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Ann Coulter: What can I do to make your flight more uncomfortable?
Human Events Online (Contributors) ^ | 11-22-2006 | Ann Coulter

Posted on 11/22/2006 2:59:00 PM PST by Vinny

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

Witnesses said the imams stood to do their evening prayers in the terminal before boarding, chanting "Allah, Allah, Allah" -- coincidentally, the last words heard by hundreds of airline passengers on 9/11 before they died.

Witnesses also said that the imams were talking about Saddam Hussein, and denouncing America and the war in Iraq. About the only scary preflight ritual the imams didn't perform was the signing of last wills and testaments.

After boarding, the imams did not sit together and some asked for seat belt extensions, although none were morbidly obese. Three of the men had one-way tickets and no checked baggage.

Also they were Muslims.

The idea that a Muslim boycott against US Airways would hurt the airline proves that Arabs are utterly tone-deaf. This is roughly the equivalent of Cindy Sheehan taking a vow of silence. How can we hope to deal with people with no sense of irony? The next thing you know, New York City cab drivers will be threatening to bathe.

Come to think of it, the whole affair may have been a madcap advertising scheme cooked up by US Airways.

It worked with me. US Airways is my official airline now. Northwest, which eventually flew the Allah-spouting Muslims to their destinations, is off my list. You want to really hurt a U.S. air carrier's business? Have Muslims announce that it's their favorite airline.

The clerics had been attending an imam conference in Minneapolis (imam conference slogan: "What Happens in Minneapolis -- Actually, Nothing Happened in Minneapolis"). But instead of investigating the conference, the government is now investigating my favorite airline.

What threat could Muslims flying from Minnesota to Arizona be?

Three of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 received their flight training in Arizona. Long before the attacks, an FBI agent in Phoenix found it curious that so many Arabs were enrolled in flight school. But the FBI rebuffed his request for an investigation on the grounds that his suspicions were based on the same invidious racial profiling that has brought US Airways under investigation and into my good graces.

Lynne Stewart's client, the Blind Sheik, Omar Abdel-Rahman, is serving life in prison in a maximum security lock-up in Minnesota. One of the six imams removed from the US Airways plane was blind, so Lynne Stewart was the one missing clue that would have sent all the passengers screaming from the plane.

Wholly apart from the issue of terrorism, don't we have a seller's market for new immigrants? How does a blind Muslim get to the top of the visa list? Is there a shortage of blind, fanatical clerics in this country that I haven't noticed? Couldn't we get some Burmese with leprosy instead? A 4-year-old could do a better job choosing visa applicants than the U.S. Department of Immigration.

One of the stunt-imams in US Airways' advertising scheme, Omar Shahin, complained about being removed from the plane, saying: "Six scholars in handcuffs. It's terrible."

Yes, especially when there was a whole conference of them! Six out of 150 is called "poor law enforcement." How did the other 144 "scholars" get off so easy?

Shahin's own "scholarship" consisted of continuing to deny Muslims were behind 9/11 nearly two months after the attacks. On Nov. 4, 2001, the Arizona Republic cited Shahin's "skepticism that Muslims or bin Laden carried out attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon." Shahin complained that the government was "focusing on the Arabs, the Muslims. And all the evidence shows that the Muslims are not involved in this terrorist act."

In case your memory of that time is hazy, within three days of the attack, the Justice Department had released the names of all 19 hijackers -- names like Majed Moqed, Ahmed Alghamdi, Mohand Alshehri, Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi and Ahmed Alnami. The government had excluded all but 19 passengers as possible hijackers based on extensive interviews with friends and family of nearly every passenger on all four flights. Some of the hijackers' seat numbers had been called in by flight attendants on the planes.

By early October, bin Laden had produced a videotape claiming credit for the attacks. And by Nov. 4, 2001, the New York Times had run well over 100 articles on the connections between bin Laden and the hijackers -- even more detailed and sinister than the Times' flowcharts on neoconservatives!

Also, if I remember correctly, al Qaeda had taken out full-page ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter thanking their agents for the attacks.

But now, on the eve of the busiest travel day in America, these "scholars" have ginned up America's PC victim machinery to intimidate airlines and passengers from noticing six imams chanting "Allah" before boarding a commercial


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
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To: perfect stranger; AZ_Cowboy
I totally forgot it was Wednesday evening which means

Ann Coulter Ping!

141 posted on 11/22/2006 6:29:30 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Excellent article. Ann has a way with words, LOL.


