Posted on 11/25/2006 1:30:41 PM PST by XR7
Six Seattle-area Muslims gathered in prayer Friday in front of a US Airways ticket counter at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to protest the removal of six imams from a flight in Minneapolis earlier this week.
The prayer lasted eight minutes without incident.
"We are asserting the right of Muslims to be free of fear, free of apprehension, to take an equal seat at the table," said Jafar Siddiqui, a member of American Muslims of Puget Sound.
Afterward, airport patron Frank Meyers, of San Jose, Calif., accused airport terminal managers of being "politically correct" by allowing the prayer service to block a public elevator.
"We're in a war, sir," he told an airport terminal manager. "We're in a war against terrorism. Do you have any concept of that?"
The imams were removed from the flight to Phoenix on Monday night after three of them said their usual evening prayers in the terminal in Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport before boarding, said Omar Shahin, president of the North American Imams Federation, who was one of the passengers removed.
According to a police report, a US Airways manager said three of the men had one-way tickets and none checked baggage...
A national Muslim group has planned a much larger pray-in for Monday morning at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
The Blue Ribbon Quote of the Day!
Of course; it leads the recipient (leaders) into a state of paralysis, they day I stopped worrying about PC was a truly liberating moment.
....the day....
Sorry. Frank Myers is an idiot.
We are not "in a war against terrorism."
We are in a war against the Muslims.
President Bush, wake up. Please!
ML/NJ
In the 1960s I met a young girl who was apologetic about being German, even though she was born after the war, because she was fearful that people would blame her anyway for what Germans did during WWII.
If American muslims really wanted to distance themselves from Islamofascism, they would conduct themselves with extra sensitivity in mixed environments, like say an AIRPORT. Excuse me for yelling.
That they prefer instead to provoke non-muslim Americans speaks volumes about their outlook and their emotional connection to America. They want us not to tolerate them, but to defer to them.
You are on a roll.
Right. Assimilating vs. Assimilation.
Freep em......Hmmmm.....Howabout BLOW EM UP!!!
er...arrest em, yeah arrest em....
I hate to see this...I travel by air a lot and I'm afraid the first time my travel is interrupted or I am inconvenienced by a group to these goat breeders, I will be in a lot of trouble. I have zero tollerance of this garbage and I will make my feelings known.
How ironic that the Muslims are protesting at Sea-Tac, where America's most mysterious, unsolved hijacking (D.B. Cooper) occurred.
We cannot afford to stay silent while this kind of intimidation is going on all around us.
More on the Six Traveling Imams
Omar Shahin, who has acted as the group's spokesman, appears to have ties to terrorist-supporting groups.
On July 13, 2005, Steven Emerson, Executive Director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, testified before the Senate Banking Committee on investigations into the funding of terrorist groups. His testimony focused, in part, on an Islamic charity called "KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development." Emerson mentioned Omar Shahin as one of KindHearts' links to terror-supporting organizations ...(more)
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015982.php
I wonder why they wanted belt extenders, to make garrotes? Or were they hoping to switch them for some they somehow smuggled aboard that were disguised "belt bombs". Or that they could possibly probe into carrying these extenders onto a plane without suspicion saying they mistakenly kept them after the flight and were returning them? They have a fetsh about belt bombs we all know that and I suspect its possible they have found a way to create an explosive device of different belts each having an inert undetectable chemical but when combined could be dangerous, its a longshot but its a gut feeling.
Maybe we should start prayer meetings in front of mosques, protest marches against muslims and muslim owned businesses like that lunatic that protests military funerals.
America: Love it or leave it!
<< Muslims protest ... at Sea-Tac Airport (and are) planning a major protest in Washington DC on Monday)
Islam is incompatible with Judeo-Christian/Western/Human Civilization and we will either cotton on to that fact or will die from our ignorance of it.
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