November 21, 2006

Imams Thrown off Flight, Respond with Veiled Threats of Muslim Outrage

Six imams were removed from a flight:

Muslim leaders expressed outrage on Tuesday after six imams were removed from a commercial airline flight in Minnesota for what they said was nothing more than trying to say evening prayers.

...Patrick Hogan, spokesman for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission, said the airline asked airport police to remove the six men from the Minneapolis to Phoenix flight because their actions were "arousing some concerns" among both passengers and crew.

He said the men had been praying at the gate area but he did not know if they tried to pray once at their seats inside the plane.

He also said some witnesses reported the men were making anti-American statements involving the Iraq war, asked to change seats once inside the cabin, that one requested an extender to make his seat belt larger even though he did not appear to need it and that in general "there was some peculiar behavior."

I'd be concerned too if I saw a bunch of imams praying before a flight. I've rarely heard of imams praying for a safe flight. I've rarely heard of imams praying to be protected from Islamic terrorists. On the contrary, there is tremendous documentation of imams praying for terrorism, and praying for people to blow up planes, etc., in the name of Islam.

Muslim leaders expressed outrage on Tuesday after six imams were removed from a commercial airline flight in Minnesota for what they said was nothing more than trying to say evening prayers.

"They were treated like terrorists ... humiliated," said Abu Hannoud, civil rights director for the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who said the men were taken off the US Airways flight in handcuffs.

..."They were rewarded by being treated like terrorists," [Hannoud] said. "Their humiliation is really a humiliation for the entire Muslim community," he added,

Note that these imams don't say one word condemning terrorists who blow up planes, trains, busses, and restaurants in the name of Islam. They don't like being treated like terrorists, but they don't say that anyone who is a terrorist is lost to Islam.

On the contrary, they make a statement that contains a veiled threat, by claiming outrage and "humiliation for the entire Muslim community."

In current Islamic culture, outrage is considered a sufficient pretext for rioting, burning buildings, etc., e.g. the cartoon riots, which were ascribed by Muslims to nothing more than a sense of outrage. So when these imams claim outrage, not only for themselves, but for the "entire Muslim community," they are making a veiled threat of violence. They prove that we are right to be vigilant against Islamofascism and Islamic terrorism in the U.S.

If imams don't like being thrown off of flights, they need to start holding rallies, marches, and vigils in which they loudly proclaim that anyone who blows up planes, trains, busses, and restaurants in the name of Islam, is lost to Islam, with no "ifs" "ands" or "buts". Until they separate themselves from the Islamic terrorists, they cannot claim to deserve to be considered separate from the Islamic terrorists.

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