“It’s flat-out insulting,” he said. “It’s flat-out stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs.”
Yet Islamic jihadis have committed over 35,000 jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11. Should Muslims be entirely exempt from this questioning? Or should only Muslim mayors be presumed to be stalwart patriots and never questioned? I myself have been detained and questioned more than once in airports, as well as when boarding Amtrak trains. Should I have whined about “stereotyping” or accepted it as the reality of the post-9/11 world? The effect of Mohammed Khairullah’s complaining will be that agents will be more wary of questioning Muslims who have traveled overseas; this will make it easier for Islamic jihadis to get into the country. Is that what Mohammed Khairullah wants?
“NJ mayor says he was asked whether he met with terrorists upon return from Turkey,” by Hannan Adely, North Jersey Record, September 13, 2019:
PROSPECT PARK, N.J. – Muslim Americans say they’ve been singled out, detained and interrogated at airports – and elected officials are no exception.
Mohamed Khairullah, the longtime mayor of Prospect Park, said he was held for three hours at JFK International Airport in New York last month, questioned about whether he knew any terrorists and forced to hand over his phone.
“It was definitely a hurtful moment where I’m thinking in my mind that this is not the America that I know,” said Khairullah, a public school administrator. “I am very familiar with our laws and Constitution, and everything that was going on there was a violation.”
Some people have been stopped because their names are on a federal watchlist of “known and suspected terrorists.” Dozens of Americans have sued over the watchlist, saying their names were wrongly added and they had no meaningful way to challenge it. Last week, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that the watchlist is unconstitutional.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson, who declined to be identified, said he could not address any individual case because of the federal Privacy Act but said the agency “treats all international travelers with integrity, respect and professionalism while keeping the highest standards of security.”
‘Stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs’Khairullah, his wife and four children, ages 1, 2, 9 and 10, visited relatives in Turkey who are Syrians displaced by war. They visited a beach, historic sites around Istanbul and a mosque. Khairullah met with mayors of different towns to talk about government and business.
According to Khairullah, CBP officers who were at the gate Aug. 2 when Khairullah exited the plane told him they were doing a random stop. During the screening, he said, they asked him what he studied in college, where he works, his mother’s name, his nicknames and where he traveled.
Khairullah said they asked whether he’d visited any towns with terrorist cells and whether he personally met with any terrorists.
“It’s flat-out insulting,” he said. “It’s flat-out stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs.”
At the agents’ request, he said, he gave them access to his phone, which contained private emails and family photos, among other information. The phone was taken to another room. Khairullah said he called an attorney as he grew increasingly uncomfortable and said he no longer consented to the search of his phone.
Agents told him they’d have to keep the phone, Khairullah said. They held it for 12 days until a lawyer from the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations intervened and helped get it back….
Isntlam says
They’re so touchy.
VRWC member77 says
If he doesn’t like being “stereotyped” then he can change his name and stop being a muslim………..plenty of Arabic Christians out there. One such Arab Christian is Brigitte Gabriel.
Jule Bacal says
They have to be to preserve the smokescreen. Its the way they are TAUGHT from day one, Its the CULTURE. Is it a racist stereotype to say Chines eat with chopsticks? Or Mexico makes tortillas? Or Catholics take communion and celebrate Christmas? Or that conservatives want to keep all guns, not just a self defense gun, but ALL kinds for entertainment/fun whatever including automatics killing hundreds of people at once? Racist? Islam teaches Warlord Culture. Even when we went to visit Saudi, they had us do a War Dance with them. Islam is violent and if not changed must be constantly watched or better just banned because they TEACH it to the kids. It goes on and on. and Politics is a form of Jihad for Islam and we are stupid to allow it just as we would be to make a Nazitype, KKKLan or any Supremacist a President or even Congressperson. Supremacists cannot be part of diversity because they hate diversity. Supremacists are not part of Freedom because they hate freedom/Equality for ‘others’. NO SUPREMACISTS can Practice in USA and all Supremacists have to be under strict watch if here…which they should not be here. It is not racist or Arab or brown or Chinese, Korean….it is BELIEF SYSTEMS they PLEDGE TO which hurt others and demand Supremacy.
arnolddenton says
Maybe if they gave up violence against other religions they would not be profiled as much
gravenimage says
“It’s flat-out stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs”: NJ mayor enraged at being questioned on return from Turkey
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Actually, just about everyone who has been visiting terrorist hot spots is questioned–as they should be. This is not “racial profiling”.
