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Ejected imam linked to Hamas, bin Laden
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Posted on 11/21/2006 4:29:09 PM PST by xcamel

Spokesman for 6 Muslim clerics barred from US Airways flight

One of six Muslim imams pulled from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis last night by federal authorities is affiliated with a Hamas-linked organization and acknowledged a connection to Osama bin Laden in the 1990s.

Omar Shahin, who served as a spokesman for the clerics, is a representative of the Kind Hearts Organization, which had its assets frozen by the U.S. Treasury pending an investigation, notes Islam scholar Robert Spencer on his weblog JihadWatch

Treasury spokesman Stuart Levey in February said KindHearts "is the progeny of Holy Land Foundation and Global Relief Foundation, which attempted to mask their support for terrorism behind the façade of charitable giving."

The imams had attended a conference in Minneapolis of the North American Imams Federation, said Shahin, who is president of the group.

"They took us off the plane, humiliated us in a very disrespectful way," Shahin said after the incident last night.

Today, Shahin called for Muslims and non-Muslims to boycott US Airways unless the company changes its policy.

"They know what they have to do, they have to be fair and just with everybody," he said.

The Washington, D.C., based lobby group Council on American-Islamic Relations planned to file a complaint, said CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper.

"Because, unfortunately, this is a growing problem of singling out Muslims or people perceived to be Muslims at airports, and it's one that we've been addressing for some time," Hooper said.

CAIR, however, has its own ties to Hamas, having been identified by two former FBI counter-terrorism chiefs as a spinoff of a front group for the Palestinian terrorist organization.

A Sept. 28, 2001, story in the Arizona Republic that said Arizona appears to have been the home of an al-Qaida sleeper cell, named Shahin as one of three part-time Arizona residents who "fits the pattern" of the terrorist group.

Shahin, identifed as being with the Tucson Islamic Center, said members of his mosque may have helped bin Laden in the early 1990s when the al-Qaida leader was fighting against the Russians.

The CIA at that time, Shahin said, called bin Laden a "freedom fighter."

"Then they tell us he is involved in terrorist acts, and they stopped supporting him, and we stopped," he said.

In the story, Shahin expressed doubt that Muslims were responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks and said he "didn't trust much of what the FBI has divulged - including the hijackers' identities."

As for Al-Qaida nests in America, Shahin said, "All of these, they make it up."

Witnesses to the imam's explusion last night said some of them made anti-American comments about the war in Iraq before boarding the flight, according to Minneapolis airport spokesman Patrick Hogan.

Also, some of the men asked for seat belt extensions even though a flight attendant thought they didn't need them.

"There were a number of things that gave the flight crew pause," Hogan said.

Shahin claimed three members of the group prayed in the terminal before the six boarded the plane. Last night, however, he said they had prayed on the plane.

The imams boarded the plane individually, Shahin said, except for a blind member who needed assistance. They didn't sit together and "did nothing," he contended.


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Good call, folks.
1 posted on 11/21/2006 4:29:10 PM PST by xcamel
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There you have it...nice job other passengers. Expose these inmates errr...Inmans or whatever they call themselves for who they really are!


2 posted on 11/21/2006 4:32:28 PM PST by oust the louse
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Yes it was a good call. Of course, we've known about CAIR's ties to Hamas for a long time and they're still here.


3 posted on 11/21/2006 4:33:11 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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Doh!!!

4 posted on 11/21/2006 4:33:18 PM PST by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
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"Shahin called for Muslims and non-Muslims to boycott US Airways unless the company changes its policy"

If I owned an airline and didn't have a policy that would make them want to boycott it, I would hurry up and make such a policy.


5 posted on 11/21/2006 4:33:33 PM PST by fatrat
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Today, Shahin called for Muslims and non-Muslims to boycott US Airways unless the company changes its policy.

I'd prefer the airline that throws imams off the plane personally.
6 posted on 11/21/2006 4:34:20 PM PST by kinoxi
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CAIR has their fax machine on speed-dial so they can file complaints more rapidly.


7 posted on 11/21/2006 4:34:27 PM PST by TomGuy
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"is affiliated with a Hamas-linked organization"

You mean CAIR?


8 posted on 11/21/2006 4:36:35 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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Nothing better to sooth your soul before a flight like a group of Imams getting in the aisle of the airplane and begin praying! They are lucky the passengers didn't hit them over the head with a metal fire extinguisher.
9 posted on 11/21/2006 4:38:28 PM PST by avacado
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"Today, Shahin called for Muslims ... to boycott US Airways"

Well, that would go a long way towards solving the problem.
10 posted on 11/21/2006 4:38:36 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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Are any of the 6 still alive?


11 posted on 11/21/2006 4:39:58 PM PST by jocko12
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"The imams boarded the plane individually, Shahin said, except for a blind member who needed assistance. They didn't sit together and "did nothing," he contended."


I think you get to be an Imam automatically if you are blind.


12 posted on 11/21/2006 4:40:00 PM PST by soupcon
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I always thought US airlines should switch from peanuts and other crunchies to pork rinds.


13 posted on 11/21/2006 4:41:14 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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This is an outrage! Cut off his head! It is the only way honor can be restored!


14 posted on 11/21/2006 4:42:03 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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Gomer Pyle sez... "Well surprise, surprise, surprise!!!"


15 posted on 11/21/2006 4:42:54 PM PST by nhoward14
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I always thought US airlines should switch from peanuts and other crunchies to pork rinds.

That would be cruel. Imagine a packet with 3 little pork rinds. Heck, I eat a whole 16 oz bag of them in one sitting.
16 posted on 11/21/2006 4:45:35 PM PST by TomGuy
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Great Idea!!!!!LOL


17 posted on 11/21/2006 4:46:33 PM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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some of the men asked for seat belt extensions even though a flight attendant thought they didn't need them. "There were a number of things that gave the flight crew pause," Hogan said.

Hmmmm.

18 posted on 11/21/2006 4:48:03 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: xcamel

I have been in limbo since 11/07/06. Has this story made the MSM?


19 posted on 11/21/2006 4:48:38 PM PST by rocksblues (Do unto others as they do unto you!)
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one airline is definately safer from here on out. Now any Mooslim found on a US Air flight is suspect for not adhearing to the boycot.


20 posted on 11/21/2006 4:48:59 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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