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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806727/posts

Katherine Kersten: Hulk Hogan of legal world volunteers to go up against imams
StarTribune ^ | 3/25/07 | Katherine Kersten

Posted on 03/25/2007 8:31:28 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

I wrote last week about the "flying imams"' federal lawsuit, which sets a new low in efforts to intimidate passengers concerned about air travel safety. Buried in Paragraph 21 of the imams' complaint is a legal landmine: The imams plan to sue "John Does" -- innocent bystanders -- who alerted the authorities about their security concerns. Since then, volunteer defenders of the John Does have stepped forward, locally and around the country.

Dr. Zudhi Jasser, an Arizona physician who heads the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, offered to raise money to pay the defendants' legal costs. The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in Washington, D.C. -- whose clients have included Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus -- offered to represent the John Does without charge. Eleven members of Congress, including Minnesota's John Kline, are co-sponsoring legislation that would bar suits against individuals who report "suspicious behavior" to security personnel in good faith.

But the real bull in the imams' china shop is right here in Minnesota. Like some legal equivalent of Hulk Hogan, Gerry Nolting of Minneapolis law firm Faegre & Benson, came storming out of his corner last week.

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