More:
“It was definitely a hurtful moment where I’m thinking in my mind that this is not the America that I know,” said Khairullah, a public school administrator. “I am very familiar with our laws and Constitution, and everything that was going on there was a violation.”
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As if trying to protect America from Jihad terror violates the Constitution.
Mohamed Khairullah knows just enough about our laws to try to use them to destroy us.
This thug also tried to oust a board of education member for opposing Shari’ah law:
“NJ: Muslim mayor demands resignation of Board of Ed member for ‘Islamophobic’ remark”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/06/nj-muslim-mayor-demands-resignation-of-board-of-ed-member-for-islamophobic-remark
Dan Leonard said he would not “apologize or resign”, which is refreshing anti-dhimmitude.
Westman says
What religion stereotypes unbelievers? Says they are worthless? Has a book that says, “kill them wherever you find them..”
No Muslim can legitimately claim stereotyping above their own stereotyping of unbelievers and Jews. Pure hypocrisy.
J D S says
I’m thankful for everyone who stereotypes muslims.I WISH THEY COULD BE PROFILED EVEN ON THE STREETS. We need more protection…
If the so called non militant muslims don’t like this then CHANGE the militancy and POLITICAL in their so called religion.
Our government needs to pass a new law defining just what a religion should be.
Muslims are the only large group of people on earth that are trying to take over the world and have used murder to reach this goal….They are not using a military force so there is no military war, yet there is a WAR so any killed are not in military war and therefore any death attributed to this GROUP is out and out MURDER.
J D S says
One added thing…..keep on electing Muslims to offices…..if one really wants to see islam at work…UNBELIEVABLE! that things have gone this far.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Westman and J D S.
nicu says
do THEY make any difference when they kill or rape ? NO – every Non – Muslim is a target ! They are always so quick insulted – pathetic ! everything insults them – while they commit horrible crimes !
somehistory says
well, if the shoe fits….
Why didn’t he and his family just stay in turkey? Law enforcement is allowed to stop people and ask questions. A person has the “right to remain silent” but they do not have the right to not be questioned.
If he is so knowledgeable about the Law, he would know that he could be subject to being questioned when he arrived back in the country. Because of his bros and their cult of terrorism, it is now standard practice to pull suspicious people aside for a conversation, and when that one has visited one of those countries known for terror. If he knows the law and the Constitution, he should know “elected officials are no exception’ when it comes to obeying the law and being subject to being stopped and questioned.
He should blame his belief that tells his bros to commit terror acts.
Such a whiny creep..”it was definitely a hurtful moment where I’m thinking in my mind.” Well, there’s your problem right there….attempting to “think.”
And there is the usual “suspects”…cair, the un…but should be…indicted. they will want him to sue.
somehistory says
there “are the usual suspects.’
Daniel Harper says
While he was whining about being questioned, they should have made him disrobe! He was right about one thing, “this is not the America I know”, well Sir, it is now and it’s because of ilk like you. I would never trust you for one second.
Daniel Harper says
It works the same as when a policeman stops you for a traffic violation. Do as asked and there is no problem. They (border patrol)have a job to do and questioning you is part of it.
somehistory says
moslims will sometimes have a non moslim attorney, usually when they have been charged with serious crimes of terror, murder, etc.
However, when they have not been arrested, but have been questioned and they call it “unconstitutional,” they always call cair.
cair has a bunch of creepy attorneys and they rush right in and begin with the phobia defense because they know that no crime has been committed on the part of the police and they don’t wish the crimes of the moslim client to be discovered.
moslim gets in trouble with the law and calls attorneys who belong to the group of un-indicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land foundation trial regarding funding the hamas terror group.
One criminal calling his criminal buddies to get him off…and maybe sue the government.
Christopher Kelley says
The hon. Mayor seems to have a very “cozy relation” with CAIR.
