Difference between a moderate and a radical Muslim?
Used to be years, now it's weeks.
Posted on 11/25/2006 1:30:41 PM PST by XR7
Six Seattle-area Muslims gathered in prayer Friday in front of a US Airways ticket counter at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to protest the removal of six imams from a flight in Minneapolis earlier this week.
The prayer lasted eight minutes without incident.
"We are asserting the right of Muslims to be free of fear, free of apprehension, to take an equal seat at the table," said Jafar Siddiqui, a member of American Muslims of Puget Sound.
Afterward, airport patron Frank Meyers, of San Jose, Calif., accused airport terminal managers of being "politically correct" by allowing the prayer service to block a public elevator.
"We're in a war, sir," he told an airport terminal manager. "We're in a war against terrorism. Do you have any concept of that?"
The imams were removed from the flight to Phoenix on Monday night after three of them said their usual evening prayers in the terminal in Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport before boarding, said Omar Shahin, president of the North American Imams Federation, who was one of the passengers removed.
According to a police report, a US Airways manager said three of the men had one-way tickets and none checked baggage...
A national Muslim group has planned a much larger pray-in for Monday morning at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C.
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How many Churches in Mecca? In Medina? What happens to Christians in Saudi Arabia if they are obvious about their faith while saving the sorry Saudi behind? When, Jafar, will you work for equal rights for Christians and Jews in Teheran and Riyadh? When you do, THEN I'll listen. Until then STFU.
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Let's all chip in and send them some fried chitlins and pork rinds....
A related story.
Best of the Web Today - November 24, 2006
By JAMES TARANTO
Why We Hate Identity Politics
Our item Wednesday about an incident in which airline passengers were alarmed by a group of imams praying in Arabic brought this interesting comment from reader Dennis Gibb:
Recently, my wife and I were on a trip to Europe and we changed planes at Kennedy Airport. When we reported for our overseas flight, we found that we were accompanied by a large number of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are a familiar sight in New York with their beards, long sideburns, black clothing and hats.
As we sat waiting for the flight, the rabbi with the Jewish men announced that they were all going to perform their normal sundown prayer early because they did not want to frighten anyone on the plane with what might, to the uninformed, have sounded like an Arabic prayer.
It is so PC that these supposed Islamic scholars have so little sensitivity to what is happening in the world that they would insist on imposing actual Arabic prayers on an airplane filled with people uniformed as to the reason or the nature of the activity?
This is an excellent point. Look at the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Web site, and you'll be hard-pressed to find any indication that CAIR cares about the feelings of Americans who, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, have perfectly understandable apprehensions about being on a plane with Arab men chanting "Allah, Allah."
We're not arguing that the passengers were in the right, only that if they overreacted, their overreaction was understandable in light of recent history. By demanding sensitivity while refusing to offer any in return, CAIR is behaving boorishly, abusing the good nature of the American character.
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Next time I fly, I plan to sing hymns in the terminal if I see any muslims praying. Onward Christian Soldiers springs to mind for the first hymn.
Meyers in '08
It's only going to get worse. They are going to try and bog us down in the legal system - just like the freakin' liberals do. Good suggestion - C-130 + 10,000 feet - parachute + exit clamshells at "X" mph. Gravity check!
Why are they not organizing protests against terrorism?
Why not against the killing of their fellow Muslims by each other in Iraq?
I really don't understand these people.
If an airline company would have the courage to call themselves "Flying Pigs Airlines" and advertise they serve pork rinds to passengers, they'd make billions every month.
I'd buy stock in their company. (Check out my tagline.)
Oh, great. In our own backyard.
The glaring weakness is American political correctness.
We are in denial: we reject common sense, and we refuse to learn from our past mistakes.
What good is being politically correct (and thus "having the moral high ground") if the price is dhimmitude and/or death?
If I wait in my car for three whole minutes picking someone up at Reagan National Airport, there's a cop there telling me to move, no questions asked. If they let this group disrupt the concourse at Reagan, I'm gonna be mighty upset.
CAIR succeeeded earlier this year in getting a local talk radio station (the station that carries Rush, Sean and Mark)to terminate a really good and popular host for offending Muslims.
They are using American freedoms against us, freedoms none would have in the Muslim world. And the "powers that be" here are allowing it.
What? Only six Muslims protested? I just can't believe that only 6 of them protested in a city that ranks 19th in the nation for total Muslim population. With a Muslim population of over 25,000, you would think that more would have joined in the protest. I can't wait to see how many of the estimated two million Muslims in the US show up for this major protest in Washington DC.
I hope some Freepers can hit Reagan National with a counter-pray in.
And yes,Onward Christian Soldiers sounds like a good theme.
Social libertines run about crying about individuals losing rights; wiretaps, etc.
The problem is that they point the finger at the wrong people.
The people to blame are those creating the conditions requiring certain measures......and the finger points at subversive Islamic elements within our walls.....and people continue to ignore this simple, yet important fact.
As a whole concept PC is not going to get us killed. It may annoy the hell out of us because it throws common sense out the window on a myriad of subjects
The multicultural aspect of PC is going to be the death of us.
That's the virulent strain of PC that will kill us slowly
Bullseye.
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