[Steve_Seattle]

"this is a customer-service issue . . . where we might need to do outreach"

This is a red flag. Despite the airline's defending its actions, their expressed need to conduct "outreach" indicates that the Imams were at least partly succesful in instilling a sense of guilt and making the airline think that maybe they had been insensitive to Muslims. So I see a step towards dhimmitude even as the airline defends itself. Damn.

[NRA1995]

"this is a customer-service issue . . . where we might need to do outreach"

Wrong, idiot; this is a NATIONAL SECURITY issue where what was needed was done.....kick' em off the plane! Now suck in that chin and shut up!