CAIR, of course, is an “unindicted co-conspirator” with the Blind Sheik in the First attack on the WTC, just across the river from NJ…
An “unidicted co-conspirator” means there was Enough Evidence to indict, but for some reason, the prosecutor didn’t move on that evidence at the time … perhaps stratigically to focus efforts on “the bigger swine” at the time…
So the Mayor is in cahoots with these “con-artist-conspirators.” (CAIR) How many of his citizens are aware of this???
It is well past time to revive the evidence, & bring it back to court. CAIR needs to be prosecuted, at long last, in a court where the evidence will be weighed properly, so that conviction may follow.
winoceros says
They should have questioned them about having their daughters genitally mutilated while over there. That’s what these “family vacations” are all about. See it all the time. Pray hard they are thwarted by some miracle.
somehistory says
Probably you are correct. Sons of demons, they are.
Keys says
I doubt that the day will ever come when an infidel can trust a muslim.
Michael Pemberton says
I always trust my enemies to do the best that they can to deprive me of my possessions and my life. In that regard they are very dependable. President Warren G. Harding had a similar perspective. “I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. It’s my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floor at night.” In our highly political society, that would be our “loyal opposition”; liberals, progressives, Democrats, socialists, Democratic Socialists, Communists and everyone not more interested in doing what is right for our nation and society than obtaining money and power.
It seems that almost all politicians and political parties have forgotten their oath to maintain our democratic republic and the terms of our Constitution. Our government is founded upon principles that guarantee individual liberty; not special interests, not a special class, and not a special demographic. America was founded upon capitalism and rugged individualism. To change that entails radically changing our form of government for a totalitarian regime and centralized planning. This will occur only if we are betrayed by the enemy within; our friends who seek to control every individual under the guise of paternalism. There is no greater danger to our nation than their hypocrisy and their ambition.
Carol Jensen says
Michael P. I agree with everything you have said, however I do believe we are a Constitutional Republic with a Free Market Economy not a Democratic Republic. In a true Democracy, a majority vote can remove freedoms and rights, but in a Constitutional Republic, such as the US, we are guaranteed our freedoms and rights per the Constitution.
gravenimage says
We are both a Constitutional Republic and a Democratic Republic. The idea that a Democratic Republic just means mob rule is mistaken.
mortimer says
If I were him, I would thank the Border guards for doing their jobs efficiently. I would tell them that the way they carried out their job was a credit to their service and to their leaders who trained them.
I would tell the Border guards that I felt safer knowing they were so professional. I would tell them that jihadists are experts at concealing their intentions and that the border guards should be alert and not afraid to investigate if they are concerned about the suspect.
I would thank them for defending the country.
James Lincoln says
True mortimer, but he is just too caught up with being “offended”…
Anjuli Pandavar says
Well said, Mortimer.
rubiconcrest says
He is of course playing the Muslim victim card. Don’t blame boarder security sir blame you co-religionists …. or as others have suggested …. leave the ‘faith’ and for good measure, change your name.
Demsci says
Right! Religion is a choice, not an accident of birth. And if he knows the constitution so well, he should also be know parts of it is in distinct contradiction with parts of. Islam’s most important guiding texts.
Roger Bost says
Well, so? Who on the planet chops off heads? Catholics? No. Protestants? No. Jews? Nope. Muslims? Yep.
Winston Tan says
Sadly, history tells us, they ALL have. If not decapitation, burning at stake.
Angemon says
Some stereotypes exist for a reason – try launching the “stereotype” that Asians are well-endowed and see how far that goes…
winoceros says
Muslims, Mr. Mayor, not Arabs.
Savvy Kafir says
Get used to it, Mohamed! There’ll be a lot more of it coming your way. It’s insane that we haven’t been “stereotyping” and profiling Muslims far more than we have, considering that devout Muslims consider all infidels to be their enemies, and often act upon their divinely-sanctioned hatred.
gravenimage says
+1
Anjuli Pandavar says
+1 *and* there is no telling who is devout and who is not, or exactly when the switch from easy-going to devout takes place. Those who stereotype and profile Muslims long enough eventually begin to recognise the signs. The information that GI provides on this mayor is red light enough, but then going to *Turkey* to see *Syrian relatives*?? I’d be all over this guy *and* every member of his family *and* his wife’s phone *and* each of his children’s toys and that would just be for starters…
gravenimage says
Agreed and thank you, Anjuli.
