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Airport Security Should Be Profiling Arabs(Ann Coulter)
Human Events Online ^ | Nov 29, 2006 | Ann Coulter

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: anncoulter; coulter; muslims; profiling; racialprofiling; shahin; terrorism; terrorists; usairways
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To: Joe Boucher; Eyes Unclouded

I know that. The poster who made the comment to which I responded says he/she is Indian American. I didn't know that because I didn't check the poster's homepage until after I responded. However unfortunate, yes, Indian Americans may also be more subject to profiling. That being said, my heritage is Irish & English, and whereas I might not be profiled on the basis of my ethnicity, I seem to have made "the list" at the airport. I haven't been able to fly once without extra baggage checks since 9/11. It's a real pain in the behind. Even so, I certainly pay attention to the ethnicity of my fellow travelers and I hope airport security is doing the same. That's just common sense.


41 posted on 11/30/2006 5:43:10 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Eyes Unclouded

What mobs? The people have yet to begin to form a mob. I wish they would -- and run all Muslims out of this country on a rail.


42 posted on 11/30/2006 5:44:22 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: kellynla

The reason for wanting to get thrown off the plane had nothing to do with money and everything to do with expanding Muslim power through victimization PCism.


43 posted on 11/30/2006 5:48:27 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: kellynla
After the attacks of 9/11, profiling Muslims is more like profiling the Klan.

Sure, and if a Klan member is wearing a hood and robe your profiling works like a charm. If he's wearing blue jeans and a tee shirt you can't pick him out from everyone else. So how do you profile Muslims? They don't walk around with a big M tatooed on their forehead. What't the alteternative? Make every passenger eat a porkchop? Strip search everyone who isn't blond haired and blue eyed? How exactly would Coulter profile?

44 posted on 11/30/2006 5:48:31 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: kellynla
How? LOL

No, I think it's a reasonable question. How do you tell just by looking at them if a person is a Muslim?

45 posted on 11/30/2006 5:50:16 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: kellynla
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46 posted on 11/30/2006 5:50:37 AM PST by loveitor.. ("I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours..." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Biscuit85
Start with the smell, then proceed to their hatred of American,
If we make a mistake, we could always apologize later. Seems a better approach than tolerating these b@stards, and then having to bury our loved one later, while we listen to the government say they just weren't "prepared".
47 posted on 11/30/2006 5:52:27 AM PST by newcthem
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To: Eyes Unclouded

"How feasible is internment now? Where will the mobs stop? Will people like me (brown but red blooded) get it also?"

Let a car bomb or a nuke (God forbid) go off in an American City and internment might "might" happen.

Unfortunately with the PC mentality of the people in positions of leadership in this country, I don't see it happening until a cataclismic event happens to force their hand.


48 posted on 11/30/2006 5:55:04 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT (In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

"So how do you profile Muslims?"

not my yob man...
it's the highly paid professionals' yob to profile...
but if a middle aged lady on a plane can point them out,
surely you and every other swingin' dick on a plane can.
gezzzzzzz...


49 posted on 11/30/2006 5:56:28 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots. Semper Fi)
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To: night reader

Your name has been added! :)


50 posted on 11/30/2006 5:58:32 AM PST by jellybean (Proud to be an Ann-droid and a Steyn-aholic)
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To: sageb1

"The reason for wanting to get thrown off the plane had nothing to do with money"

and just how would you KNOW that? LMAO

Tell ya what, I'll bet you steak at the Palms that there is a lawsuit filed within a month by some ACLU ambulance chaser.


51 posted on 11/30/2006 6:00:08 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots. Semper Fi)
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To: Non-Sequitur

You can't. However, making educated guesses is just common sense.


52 posted on 11/30/2006 6:01:47 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

"I think it's a reasonable question. How do you tell just by looking at them if a person is a Muslim?"

BTW, I think I'll wait for a response from the person who posed the question originally, thank you.


53 posted on 11/30/2006 6:02:34 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots. Semper Fi)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Would praying loudly in Arabic in the airport be a hint?


54 posted on 11/30/2006 6:04:40 AM PST by maica (9/11 was not ?the day everything changed?, but the day that revealed how much had already changed.)
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To: kellynla

Oh, money is an added bonus, but not the reason.


55 posted on 11/30/2006 6:05:08 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

"but not the reason"

I hate repeating myself...and just how would you KNOW that?


56 posted on 11/30/2006 6:10:18 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots. Semper Fi)
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To: Humidston
Did they want to be thrown off? Probably. The big question is WHY.

Giving you the benefit of any doubt, those are rhetorical questions, aren't they?

It's transparently clear that they wanted the media to pick up the story.

By the time Achmed in the Middle East hears about it, it's just another example of why America must be destroyed.

If a child can't pray during school recess, then why should anybody be allowed to spread rugs on the floor in a boarding area and make a spectacle of their praying by louding calling upon Allah?

And the part of the story of their switching seats and not buckling their seat belts, making anti-American cracks...

I wish some American passengers in that plane would have kicked the crap out of all of them. WITH THEIR SHOES ON!

*THAT* would have been a story.

57 posted on 11/30/2006 6:17:54 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: kellynla

I'm making an educated guess. This is typical behavior. This is what CAIR is doing.


58 posted on 11/30/2006 6:19:01 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: subterfuge

I don't think he was referring to the government's repsonse.


59 posted on 11/30/2006 6:21:06 AM PST by JZelle
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To: sageb1

Whites and christians are profiled all the time. We're crazy, racist, intolerant, etc.


60 posted on 11/30/2006 6:23:26 AM PST by JZelle
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