Posted on 12/01/2006 11:51:49 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Can you believe the six imams kicked off the US Airways flight in Minneapolis are threatening to sue?
Can you believe they're walking around free rather than being held and investigated for "probing" on behalf of terrorists?
Can you believe most of the media coverage of this incident focuses on possible civil rights violations and inappropriate religious "profiling"?
Let's review the facts of the case:
Several passengers on the flight complained to the crew about excessively loud "praying" by the Muslim "holy men." They complained that they were moving around the plane. An air marshal characterized their behavior as a "[political correctness] probe." Even before they boarded the flight, passengers and the flight crew reported the imams prayed loudly, then, once boarding began playing musical chairs switching from their assigned seats in a configuration used by terrorists in previous incidents. Two even moved to the front of first class, while two others moved toward the middle of the plane and the last two moved toward the back effectively giving them control of exits. They asked for seat-belt extensions, which could conceivably be used as weapons, and then threw them under their seats rather than use them. Both before boarding and after, they made a spectacle of themselves chanting about "Allah and the United States."
What would you do if you were on that flight?
What would you do if you were part of the crew?
What would you do if you were the air marshal?
Apparently, what you would be expected to do by second-guessers not actually on the flight would be to smile and think pleasant thoughts about multiculturalism and pluralism.
We're supposed to believe that this wasn't planned?
We're supposed to believe these guys didn't know what they were doing?
We're supposed to believe that this wasn't a deliberate effort to test the boundaries of tolerance?
These imams are now on a national publicity tour trying to persuade us that they are as American as apple pie that they did nothing wrong or even suspicious. Don't buy it.
And if these imams are permitted to win a lawsuit against US Airways, say goodbye to airline security in America.
Five years after Sept. 11, 2001, political correctness appears to be a more powerful force in our country than the safety and security of American citizens.
It's really quite unbelievable.
It's quite clear that these six imams have an agenda beyond acceptance of their religion by Americans.
Most Americans don't pre-judge Muslims as terrorists. But when they act like terrorists, when they don't act like good Americans, when they clearly test our tolerance, when they "probe" our defenses, then Americans have the right and duty to treat them with the utmost suspicion.
What do you think would happen to you if you acted this way on a flight?
It seems like these activists don't really want to be treated equally, they want to be treated in a special way with more deference, with more understanding.
I don't like traveling any more in this country. I don't like it because of the extra security that is in place much of it by necessity because of what happened Sept. 11. I minimize my travels because of the inconvenience and hassle.
But we're at war. And the hassles are a small price to pay to ensure we save American lives and emerge from this war victorious some day.
Americans must not succumb to the temptation to be "politically correct" by overlooking suspicious behavior. That would be a grave if not fatal tactical error in this war.
In this day and age of the MSM/DBM takeover, I see absolutely nothing wrong with this report. The truth will as usual go unreported. The terrorists will laugh in our face again. Brought to you by the lib,left,hack media apparatus. Great job voters, way to stay home. You really taught them a lesson!
Good article, thanks. It might be a good thing if the imams sue, it will keep this story alive.
Apparently the left controls every aspect of American security now except for the presidency - that's coming 2008. The question is, why has it all been given away so willingly.
"Americans must not succumb to the temptation to be "politically correct" by overlooking suspicious behavior. That would be a grave if not fatal tactical error in this war."
Well, they ought to be uncommonly grateful for not being summarily skinned, tenderized and deboned on the spot [in any order].
bttt
Once these facts are established (ie passengers and crew agree to testify) then we should have Congressional hearings about the treatment of these poor Muslims on the plane. Give Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee and Keith Ellison enough rope to hang themselves. Could you imagine the public reaction to individuals testifying how much fear they had when these inmans started behaving in this fashion?
If these Imams, (spelled terrorist suspects) cannot travel with a normal comportment in their activities then they should not be allowed on any airplane.
They should be put on a suspect list and kept of all planes
except a plane which would transport them back to the center of Muslimism.
Certainly a question I have been wanting an answer too as well. It seems to me be to related to the closeness of elections when just the base voter is involved. No one in the base is changing their minds, so the result would be razor thin.
This, despite what appears to be abject stupidity, of the other party. So it is minorities and the "disenfranchised that are able to swing elections in a big way, to the tune of 10 or 20, 000 votes, when the result should be overwhelming.
By the media taking sides, and relentlessly appealing to deception, scare tactics deliberate distortion of the truth, outright lies, and emotional appeals, they can swing the uninformed, and unintelligent voter who's only access to the truth is through the MSM.
A question might be what of truth and the msm? Appearances this election are that greater numbers of immigrants, legal or illegal, blacks, Hispanics, free and open borders nuts, abortion solves all women's problems proponents, and America hating, get us out of Iraq, peace in our time lefties, are all aligned to help in the desired change in direction, engineered by a few for the "benefit" of the majority.
This episode is just another reminder to America, that the MSM is wrong to try to convince us the war on terror is over.
Infinitely preferable to Democrats acting like Democrats.
I would have flown the aircraft and not said a thing. Why? It may have been a chance to see if my skills were still intact.
Notice the mosques in your AO. Notice what goes in, and what comes out. One day, it may be a target rich environment.
5.56mm
Hi,
Next time let the passengers do what the Brits did when defence-probers got on the plane
wearing heavy jackets in the Mediterreanian summer.
They talked among themselves and then decided to
get off the flight. At which point, the authorities
took action.
Magooey
But we should!
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