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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: SandRat

http://www.beecy.net/frank/

Absolutely hilarious.


181 posted on 11/23/2006 12:18:05 AM PST by quesney
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To: John Lenin

Do not be sorry. We are the only people to take the WOT seriously.


182 posted on 11/23/2006 12:28:22 AM PST by Brimack34 (I hate the MSM They Hate America)
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To: brytlea
Better to see photos not taken by the MS< or other "professionals."

Senior high school days

Senior college days

183 posted on 11/23/2006 1:11:10 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: SandRat

Classic Bookmark


184 posted on 11/23/2006 2:50:37 AM PST by Ben Chad
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To: RonDog

You're on!


185 posted on 11/23/2006 3:33:44 AM PST by jellybean (Proud to be an Ann-droid and a Steyn-aholic)
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To: Bonaparte
http://newsmine.org/archive/9-11/suspects/suspects-in-daytona-beach-strip-club-night-before.txt

Three men spewed anti-American sentiments in a bar and talked of impending bloodshed the night before the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, a Daytona Beach strip club manager interviewed by the FBI said Thursday.

"They were talking about what a bad place America is. They said 'Wait 'til tomorrow. America is going to see bloodshed,"' said John Kap, manager of the Pink Pony and Red Eyed Jack's Sports Bar. Kap said they made the claims to a bartender and a patron.

Federal agents were investigating on several fronts in Florida on Thursday after searching homes and rental car documents and poring over flight school student records across the state.

The Boston Globe reported on its web site Thursday that it had obtained a copy of the complete manifest list of the planes hijacked from Boston.

186 posted on 11/23/2006 4:42:22 AM PST by radar101 (LIBERALS = Hypocrisy and Fantasy)
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To: fish hawk

Should be a new requirement for citizenship....eat a pork sandwich in front of a Judge...


187 posted on 11/23/2006 4:47:17 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Vinny
U.S.Airways.
If you hold their latest advertisement up to the light and turn it upside down and backwards, it is in HEBREW. The language of slaves(the Mummy)and JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!
The message reads: "Thank you for flying El Al West the prefered airline of Joooooooooos and Zionist Occupier Running Dogs.
Woof,Woof!
We hate Imams and Have a nice day" :-)
188 posted on 11/23/2006 4:59:18 AM PST by Gideon Reader ("The quiet gentleman sitting in the corner sipping Kenya AA and enjoying his Stan Getz CD's".)
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To: RockinRight
It's too bad, but Northwest was up too ($.88/share).

The whole industry was up yesterday--maybe because of the possibility (we can dream, can't we?) that Muslims will boycott ALL US airlines. It would be the best thing that could happen to the airline industry!!

189 posted on 11/23/2006 6:05:28 AM PST by stockstrader ("Where government advances--and it advances relentlessly--freedom is imperiled"-Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: fish hawk
Oh you need to add one more step...

Have each boarding passenger take a bite of ham prior to entering the the plane.

190 posted on 11/23/2006 6:13:33 AM PST by antivenom (If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much damn space!)
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To: Gaffer

THAT would exclude a bunch of Jewish folks who have been shown to be remarkably good for this nation.


191 posted on 11/23/2006 6:51:06 AM PST by Gideon Reader ("The quiet gentleman sitting in the corner sipping Kenya AA and enjoying his Stan Getz CD's".)
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To: mylife
She's one hot lady.

..I just love it when she talks dirty.

192 posted on 11/23/2006 8:06:02 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Fake but Accurate": NY Times)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan

She's provacative! L0L


193 posted on 11/23/2006 8:29:21 AM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: All

maybe we can give them their own airline . . . . das swinehund airline . . lots of old planes with very little fuel.


194 posted on 11/23/2006 8:45:14 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (proud sponsor of the "helmets for democrats" foundation)
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To: bill1952

where did you get these?


195 posted on 11/23/2006 8:46:40 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (proud sponsor of the "helmets for democrats" foundation)
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050425/gallery/1.html


196 posted on 11/23/2006 9:50:29 AM PST by RonDog
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To: bill1952

She was a cute kid, but looked a little rounder. :)
susie


197 posted on 11/23/2006 10:06:29 AM PST by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: Vinny

Thank-you US Airways for common sense!


198 posted on 11/23/2006 6:54:08 PM PST by Biggirl (A biggirl with a big heart for God's animal creation.)
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To: TopDog2
... We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind...[from US Air statement]

If you think about it this statement, it is simply idiotic in the extreme. Certainly we as a people are against the sort of racism prevalent in Muslim populations. But if we dare point out or react to the obvious and dangerous attributes of Muslim culture they sure as hell have some nerve to point their fingers at the west.

We are not killing them or forcing them to convert, we are simply trying to protect ourselves, and already worrying far too much about hurting their precious little feelings.

While their Muslim brothers are raping, murdering, and forcing conversions in mass in nations wherever they can get away with it.

199 posted on 11/23/2006 8:55:13 PM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: Lizavetta

gotta love ann


200 posted on 11/23/2006 9:07:31 PM PST by LC HOGHEAD (If we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether)
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