The Flying Imams claim that they were taken off a flight not because they were acting suspiciously, but because they were discriminated against. They tried to sue the passengers who reported them -- which would have ended the reporting of suspicious behavior in airports and airplanes altogether -- and now they're going after an FBI agent who was involved. They're also suing several police officers.
Even if they are completely innocent, abhor terrorism, reject Islamic supremacism, and weren't doing anything but praying on that fateful flight, they should recognize that people will make honest mistakes in trying to prevent terror attacks. But by pursuing this lawsuit, they show that they're unwilling to grant that -- and the result of their suit, whether it is successful or not, will be to make it more difficult to take people off planes even when they are acting suspiciously. The only beneficiaries will be jihad terrorists. And, not coincidentally, their lawyer, Omar Mohammedi, is a CAIR op.
Isn't it funny how CAIR always seems to show up on the opposing side of any and all anti-terror efforts?
"No need to change imam's lawsuit, Metropolitan Airports Commission says: Airport board says FBI agent's role already was disclosed," by David Hanners for the Pioneer Press, October 3 (thanks to Twostellas):
The Metropolitan Airports Commission has told a judge that six Muslim imams who sued after being kicked off a flight almost two years ago shouldn't be allowed to add an FBI agent as a defendant in the case.Lawyers for the imams claimed last week that they should be allowed to amend their suit because the FBI agent's involvement in the incident was "new evidence," but lawyers for the airports commission said that wasn't the case.
"The FBI's specific role was disclosed in the police report and in court filings, well before the deadline to amend passed," the commission argued in a document filed earlier this week.
Attorneys for both sides will argue their positions in a hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul.
The airports commission's co-defendant, US Airways, said in a motion this week it wasn't taking a position on the imams' request to add the FBI agent as a defendant.
The imams were kicked off a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in November 2006 after a passenger passed a note to a flight attendant saying the men had prayed loudly in Arabic and made "anti-U.S." statements.
The pilot of the Phoenix-bound flight had them removed from the plane. But attorneys for the imams are trying to determine who had the men detained, handcuffed and questioned. Five airport police officers also are named as defendants in the case.
The imams claim they were discriminated against because of their religion and because they are Middle Eastern....
Stealth Jihad at its finest.
Can this be a focal point for advertising Robert Spencer's forthcoming book? For example, people could distribute fliers at the courtroom.
(It occurred to me this morning that the publisher might send copies to the Wasilla public library, including some specifically for Ms. Palin's parents and others who might be in a position to pass along the news behind the news.)
People need tools like the book to understand that the flying Imams' legal fuss is not a matter of sensitive individuals defending their rights. The Imams' actions are part of a long-lived ideological movement of violence and childishness.
End Islamic immigration.
That a court can't immediately see that this incident was contrived, that the suit has no merit, is an abuse of the court system,
and should be thrown out, is Islamazing.
Also Islamazing: The US government is complicit in this from the beginning, by telling the people to report suspicious activity, and then allowing them to be sued for doing so.
Not Islamazing is CAIR's involvement up to its lower lip...just another inch...I wonder how long Hooper and comp can hold their collective breaths?
the Flying Imams should have been deported years ago. and their wives, and children, and any relative they got from the old country should be deported too.
In the aftermath of 9/11, the President himself asked everyone in the entire nation to report anything that looked "wrong", to the authorities.
This is exactly what happened in this case, and I don't recall Mr. Bush having rescinded his request.
I guess we're going to have to have the next President put everything in writing, including informal requests to observe our surroundings, and report fishy behaviour to the authorities.
I mean, what--Are we going to have to go back to nailing edicts and proclamations to trees?
The Flying Imams were rightfully grounded, and they should be under prosecution, not US Airways.
OOPS! duh-swami beat me to it! Well, in the dim light of this specious lawsuit, it bears repeating.
I'd like to imagine at least one million people in the US, shaking their heads and looking confused, and saying: "But...but...we were all asked to..."
Unfortunately, there might be a few thousand, and no more, doing this.
The pilot of the Phoenix-bound flight had them removed from the plane.
That should have been the end of the matter, right there.
I WANT the FBI agent added as a defendant. Maybe, just maybe, then the FBI would open its eyes to the islamic threat in general and cair in particular, and not invite the latter to conduct sensitivity training sessions for its agents.
The pilot of the Phoenix-bound flight had them removed from the plane.
That should have been the end of the matter, right there.
Posted by: interestinconundrum
Precisely! It should have ended right then and there. The flying public will rue the day when the authority of the Pilot in Command is stripped away by incidents like this.