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Apparently, after being detained for a few hours and being told by US Air that their tickets had been refunded and they couldn’t purchase new ones, the head imam Shahin purchased 6 tickets from NorthWest.

5 for Phoenix and 1 for Los Angeles (one of the imams is actually from Bakersfield, CA).

It’s entirely possible that he decided not to visit with his AZ friends after having been ‘humiliated’ by being taken off the plane.

However, I also find it suspicious that he suddenly didn’t need to go to Arizona anymore. Perhaps the business of getting kicked off the plane was his only business in AZ.

This whole situation stinks…..

Forget that. Unless they want to pay the 10X higher costs for those seats, they can plan their publicity stunts in coach with the rest of us cattle.

The nerve of some people!

http://www.imamsofamerica.com/NAIF2006.pdf

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Michelle Malkin posts: Standing Up To The Flying Imams – you had to know the thing was a set-up, they took basically the same seating positions as the 9/11 terrorists. Check the links.

And she also links Allah, who mentions Muslim Co…

No, on 9/11 they used perfectly legal boxcutters. Why were they legal? I dunno, they should NOT have been, but they were. Seat belt extentions can be used as choking and restraining devices. We (Flight Crew) have many items onboard that seem harmless but we know how to use them as weapons.

Most flights have Air Marshals just WAITIN’ for an excuse to kick somebody’s ass.

Here’s a perfect example of what I was talkin’ about before. Right now as I type this I am sittin’ in the last row of a Southwest plane, (Deadheading, not working the flight) we are almost done boarding. A group of seven muslims just got on. All they had left to choose from were middle seats in the back of the aircraft, hence they are of no threat. Had they assigned seats, aisle seats in the very front, the very back and the exit rows, they’d be a concern. Now they can’t do anything. If they had gotten there early and DID get those seats, the Crew would take notice and prepare themselves for it. How? Sorry, that’s classified. If I tell ya, I gotta kill ya.

Don’t think that every jihadi and their brother isn’t watching every last comment, policy adjustment and fart being made by every airline. This will allow them to adjust their plan, and try another dry run with new twists. Seat belt extensions were unattainable, so they will ask for something else. Prayer attracts a lot of attention-DUH, wearing Western clothes, how did that work?

Michelle Malkin posts: Standing Up To The Flying Imams – you had to know the thing was a set-up, they took basically the same seating positions as the 9/11 terrorists. Check the links. And she also links Allah, who mentions…

“Sheiks on a Plane” – Full credit goes to Kevin on that one.

This is more likely, if its anything (which one has reason to doubt), a stunt to bring attention to profiling and security measures, in order to advance the causes of Islamism among the minority population. Look at who’s jumping “on-board”, so to speak, in support of these losers. They all seem to be the “racial-profiling” crowd.

More and more, folks are selling this anti-profiling garbage as racism, when it was always good police method and sensible precaution. The ultimate aim is for people to look at race *LAST* in any issue of security or enforcement, when race is often the most visible and reliable indicator of potential for mischief. That is not to say that all Arab males are hijackers, any more than it is to say that all black males are drug dealer. What it *DOES* say is that, if you get 19 guys, all Arab males, hijacking airplanes, don’t waste your time asking 90 year-old Christmas-bound grandmas to remove their shoes for the 13th time.

One might also be advised to see how this incident is used in fund-raising, both in the Islamic and the native minority grievance communities. If you create apparent unfairness, it appears the same as uncovering genuine unfairness.

In the end, it seems that the airline’s security system worked as it was supposed to work. Six suspicious persons were stopped. It’s better to stop someone and apologize later than to be nice and have to apologize to the bereaved relatives of your 100+ passengers and crew.

They quote two pilots from other airlines and two former air marshals, all of whom say the imams’ behavior was cause for concern.

That would have been enough for me. Suspicious behavior is suspicious. Suspicion requires clarification. If those questioned don’t like it, they can take the bus next time they travel.

…as a side-note, I find it interesting that the moron who’s turning this into a referrendum on race calls himself Mahdi Bray. From Wikipedia:

The Mahdi (”Guided One” ), in Islamic eschatology, is the prophesied redeemer of Islam, who will change the world into a perfect Islamic society alongside the Prophet Jesus before Yaum al-Qiyamah (literally “Day of the Resurrection”). The “hdi” of “Mahdi” refers to the Arabic root which means “to guide”.

…as a convert, I doubt that “Mahdi” is his birthname (e.g., Malcolm Little >> Malik El-Shabazz, Everett LeRoi Jones >> Amiri Baraka, etc.). I looked for a minute or two for his actual name, but quickly lost interest.

It’s rather like a person converting to Buddhism and deciding to change his name to “Bodhisattva”.

Personally, I’m considering changing my name to Imam Al-Hajj His Excellency President-For-Life Idi Amin Dada The Honorable Guru Long-Penis Puritan1648, Defender of the Faith. It’ll be expensive getting the cards printed, but it might get me seating upgrades on airlines other than US Air.
Anyone with any spare honorifics to sell, I’ve still got room.

Part Deux. Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted “Allah” when passengers were called for boarding US Airways Flight 300 to Phoenix. “I was suspicious by the way they were praying very……

You know that it is going to become a growing trend…
“Did you pack your prayer rug in your carry-on?”