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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.
One more terrorist attack in America and "profiling" will be the least of their worries.
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For sure. One more 9/11 and it will get ugly. And a dysfunctional government can only blame itself for its own failures.
What do you mean?
Necesarrily ugly, I'm afraid.
internment?
Why should we pay to intern muslim foreigners.
Every muslim swingin' dick in America should have been deported on 9/12/2001 and that includes muslim Americans.
Citizenship is a privilege not a right
And either we are at war or we aren't
Our ancestors didn't risk their lives coming to this country just so a bunch of camel jockeys could come here, terrorize our women & children and make hamburger out of our families.
"Will people like me (brown but red blooded) get it also?"
"get" what?
I like your way of thinking. I couldn't agree more.
Profiling is just that...looking at a profile of a person. The persons appearance is one component of a profile i.e. color of skin, gender, age, ethnic traits etc. Profiling has been used successfully for years to target criminals especially drug "mules" and dealers. To not use profiling is akin to covering your ears and saying "I can't here you".
If people get killed because our "leaders" forced are LE to cover their ears, these "leaders" will be complicit in their deaths.
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HA! See the post just below yours. :)
"Profiling is just that...looking at a profile of a person."
Profiling is nothing but reliance upon common sense.
Banning Islam entirely would be so much easier. ;)
The whole imam thing was a setup. They deliberately acted suspiciously on that flight for some unknown reason.
Did they want to be thrown off? Probably. The big question is WHY.
How do you tell an Arab from an Italian, a Greek or a Persian?
Exactly..
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