Gingrich: Imams should have been arrested

UPI ^ | 17 DEC 2006 | UPI

[radar101]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told an audience in New Hampshire Muslim clerics pulled off a plane for praying should have been charged criminally.

Gingrich made the remark Friday night, as he delivered the keynote speech at the Manchester Republican City Committee Christmas dinner, the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader reported.

"Those six people should have been arrested and prosecuted for pretending to be terrorists," Gingrich said. "And the crew of the U.S. airplane should have been invited to the White House and congratulated for being correct in the protection of citizens."

The imams, who had been attending a conference in Minneapolis, were pulled off a US Air flight to Phoenix after other passengers said they had been acting suspicious. They were questioned by the FBI for several hours and then released.

Their suspicious behavior apparently consisted of reports that they had prayed in Arabic and that they were not sitting together but had walked around to talk to each other.

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[jwparkerjr]

Amen! I am definitely a Newt for President supporter, but just his presence in the race would add so much. Love him or hate him people need to hear him.

I am a firm believer in divine providence. If you want something you do everything in your power to make it happen and you pray for the outcome. If it's to be, the God will provide the rest of what's needed to bring it to fruition. If it doesn't happen it just means it was not God's plan or He has a better idea!

[GregoryFul]

Well Diogenesis wanted to: "Lock them up. Throw away the key. (as a minimum, or hang them)." That seems to be excessive for "acting suspiciously."

At PHL, an incident had a young man thrown off a flight (and the next) for having a book with a bomb depicted on its cover.

A pilot was fired because he gave lip when challenged for carrying a nail clip. Insanity at the airport reigns, for sure. People ought to be challenging this nonsense, but apparently the Muslims are the only ones with the sack to do it these days.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Go Newt Go!

[radar101]

What law did they break?

Rude, Arrogant, Inciting in public.

[Doc Savage]

Got my vote and my wife's! That's 3. Let's rock!

[EGPWS]

"Those six people should have been arrested and prosecuted for pretending to be terrorists," Gingrich said.

We should have pretended to stuff them with pork and pretended to lock them up in a pig sty.

[etradervic]

If they are not citizens, they should be deported.

[StoneWall Brigade]

I'm voting for him!

[NewLand]

If we have another 9/11, Newt, Tancredo, or someone like them, is a shoo-in for the Presidency.

Newt, yes. Tancredo, never. But I agree with the premise. I would add a military candidate as a possiblity, such as Franks or Pace, should they choose to run.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I wish but I don't think so.

[BW2221]

"IMHO, there was an organized act of intimation, designed to instill fear (terror) in both of the passengers and flight crew,..these Imams, preach, fear (terror) every day to their followers, as a means to keep the Muslims in line"

Or was planned along with CAIR as a tactic to battle profiling.

Either way, it obviously was planned.

[BW2221]

"If we have another 9/11, Newt, Tancredo, or someone like them, is a shoo-in for the Presidency."

It's amazing how quickly we (the American people) have forgotten about 9/11 and how U.S. Muslims have actually benefited from it.

[BW2221]

You wanna be on a flight with them?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Didn't anybody notice that the MSM is already beginning to demonetize Newt or any other conservative candidate?

The Media head lines on this incident read to the effect; "Newt Gingrich says Muslim Clerics should be thrown in jail for praying before flight!"

Don't worry, there will be countless "Polls" and misinformation like this to come. This is the real problem in this country, the constant flow of lies and propaganda.

[observer5]

Too bad that Washington doesn't want or need any clear-thinking intelligent polititians.

Only idiots... that are there now!

[DManA]

Newt's the MAN!

[robertpaulsen]

"They were deliberately provocative, unlike the woman ... breast-feeding"

They were deliberately provocative, just like the woman ... breast-feeding.

[thinking]

Yes!

[JimFreedom]

Those remarks are going to cause you big trouble here, LOL! But you are RIGHT!