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Muslim religious leaders kicked off U.S. domestic flight after pilot refuses to take off with them
Daily Mail ^ | May 7, 2011

Posted on 05/07/2011 1:39:07 PM PDT by NCjim

Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis - and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard.

Masudur Rahman and another imam had already been allowed to board their Delta Connection flight from Memphis, Tennessee, to Charlotte, North Carolina before they were asked to get off the plane.

'It's racism and bias because of our religion and appearance and because of misinformation about our religion.' Mr Rahman said. 'If they understood Islam, they wouldn't do this.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384592/Muslim-religious-leaders-told-leave-U-S-domestic-flight-pilot-refuses-aboard.html#ixzz1LhUeCpct

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: islam; islamisnotarace
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To: NCjim

Misinformation about their religion! Oh really!!!!!!!!!

And of course, no passenger would admit to complaining because they know these low life scum will sue them.


22 posted on 05/07/2011 2:15:32 PM PDT by Carley (We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. W, 9/20/01)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

“It seems like the two guys who were booted off the plane were headed for a conference on...(drum roll)
prejudice against Muslims.”

It is fair to conclude they purposely got themselves booted off for publicity.


23 posted on 05/07/2011 2:21:01 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Cyman

Numerious other articles:

http://news.google.com/news/more?hl=en&q=muslims+kicked+off+plane+in+memphis&biw=1172&bih=543&um=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&wrapid=tlif130480264053910&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dIVR2_yp1EhpvxMdpPicDNi-nFd8M&ei=arXFTeSsJo-C0QHHqsykCA&sa=X&oi=news_result&ct=more-results&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQqgIwAA


24 posted on 05/07/2011 2:24:27 PM PDT by deport
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To: South40

I used to get upset when I saw or heard of muslims and liberals misusing the “RACISM” label.

Then I realized that by overplaying the RACE CARD they are doing a fine job of destroying its effectiveness.

Even people overly concerned about race issues have to be getting tired of hearing every issue reduced to accusations about race.

I an surprised that blacks haven’t spoken out on the issue to protect their race card “franchise”.


25 posted on 05/07/2011 2:58:34 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Every day we now throw away things people will kill for after SHTF.)
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To: NCjim

Captain to passengers:
This is your captain speaking. We will be over bib ladins watery grave site in 5 minutes. Will all religion of peace advocates please report to the bomb bay area.
Thank you. Allah Akhbar.


26 posted on 05/07/2011 3:04:44 PM PDT by certrtwngnut
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To: NCjim

27 posted on 05/07/2011 3:09:38 PM PDT by Bobalu ( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
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To: NCjim

Offer a lizard and brain dish as a settlement.

Lizard in Restaurant Sold for $8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2716650/posts


28 posted on 05/07/2011 3:14:38 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: bgill

I fear the Muslim clerics have more rights in this situation. The pilot will probably be out of a job very soon.


29 posted on 05/07/2011 3:19:52 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: NCjim

“If they understood Islam, they wouldn’t do this.”

On September 11, 2001 at about 15:45 EST, my boss walked into my cubicle, looked at the empty chair next cube over, and asked me if Christoffer had left to see his girlfriend in Calif. that morning.

He didn’t make it to the west coast.http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/people/1544.html

So, screw you, Mr Rahman. Screw your filthy death-dealing cult. And screw those two Muslim “religious leaders.”

Am I clear?


30 posted on 05/07/2011 3:21:09 PM PDT by Peet (Leftists think personal liberty is so important it must be carefully rationed.)
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To: Kirkwood

“It is fair to conclude they purposely got themselves booted off for publicity.”

The publicity could then be used to stop screening of “obvious” Muslim passengers, thereby permitting them to board with their boxcutters and mace. Seriously.


31 posted on 05/07/2011 3:26:37 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: NCjim

good !

Constitutionally outlaw islam

it’s a cult , not a religion


32 posted on 05/07/2011 3:27:28 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Peet

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/may/06/delta-pilot-orders-muslim-clerics-get-plane-memphi/

Article from the Memphis paper..


33 posted on 05/07/2011 3:30:37 PM PDT by pnz1
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To: NCjim
'If they understood Islam, they wouldn't do this.'

These days we are only allowed to speak the exact opposite of the truth.

34 posted on 05/07/2011 3:32:29 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: NCjim
'If they understood Islam, they wouldn't do this.'

If they understood Islam we'd be talking about a B52 pilot not a 737......

35 posted on 05/07/2011 3:38:43 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US Government to Kill Commies and Radical Moo-slims. Now ain't that irOnic?)
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To: NCjim

Too bad this does not happen more often.


36 posted on 05/07/2011 3:40:00 PM PDT by Exton1
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To: NCjim

“Mr Rahman said. ‘If they understood Islam, they wouldn’t do this.’”

Quite right! If America understood Islam, we would be playing Cowboys & Moslims.


37 posted on 05/07/2011 3:54:37 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: NCjim

I can’t believe that these were the first two Muslim men who even flew on a plane piloted by this guy. Has he had other problems with Muslim men? If not what was it about these two men that caused him to react this way. There apparently were other passengers who were also concerned. Why were the upset? Do they have a history of anit-Muslim behavior and statements? Are they the hysterical type? If not what in the behavior of the two men in question caused them to have concerns?

The media has a long long history of covering up the other side of stories like this. The attack on the El Al terminal in LA a few years ago (the fact that it was the airline of the state of Israel the staff was Jewish and most of the passengers were Jewish the attacker was a 41 year old Egyptian national and Muslim and similar to attacks in Rome and Vienna made no difference to the media who down played the terrorism angle) and , the 7 men on the flight that wondered about making repeated trips in sequence to the bathroom and standing in unison (later shown to be a dry run), the Fort Hood shooting, the attack on the military recruiter in Little Rock, the Time Square Bombing attack and many other incidents all were downplayed by the media and bigotry in tying the events to Islam was played up.


38 posted on 05/07/2011 3:59:41 PM PDT by airedale
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To: South40

Everybody applauds the decision but rabble. It’s just impolitic to say so.


39 posted on 05/07/2011 4:32:59 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Show me the body.)
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To: NCjim

I still don’t get why they were removed. The pilot was afraid of traditional garb? Were security officials able to research the ideological positions of the two men after they learned they were scholars; and then relay that info to the captain?

Absent more data, the airline is going to have to settle out of court because they have no chance of winning.

Unfortunately.


40 posted on 05/07/2011 5:29:26 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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