Racist or Just Smart

Step into these shoes ... You are waiting to board an airplane. You overhear men speaking mostly in Arabic and in some broken-English, denouncing the United States, praising Allah, saying they 'would do whatever was necessary to fulfill their obligations under the Koran.' One passenger is fluent in Arabic, so there was no question what the men were saying. These people are loud, angry, causing a scene. How do you feel? You continue to watch and listen. The men board the airplane, pair off into groups of two, sit in unassigned seats, ask for extra large seatbelts when they obviously don't need them. How do you feel? What do you do?

You don't want to be called racist. You don't want to be the 'one' who sticks his/her neck out and complains to authorities. You think what if they are terrorists? You also think, better safe than sorry, so you do the right thing and report the actions of these men to the stewardess. The captain of the ship, the pilot of the airplane, decides the safety of those in his charge must be protected. Better to check out the situation than take off and have the unthinkable happen ... another terrorist attack here on American soil.

It turns out the passengers (more than one passenger complained), the stewardess and the pilot all made the right decisions. It was not the fact that these men were Arabic or Muslim, it was how they were acting, what they were saying that caused suspicion. Profiling isn't foolproof these days, with 57 year old grandmothers blowing themselves up near Israeli soldiers operating inside Gaza, with children strapping on suicide bombs in the Middle East.

It turns out these 'imams' were not so innocent. Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, reports that one of the imams ejected from that plane, Omar Shahin, was involved with the Islamic charity Kind Hearts, which has had its assets frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department because of its connections to the terrorist group Hamas.

Robert Spencer shares an article in Investors Business Daily, "Kudos to US Airways. Risking fines and a boycott, it did the right thing this week by removing a group of Muslim men from a flight to protect its crew and passengers." The imams refused requests by the pilot to disembark for more screening; three of the men had only one-way tickets and no checked baggage; police had to forcibly remove the men from the flight, whereupon they were taken into custody, searched and released to continue their journey.

With all the facts about the actions of these men, the author says 'they might as well have yelled, "Bomb!" They almost tripped over their robes to get to microphones, CAIR, and the MSM to whine about 'racial profiling', 'racism', and to stir up the masses. Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who will be the first Muslim sworn into Congress (with his hand on the Quran) was an attendee at the conference of imams and has his lips securely planted on CAIR's backside.

CAIR wants congressional hearings to investigate other incidents of "flying while Muslim." Incoming Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., has already drafted a resolution, borrowing from CAIR rhetoric, that gives Muslims special civil-rights protections. source

Now you have done your civic duty as a passenger and reported this strange behavior ... behavior I might add any American citizen should know would bring attention to them if they had used one ounce of common sense God (or Allah) gave them, the dhimmitude begins:

Now comes the nonsense. The Associated Press declares that this is a case of "flying while Muslim," and a TV anchor compares the imams to Rosa Parks. Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations denounced the incident as an example of "Islamophobia," adding, "We are concerned that crew members, passengers and security personnel may have succumbed to fear and prejudice based on stereotyping of Muslims and Islam."

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that its Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is opening an inquiry into the incident. And talk radio is abuzz. "Would they have done the same to a group of priests?" asked one talk radio host. "Or rabbis?" source

In reality, this doesn't have anything to do with Islam, with race, with nationality, .... it has to do with common sense when flying. Don't act like a terrorists and you won't be treated like one.

Robert Spencer also said, ""In a sane world, officials would tell the imams that if they’re upset about being taken off the plane, they should redouble their anti-terror efforts in the Muslim community in the U.S. – which are sorely deficient in any case. They would ascribe their inconveniencing to the sacrifices that are incumbent upon all of us during wartime ... Osama bin Laden, who predicted after 9/11 that soon many more planes would be falling out of the skies, is no doubt enjoying the spectacle." Amen and Amen.

I submit to you that this was all a staged spectacle by these so-called religious men to get publicity for them and for their terrorist supporters in CAIR. It seems they were successful.

Other good reading:
Time Magazine's Dhimmitude, via Always On Watch
Could the partitioning of Iraq be the answer?, Right Wing Guy

Linked with:
123Beta, A Mouth, Nose and Arse
Volunteer Voters, Intelligence or Self Defense?
Stop the ACLU
PETTIFOG, WWI vet, recently honored, dies at 111
Another One Of Those Days, at Biga's Rants
bRight&Early, First Cup

Comments

[Stolen Valor]

Is this the same Jesse Duckworth described in this article: Former Green Beret Jesse Duckworth was a common sight at Dallas-area veterans events in the mid-'80s. Slovenly in dress, he stank of alcohol and always needed a shave. He frequently bragged that he had been awarded the Silver Star for combat heroism.
Photographers gravitated to Duckworth at parades and wreath-laying ceremonies. Journalists asked him for quotes. On Veterans' Day 1986, an Associated Press picture of Duckworth saluting a pair of jungle boots at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Washington Mall appeared in newspapers across the country with captions such as: "Vietnam veteran salutes war dead."
But Duckworth had never been a Green Beret. He was awarded no medals for heroism. And he had not served in Vietnam.
J.W. Duckworth had been a private first class in the Army, and his only overseas duty was in Germany. Court-martialed while at Fort Hood on two charges of AWOL, Duckworth had been sentenced to 40 days hard labor and reduced to private E-1 before being discharged.

http://www.pownetwork.org/phonies/phonies15.htm

[Debbie]

You are right, Sir Duck. Those who don't understand that are doomed. I'm afraid many in our government don't get it. I'm putting up another post later you may be interested in.

[Sir Duck]

news media seems to forget the muslims are the only group tarketing Americans to destroy us. I have been in Iraq & Afghanistan and fixing to go back to Iraq. muslims are your friend face to face but when you turn your back, watch out. We have people doing that in Iraq & Afghan, watching your back. The muslims goal is to take over the world not matter what it takes. This will not end until we beat them at their home and if we don't we will be fighting them here on American soil. People that do not believe this then they need to go and spend time in Iraq & Afghan if they could without getting their heads chopped off, it would change their minds, quick

[Rastaman]

It looks very much like this was a staged event to lower airport security in favor of muslims, to weaken us for another attack. Some in the media are getting this across to the public very well.

Rastaman