Rhonda says
It offends me that we have muzzies n political positions in this country at all! Their ideology is to crush us or kill us if we don’t pay for our life as a convert. No sir you are the problem get the hell out!
Jonny says
Let’s clear something up…Islam/Muslim Is NOT A RACE. It’s an ideology and a way of life masquerading as a religion.
Islam as an ideology is, at its core, incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and the freedoms espoused therein. Women are subservient to men and lower than second class citizens. Gay people are just flat out killed. Honor killings are rampant. Those who don’t believe are either killed or forced to pay a tax just to live.
While the Mayor is within his rights to be upset, he should be taking it with a grain of salt. Had 19 people of his very same ideology NOT killed nearly 3,000 Americans 09/11/01, he would not be profiled. Not to mention, the country of origin is a hot bed for jihadist terrorists. Further, if he’s not a terrorist, he should be greatful the TSA is doing their job keeping America safe.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Mr. Khairullah says, “I am very familiar with our laws and Constitution, and everything that was going on there was a violation.” And yet, “At the agents’ request, he said, he gave them access to his phone, which contained private emails and family photos, among other information.”
In my opinion, it is un-American of Mr. Khairullah not to insist on his Fourth Amendments rights (with which he seems not to be “very familiar” after all), and to docilely give government agents access to his phone. Even CAIR-NY knows that.
Voytek Gagalka says
If he complains about “insulting” and/or “stereotyping” why is he willingly belonging to this gang of tribalists, the Ummah? Drop that and you will never be “insulted” and/or “stereotyped.” Be an INDIVIDUALIST!
Veracious_one says
just who did he meet while in Turkey? and what was discussed?
WPM says
He is visiting a terrorist supporting state Turkey that is currently threating to release millions of unvetted refugees in to west what makes him feel his feelings are more important then the nation security of the people he is elected to represent Moslems and non-Moslems from a town in northern New Jersey? If he was a German American visiting Berlin in 1940 returning after a meeting with government officials there he would also have been questioned ?He meet with government officials(mayors and others in Turkey) and talk about official business while on his trip did he check with the American federal government that he could meet and represent the United States policy as a elected Mayor of a small town in Northern New Jersey to discuss the policy of refugees or any other foreign policy of the federal government??
tgusa says
I have been pulled over and swabbed for explosive content while traveling with computer parts in my backpack. This was done in a US airport as I was traveling to another US airport. I mentioned to the guy doing the swabbing that the “help” in the airport looked much more like al queda than I ever could. I don’t think he liked that but he had no reply.
tgusa says
Pre 9-11 I would and did, just walk on through, unmolested.
Who or what caused the change. Who did that, I want answers.
Drew says
Some people did something.
tgusa says
Yes they did. After years of good behavior some people did something and just like that I became a potential mass murdering mad bomber. That seems like my queue to be offended.
Battle says
May I repeat If memory correct? Was it Lydia Church?
“Poor dears.”
If memory incorrect sorry Lydia.
Keys says
LOL.
We need to put those dears in the headlights !
That’s what Jihad Watch does consistently and truthfully !
ShirleyAnn says
Mohamed was quick to rely on the Services of CAIR, which Always seems to act as a Mediator between Muslim Criminals, including Terrorists & The Forces of American Law!
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“Khairullah, his wife and four children, ages 1, 2, 9 and 10, visited relatives in Turkey who are Syrians displaced by war. They visited a beach, historic sites around Istanbul and a mosque. Khairullah met with mayors of different towns to talk about government and business”
Query: did he charge his trip to the city because he met with “mayors of different towns to talk about government and business”? Did he charge the city for the fares of his wife and four children? Taxpayers should find out.
somehistory says
Excellent questions. Inquiring minds want to know.
winoceros says
Probably drumming up Gulan money for a giant mosque in his town
livingengine says
some interesting pictures of Khairulla in the presence of jihad sympathizers.
https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2015/05/28/exposed-us-khairulla-1/?fbclid=IwAR2RxYVCeRiHOmkNzpplZAqdT9-Fftv-3RolT0esQ-aTzvoKildLTrnWshs
somehistory says
Thanks for the link. It is interesting.
gravenimage says
Thank you, livingengine.
ilco mihajlovski says
I learned enough about Quran Muslims and Arabs on 9/11 2001 Kosovo 1998 ,Macedonia 2001. Тhat is all to it.
