Posted on 11/29/2006 9:42:37 PM PST by kellynla
The six imams removed from a US Airways flight last week have apparently adopted my suggestion that if they really want to protest the airline, instead of boycotting US Airways, they should start flying it frequently.
The spokesman for the imams -- or as I believe it's phrased in their culture, "designated liar" -- Omar Shahin, staged a protest at Reagan Washington National Airport on Monday, after which, according to the Associated Press, "he and other religious leaders boarded a US Airways flight to demonstrate their determination to continue praying and flying."
The original six imams removed from the flight last week first attracted attention when they said prayers to Allah on traditional Muslim prayer rugs in the boarding area. After boarding, they changed seats, spreading themselves throughout the plane. They were also overheard spouting anti-American rhetoric. Witnesses said the six men appeared to be either Islamic fanatics or U.S. Army chaplains on leave from Guantanamo.
Following the lead of FEMA in keeping Americans safe, the Homeland Security Department's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is investigating the removal of the imams from the US Airways flight. (Talk about coincidences -- I'm currently investigating the removal of the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from the Department of Homeland Security!)
Imam spokesman Shahin is a great example of why airport security ought to be profiling Arabs. Shahin's predecessor at the Islamic Center in Tucson was Osama bin Laden's financier and head of logistics -- until he was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2002.
Instead of aggressively distinguishing himself from his terrorist predecessor, judging by news reports, Shahin spent the five years after 9/11 denying that Muslims were behind the attacks and complaining of phony anti-Islamic "hate crimes" -- as opposed to the pro-Islamic hate crimes he presumably endorses.
In 2003, for example, Shahin alleged that a woman in Arizona had thrown shoes at children at the mosque.
This is the most transparent hoax I've heard since, "If I did it, here's how I would have done it." This is like the joke about a speaker at an American communist rally opening with: "Workers and peasants of Brooklyn!" Shahin has so little insight into this country, he can't even invent a believable hate crime.
It's Arabs who have a thing about shoes being a sign of disrespect, not Americans. When Iraqis toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein, the crowd immediately pelted it with shoes. Saddam installed a mosaic of the first president Bush's face on the ground floor of his palace so that visitors would be forced to disrespect Bush by walking on his visage in their shoes.
Shahin himself couldn't get away from this pan-Arabic shoe fetish, adding: "The incidents of Muslims being attacked kind of shocked me in my shoes." Note to imams trying to fabricate hate crimes against Muslims: Americans don't share your shoe neurosis.
At Reagan National this week, Rabbis joined the Muslims at the prayer protest -- though one imagines they did not share this prayer from the Hadith: "And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and tree will say: 'O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!'" In fairness, they usually save that one for the high holidays, like the "Festival of the Six Dead Jews" or "Honor Killing Week."
Nor this one, also from the Hadith: "The Prophet said: 'The Hour will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them. The Muslims will kill the Jews. Rejoice! Rejoice in Allah's victory!'" (Is it just me, or might some fanatic twist those words into an excuse to kill Jews?)
Also strange was that the NAACP has piped in to complain about racial profiling of Muslims. The only reason Americans feel guilty about "racial profiling" against blacks is because of the history of discrimination against blacks in this country.
What did we do to the Arabs? I believe Americans are the victims in that relationship. After the attacks of 9/11, profiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan.
Should every Army veteran, including American citizens, have been deported on 4/20/1995 under the theory that citizenship is a privilege?
So far as I know, there was one chaplain accused and never convicted of siding with the terrorists at Guantanmo.
I don't know of any others.
The word "chaplain" is used to refer to the military representatives of faith groups in the army.
Profiling is generally a behavioral thing. KKKers traveling by air, sitting quietly reading the magazine of their choice, are profiled as being reasonable travelers. Six muslims praying loudly before they board a US Airways plane are profiling themselves as NOT being reasonable travelers. They were taunting the other passengers in hopes of creating such a stir as they got. They, militant muslims, keep pushing the envelope of "tolerance" looking for weak spots in America's defenses.
Profile him
Muslim appearance...Muslim smell...Muslim actions - Can you describe these for me?
Get serious, I was joking about the smell part, but appearance (clothes, beards) and actions (Praying to Allah, etc) are pretty self explanatory
What I'm saying is that if we're depending on the profiling abilities of a $10 per hour TSA rent-a-cop then we're living in a fantasy land. Threats should be stopped by law enforcement before they make it anywhere near the airport.
Straw man.
I never said to depend on them, I just think they should be allowed, taught, and encouraged. Profiling is one tool, not the only one.
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I declare a fataw on the six imans. Open season on all six. This is a test of our resolve. Wipe them out...
I think that it is time to establish a registry of all muslims in the U.S...List by name, address and occupation. Possibly a web site where the above can be noted. The fact that this evil cult looks upon all others as infidels and lessor beings would hardly protect them from what is termed discrimination.
Don't worry, political correctness runs so deep in the mindset of this country that the Islamofascists could nuke L.A. and we wouldn't do much more to offend muslim sensibilities than we did after 9/11.
Well after 9/11 somenutjob went out and shot a Sikh man. After the american hiroshima then what happens?
Some nut job will go out and kill a Romanian? I don't know. The fact remains that there was essentially zero American anti-Muslim reaction after 9/11. What I did witness personally was a lot of liberals bending over backwards to be extra nice to muslims as a public display of their "open-mindedness" after 9/11.
Pre-emptive apology to anyone who reads this in the morning or finds it in bad taste.
That may be the funniest thing I've read all month. And completely true.
This issue against profiling against any type of threat is a false argument.
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Profiling needs to be done.
But this thing that they did on the plane was for one reason: to give the newly-elected jihadist-sympathizer reason to introduce legislation to prohibit the exact kind of profiling that needs to be done.
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