My latest in PJ Media:
Dallas-based imam Omar Suleiman, a professor at Southern Methodist University, said Thursday that “airports are a scary place for Muslims. Especially with the rhetoric of the president.” Apparently it is Donald Trump’s fault that a couple of Muslims were taken off an airplane for behaving suspiciously.
But speaking of scary air travel, imagine how scary air travel was for the passengers on American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77, and United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001. Imagine how scary air travel was for the passengers on the American Airlines flight that was sabotaged just last week by a Muslim mechanic who spoke about wanting to harm non-Muslims.
But never mind all that. What prompted Suleiman’s fearful remark was a recent incident on an American Airlines flight: the Dallas Morning News reported that “two Dallas-area Muslim men say their American Airlines flight was canceled because the crew ‘didn’t feel comfortable’ after they waved to one another boarding a flight from Birmingham, Ala., to DFW International Airport.”
They waved at one another, and were thrown off a flight! Oh, the Islamophobia! The racism!
And it only gets worse: “When they got off, they said they were trailed by law enforcement officers, interviewed by an FBI agent and had their bags searched again by TSA during their trip Saturday.”
The two Muslims, Abderraoof Alkhawaldeh, whom the Dallas Morning News describes as “a Muslim motivational speaker,” and “Dallas nonprofit leader” Issam Abdallah, charged racial profiling and spoke to the media at the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Alkhawaldeh and Abdallah “said they want to talk with the airline’s leaders about their treatment and what they say is an increasing number of cases of discrimination against Arabs and Muslims.”
Abdallah was distraught: “It was the most humiliating day of my life.” Alkhawaldeh raged: “This is absurd, unacceptable and un-American.”
There is much more. Read the rest here.