MINAS says
Poor guy, lets give him a million bucks for his trouble.
Koosemo says
Some people got searched or somthing
Anjuli Pandavar says
🙂
Keys says
That’s right.
His search would never have happened had it not been for his people murdering innocents on September 11, 2001 ! His people, his brothers did something evil !
Frank De Munter says
It’s just a major inferiority complex. Being a muslim, how could it be something else?
AP says
Mayor is just another cry baby trying to get the left on his side. Mr Jihad needs to be thrown out of office. Turkey is not someone we can trust.
Attorney at Law says
He should be happy to answer questions or not be ‘offended’ at being stopped; IF he has nothing to hide.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer says he gets stopped in airports all the time. He doesn’t act like this.
E T says
A Public school administrator gets CAIR to help him, really!
John says
Right away the Muslims refer to the Constitution, which Is a document that is contrary to the teachings of Islam. And they know that. This is just another power play by hateful people. They are saying they have rights but do not respect the rights of non-Muslims in any way…not even the right to life. “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” No sane knowledgeable person would conclude otherwise. Muslims do not belong here, they honestly do not deserve to live here, by any standard. They see mote in our eye but not the log in theirs. All liars go to hell.
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims are happy to try to use our laws against us.
John says
Once again Muslims blame everybody else for the problems they are causing to happen to themselves and many others.
Debi Brand says
“ ‘It’s flat-out insulting,’ he said. ‘It’s flat-out stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs.’ ”
Yes, indeed it is, Mu’min, Mohamed Khairullah …
For anyone to think –worse yet, to even be so bigoted as to actually conclude – that, just because someone affirms he/she is a proud Muslim, a “Believer,” perhaps even a proud Arab Muslim; so unfair — for anyone — to thus think or conclude, just because of such affirmations that one is, as stated, a Muslim, a true mu’min.
So unjust…. So unfair… — to say little, if anything at all about how illogical such is…
“’ this is not the America that I know,’ said Khairullah.”
It is certainly not, Khaiullah, it is certainly not – typically, “America” pretends for one to claim he/she is Muslim means nothing more than one affirming their proud heritage (“traditions” they hold dear, cherish, and practice…), it means absolutely nothing more than that. Absolutely nothing.
http://www.debibrand.org/chapter-one-of-khalid-masood-no-muslim-mere-muslim-or-one-among-those-who-believe/
Spiro says
This guy is a mayor in New Jersey that tells me something about New Jersey and it’s not good
If he so worried about stereotyping then get his fellow Muslims to give up terrorism ,fat chance
He should go back to the middle east where he is welcome and fits in but of course he wants to convert us
He’s under no moral requirement to tell the kifar the truth about anything
I think I spelled kifar correctly
James C Schuetz says
How this guy is even a mayor of an American city should be a red flag! Islam is waging a world wide war….and it would appear that they have figured out that migration and not war is far easier and more effective. Scary and sad. I wonder if or when the uprising begins?
toomanyhobbies says
So it’s OK for the rest of US citizens to be just short of strip searched by TSA but not you? Question is; WHAT WERE YOU HIDING???
SamB says
Being stopped is annoying I must agree. However, we are not living in a normal world anymore. Certainly America is often singled out for terrorist attacks. Recently, Americans commemorated its biggest terrorist attack, obviously it will not be forgotten. In addition, many Muslims celebrated the destruction caused by various blasts or acts. It also noted that some Muslims rejected such insinuations. They always do. Other people also commit terroristic acts but it is the Muslims with countless terroristic formations that are in your face movements or groupings that is a concern. The bottom line is Muslims will always be suspects unless their religion grows up, unless the mayor grow up, unless they fit seamlessly into the communities they wish to be in…This is never going to happen because they don’t respect the Western legal system and way of life
E T or poor me says
I bought deck screws one day and threw the little bag in my purse, months later when I tried to board a plane for Vancouver, I was pulled out of line, A few of the screws worked their way into the lining of my purse. After an hour of explaining I was allowed on the plane. I have always thought it was the beeping noise that kept going off when they moved my purse with the deck screws in the lining—but maybe they just picked on me because I have red hair—yeah that was probably why they detained me. I want money, I will settle for 10 million—poor me.