142 posted on 11/22/2006 6:33:52 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Vinny
A 4-year-old could do a better job choosing visa applicants than the U.S. Department of Immigration. One of the stunt-imams in US Airways' advertising scheme, Omar Shahin, complained about being removed from the plane, saying: "Six scholars in handcuffs. It's terrible."

Yes, especially when there was a whole conference of them! Six out of 150 is called "poor law enforcement." How did the other 144 "scholars" get off so easy?

LOL!

Shahin's own "scholarship" consisted of continuing to deny Muslims were behind 9/11 nearly two months after the attacks. On Nov. 4, 2001, the Arizona Republic cited Shahin's "skepticism that Muslims or bin Laden carried out attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon." Shahin complained that the government was "focusing on the Arabs, the Muslims. And all the evidence shows that the Muslims are not involved in this terrorist act."

These people are quite frankly ... INSANE!!!!

143 posted on 11/22/2006 6:34:28 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: rickmichaels

Yes this is going to be a boon for business for US Airways!


144 posted on 11/22/2006 6:35:29 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: Eva

A chorus or two of Onward Christian Soldiers would be acceptable in such a pre-flight situation, too.


145 posted on 11/22/2006 6:42:19 PM PST by maica (9/11 was not ?the day everything changed?, but the day that revealed how much had already changed.)
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To: Vinny

Shouldn't they have gotten airborne before they threw them off the Plane?? Buy that Lady a Steak, Queen Ann Rox!

Pray for W and Our Troops


146 posted on 11/22/2006 6:42:53 PM PST by bray (Redeploy to Iran)
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To: HardStarboard
Question: If Shahin is suspected of supporting terrorist activity, why the hell isn't he on a no-fly list?

Why hasn't he been arrested, prosecuted and jailed???

147 posted on 11/22/2006 6:46:44 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: RonDog

Why are these goat-humpers even in the country? All they do is bitch about how horrible it is for them here. Go home, goat-humpers, go home!

148 posted on 11/22/2006 6:48:42 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: chiller
Out of the damn country, I say. I've had it with 'em!

Me too!!!!!!

149 posted on 11/22/2006 6:49:25 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: VOA
The West isn't prepared to accept the answer to that question.

More and more of us are at that point. If I hear one more muzzie say 'you need to learn more about islam.....'

I learned all I need to know about islam on Septmber 11.

150 posted on 11/22/2006 6:53:49 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: stockstrader

"Why in the world would they even consider flying on something that was invented by, developed by, and flown by INFIDELS???"

Or sit in a seat formerly occupied by a Infidel, or worse yet...A JEW!!!! Not to mention that someone might have brought along a BLT or pork rinds!!!!

Next time you fly, pack pork rinds or chicarrones as they're called her in the southwest. Best insurance.


151 posted on 11/22/2006 6:57:18 PM PST by oneamericanvoice (Would you like pork rinds with that?)
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To: SandRat
ROFLMAO!
152 posted on 11/22/2006 7:00:48 PM PST by 2111USMC
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To: Vinny

That may be the most beautiful thing I have ever read.


153 posted on 11/22/2006 7:01:58 PM PST by WireAndWood (DNC: if it weren't for groupthink we'd have no think at all.)
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To: fish hawk
4 ways...

equip air marshals with ham grenades...
154 posted on 11/22/2006 7:14:46 PM PST by chickenlips
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To: RonDog
North American Imams Federation

NAIF? Oh, that's rich!

155 posted on 11/22/2006 7:20:48 PM PST by Doohickey (I am not unappeasable. YOU are just too easily appeased.)
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To: Brian Allen

I really had no sympathy once CAIR came out and attacked the airline...


156 posted on 11/22/2006 7:23:23 PM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: brytlea

The perspective of the photograph was apparently no accident. It was deliberately shot that way and Ann was irritated by it, but not much she was able to do about it.


157 posted on 11/22/2006 7:48:32 PM PST by rlmorel (The US Media...Where you get Million Dollar Words From people with a Ten Cent Fart for a brain.)
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To: Vinny

bump for Ann!


158 posted on 11/22/2006 7:56:46 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Chickenhawk Warmonger

Whoa! Good catch!


159 posted on 11/22/2006 7:59:07 PM PST by sgtyork (Prove to us that you can enforce the borders first.)
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To: stockstrader

How about Northwest?


160 posted on 11/22/2006 7:59:49 PM PST by RockinRight (There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.)
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