Posted on 11/22/2006 9:29:14 AM PST by SeafoodGumbo
Omar Shahin is one of the imams removed from a flight in Minneapolis. He was involved with Kind Hearts, which has been closed down for its connections to Hamas. He also acknowledged a connection to Osama bin Laden in the 1990s in a September 28, 2001 story in the Arizona Republic (thanks to Austin): "Arizona Was Home to bin Laden 'Sleeper Cell,'" by Dennis Wagner and Tom Zoellner. From that story:
Arizona appears to have been the home of a "sleeper cell" of Osama bin Laden's worldwide terrorist organization, with a select group of operatives living quietly in bland apartment complexes and obtaining flight training in preparation for the Sept. 11 attacks.
The organization's known history in the state goes back nine years and scholars say the activities of at least three part-time Arizona residents fits the pattern of the al-Qaeda terrorist group.
"We can only speculate at this point, but I'm convinced the FBI is operating under the assumption that Arizona was host to an al-Qaeda cell," said Jack Williams, a professor of law at Georgia State University who has studied the group's financing methods.
[...]
Omar Shahin of the Tucson Islamic Center said members of the Tucson mosque may have helped bin Laden in the early 1990s, when he was fighting against the Russians. But that was during the Cold War when U.S. intelligence agencies were encouraging support for bin Laden.
"They (the CIA) called him a 'freedom fighter,'" Sahin said. "Then they tell us he is involved in terrorist acts, and they stopped supporting him, and we stopped."
Shahin and Saadeddin expressed doubt that Muslims were responsible for the Sept. 11 attack. They also said they don't trust much of what the FBI has divulged - including the hijackers' identities.
[...]
Shahin of the Tucson Islamic Center said more than 1,200 Muslims died in the World Trade Center catastrophe, and no genuine member of Islam would do such a thing. Nor, he added, would Muslims have gone to strip joints prior to the attack, as several of the terrorists in Florida reportedly did. As for Al-Qaeda nests in America, Shahin said, "All of these, they make it up."
Nasrallah said that all muslims, including children, killed by his random missile strikes on locations in Lebanon and Israel were in fact martyrs to Islam. I thought Nasrallah was a genuine member of Islam. Who to believe?
That's insane. It's not possible that 1/3 of the WTC victims were Muslim.
Of course no reporter is going to question this.
Since the only true investigative journalists left post to Free Republic, the only research taking place is 'right here'
That's a damned lie. There's no way 1200 muslims died in the WTC and to say so is to denigrate the memory of the good people who DID die that day.
Thanks for the US Airways customer feedback link, Dark Skies. I wrote a letter of support and thanked US Airways for choosing common sense over (suicidal) political correctness. I told'em I plan to put my money where my mouth is and choose their airline for my future air travel.
Did as you said and sent this to US Airways:
I just wanted to send a note of thanks to US Airways for doing the right thing in ejecting six Muslim Imams from a Minneapolis flight. Please extend a thank you to all personnel involved from me and many other US Airways customers who are very concerned with whether airlines will put political correctness ahead of safety. What, if anything at all, would have happened had they been allowed to stay will probably never be known. Noted scholar of Islam, Robert Spencer has already exposed the terror connections of one of the men on his website jihadwatch.org. Please do not allow the protest of groups like CAIR, which not only refuses to condemn terrorism but has many ties to questionable organizations, to have any bearing on current and future action. Again, thank you.
In Arabic, Palestine is pronounced Filistine. That's for those who wonder if the Philistines are now the Palestinians. They might or might not be but probably some are.
Whenever a Muslims lips are moving, you can bet he's lying. It's part of Jihad, "War is deceit".
Bukhari:V4B52N268Allahs Apostle said, War is deceit.
Bukhari:V6B60N662 Allahs Apostle said, Some eloquent speech is as effective as magic.
Make no mistake, Muslims are damn good liars.
I've read a couple of places one of them requested a seatbelt extension even though he didn't seem to need one. One of those might make a handy garrote.
" Is CAIR on the terrorists side?"
WTF..............what do you think CAIR is?
Great work. Like you I am going to use US Air whenever possible due to their effort re: these imams.
Great letter. Thx for your good work!
bump for publicity
They were all flying with this guy?
They are Imans.
Terror connections? Imams create terrorists!
Better safe than sorry.
Might be that they LET them board to look at the links between each other.
"Could be this group was pulling this stunt to try to soften up our defences,
or to see what they could get away with."
Both could, and likely, are true.
I lived in Los Angeles 1995-2005. In the summber of the London
bus/train bombings, even Steve Lopez (liberal columnist with the LA Times)
learned how much of this hoaxing/probing goes on around LA by suspicious
acting guys who leave boxes on buses and trains/subways in LA.
It appears they are constantly testing defenses/detection and hoping
for a two-fer to cry "discrimination" if detained.
"Is CAIR on the terrorists side?"
Yes. Despite all their protestations of non-violence.
They took most of 3-4 days to craft their "denunciation" of the Beslan massacre.
(It was a joy to hear Laura Ingraham rip CAIR's spokes-hole a new one
over that)
"Has CAIR denounced terrorism from within their flock?"
Yeah. But when their spokes-people meet with REAL questioning by
a reporter/commentator, after a few questions it's revealed that what
ever violence Muslims do..."It's really been provoked by Jews and Americans"
(my paraphrase of their apologia).
Here's a nice profile on this group. Two of their head officers have
(surely accidentally) admitted that their aim is to see Shari'a be
the law of the land in the USA.
One of them was Ibrahim Hooper, a Muslim convert from St. Louis.
I heard him make this statement of The Michael Medved Show a couple of years ago.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6176
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