Michelle Starts things off with the best headline (apart from mine of course)
Michelle Malkin: The flying extortionists
Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times has the latest on the grievance-mongering flying imams and their attempted extortion:
A group …

Sorry Glenn, it IS evil, it’s TRUE followers kill infidels…
Tony737 on December 12, 2006 at 8:50 PM

Franklin Graham said this a while back (viz. Islam is EVIL.) and when I first heard it, I thought he’d gone off the deep-end. I have since been doing some reading. I now believe that Franklin Graham is not only correct, but he is FAR TOO kind and FAR TOO politically correct. Read this people. ISLAM IS EVIL. PERIOD. NO EXCEPTIONS. The world will never be at peace until this so-called “faith” is wiped off the map. Permanently. And yes, I AM proud to be “an intolerant extremist” on this issue.

HotAir People: Skip that book and read “Because They Hate”. Man, I burned through that book in 2 days and that was with me trying to save it to make it last until my 3 day trip was over. (No, not ACID trip)!

Sort of off topic, I was listening to Glenn Beck today, whom I normally agree with, but today he said “Islam is not evil, it’s been hijacked by extremists, blah blah blah…) Sorry Glenn, it IS evil, it’s TRUE followers kill infidels. The millions of muslims who *don’t* murder non-believers are it’s version of “Easter Catholics”. And there is NO seperation of mosque and state in the koran, Glenn. Still love ya anyway, ya sick, twisted freak!

I think I prefer the Roman approach.

Professor Blather on December 12, 2006 at 11:00 AM

You mean…crucify the imams? Don’t you dare entertain thoughts like that. Legend has it that even Saint Peter felt unworthy to die in the same way as our Lord. I’m no fan of General Douglas MacArthur, but purportedly, he DID have an effective way of dealing with Muslim insurgents. Death by firing squad using bullets that had been soaked in pigs blood. That way, the executed criminal is defiled and his soul goes straight to “Muslim hell” (by virtue of their own stupid rules).

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention….

As for servicemen and women traveling on airplanes, my son (a Marine) tells me that except for certain chartered flights, when he travels commercial on a government ticket, he is told to NOT wear his uniform and fly in civilian clothes, instead. He also tells me that any plane he or any of his unit are on, is NOT going to be hijacked by anyone.

Imagine the surprise the Jihadists would experience as this rather ordinary-looking, kind of slovenly dressed, tall, skinny kid gets out of his seat and proceeds to start kicking their butts into next Tuesday.

“Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They’re aggressive on the attack and tenacious on defense. They’ve got really short hair and they always go for the throat.” — Rear Admiral Jay Stark, U.S. Navy

There is no cry, there is no rage. At best, there is the most tepid of disclaimers. In short, there is no passion. But for victimization, always.

Raymond Ibrahim explains:

Islam get concessions; infidels get conquered

… we STILL bend over backwards for the Muslims in our midst, even when they so clearly don’t deserve to be treated as special. This entire episode is such a no-brainer that the average 3-year old would grasp it: after 9/11, you simply do not look the other way when a group of Muslims begins praying and spouting off anti-Americanism before boarding a plane …

… and, of course, can you IMAGINE what liberals would say if their own political correctness had led to that plane taking off … and the worst had happened? Do you think they’d accept responsibility? Or would they gleefully blame the Bush administration for failing to stop a terrorist act? You decide which is more likely.

I can’t believe these people are playing the victim card, and getting away with it.

In a way, I suppose it ought to make me proud. What a strange, amazing, grand country we have, that would still – after so much pain – work so hard to treat these people with such care and respect. No other nation on Earth would do the same. Obviously, no world power in history would have done the same. Imagine this scene in ancient Rome. Imagine how these people would be treated.

Maybe it’s a testament to just how different America is. Maybe, in a way, it’s a good thing.

But it’s really too bad that the very thing that makes us what we are is almost certainly going to get millions of us killed, sooner or later ….

I think I prefer the Roman approach.

Give your son a big, wet, nasty kiss from this Marine’s wife. Just when I think I can’t love these heros any more than I do… I hear about YET ANOTHER story of selfless giving…Bless your entire family.

Cindy and the NJ widows spew anti-Bush bile from their self-proclaimed morally superior pedestal built upon personal grief, egged on by the MSM. Vapid arguments and weepy rhetoric convince no one.

Kudos to people like Ms. Burlingame who have triumphed over personal trajedy and loss to champion liberty for themselves and others.

Any judge worth his/her salt would recognize that this was a staged event meant to incite fear.