Woman says she was kicked off plane for breast-feeding baby > Well, no problem except being sick from just thinking of it AND the law-suit.
Posted on 11/21/2006 4:26:24 AM PST by libstripper
MINNEAPOLIS - Six Muslim imams were removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Monday and questioned by police for several hours before being released, a leader of the group said.
The six were among passengers who boarded Flight 300, bound for Phoenix, around 6:30 p.m., airport spokesman Pat Hogan said.
A passenger initially raised concerns about the group through a note passed to a flight attendant, according to Andrea Rader, a spokeswoman for US Airways. She said police were called after the captain and airport security workers asked the men to leave the plane and the men refused.
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"Shahin expressed frustration that — despite extensive efforts by him and other Muslim leaders since even before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — so many Americans know so little about Islam."
Despite what efforts?
Standing up in a plane, making hundreds of people around you very nervous without explanation, not complying with requests to leave (which was probably more like please take your seat or we will need you to leave),,,those efforts?
It seems to me that the Islamics are only concerned with the US learning about Islam, period. They never, ever speak to their responsibility of learning about the American culture they are living in. How convenient.
This is not a religion.
“If up to now they don’t know about prayers, this is a real problem,”
No problem for me, dips#it! If up to now you don't realize that you and your terrorist trainers needs to sit the hell down and shut the hell up, this is a real problem....
Militant
All interstate travel for imams should be by VW microbus.
Exactly: what efforts? In 45 years of plane-travel, I've never seen a muslim (or anyone else) stand to say prayers on a plane. This is just part of the edge-of-the-envelope push (like insisting on the wearing of scarves/burkahs) to establish quirks of their culture as sacrosanct. And in a way we deserve it by encouraging phony notions of diversity and multiculturalism.
"Three of them stood and said their normal evening prayers together on the plane, as 1.7 billion Muslims around the world do every day, Shahin said. He attributed any concerns by passengers or crew to ignorance about Islam."
Three Islamites stand up on a plane and start praying, and they don't expect people to be concerned? They are either delusional (highly probable) or this was a deliberate provocation. Why couldn't they say their "prayers" in private before they got on the plane, or wait until they got off? And why did someone have to pass a note to the crew to get some action? Wasn't the crew paying attention to the 3 muslims chanting what could be their final ode to Allah?
I had the utter misfortune to be waylaid in the Minneapolis airport for four hours last week where I was tortured with food grown in the Pleistocene era, no place to light up a cigar, needed to find directions via people who spoke in rune stones and the air was sucked into the building with a honking vacuum cleaner whose filter hadn't been cleaned since 1951.
They should have been charged, since they would not cooperate with the airline authorities. The police had to get them off the plane. I think the amorous couple, who refused to obey the stewardess, were charged with a crime. Why not these guys?
You are exactly right...it won't be long before all flights will be required to taxi and park facing East so any mooselimbs on board can do their prayer thing. I can see on long flights, DELTA providing Delta-engraved prayer mats for the loonies to get down on the floor and bang their foreheads...the onboard TV screen will be required to always have an arrow pointing toward mecca. It will first happen on Air France, then soon after, here.
Yeah, that guy was on his way to Phoenix too.
God forbid these a$$holes assimilate into our culture. I don't get on planes with imams...period.
I can almost make out the smallest violin to ever exist, playing in a distant galaxy.
Yes, good old "take a chance on Air France" would be the first. Happily, however, it doesn't look as though KLM will be following suit.
It's been pointed ot that the imams could have taken a different flight if they were so picky about prayers.
There were 6 imams on the plae.
Only 3 stood up
SO it was troublemaking, notreligious necessity
Muslims seem genuinely baffled by the western desire for self preservation.
Who cares, if they are offended let them walk.
What a great point! If their prayer times are that sacred, then take flights that don't conflict. How hard could that be?
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