I despise it. I despise all that it stands for. I despise it's practitioners and is goals. I despise it's false prophet, and the culture of death that he and his follwers have spawned.


140 posted on 11/21/2006 1:22:54 PM PST by Ouderkirk (America won't win another war until the 1960s flower children are pushing up petunias.)
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