American Muslims File Discrimination Suit Against US Airways
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On November 21, 2006, six imams boarded US Airways Flight 300 at Minneapolis after attending a conference of the North American Imam Federation. Witnesses say that they prayed loudly invoking Allah, switched from their assigned seats to a September 11 attack pattern, spoke in Arabic and English, criticized the war in Iraq and President Bush, talked about al Qaeda and bin Laden, and asked for seat-belt extenders. They were arrested and then released.
None of their actions is illegal, nor would any one action cause the pilot to ask for security intervention. When taken together, however, they raised suspicions to a very high level. "That's like shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater. You just can't do that anymore," said Robert MacLean, a former air marshal. "They should have been denied boarding and been investigated. It looks like they are trying to create public sympathy or maybe setting someone up for a lawsuit."
That is precisely what has happened. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has filed a suit against US Airways for racial discrimination and religious intolerance.
It is likely that this whole episode was designed and executed for public attention to be a cause for crying discrimination. But this conspiracy may have even darker motives. Janet Levy of FrontPageMagazine writes (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25694):
".there may be other purposes at work here as well, namely, a campaign to undermine our focus on viable and possibly dangerous groups and populations by dismissing it as nothing more than prejudice, small-mindedness and stereotyping. In this way, our very vigilance as a nation is under attack from a form of 'cultural jihad,' that seeks to use our own values against us."
Such attempts to intimidate us and weaken not only our resistance but our view of ourselves, are commonplace in Europe where both violent and cultural jihad have been successfully waged for many years. We must reject the influence of political correctness and treat this as an affront to our culture.
Ms. Levy also wrote about Omar Shahin, one of the six imams, in FrontPageMagazine:
"In examining the Nov. 21 incident more closely, we find that among those removed, Shahin, heads a particularly intriguing organization. Founded in 1971, the ICT's [Islamic Center of Tucson] $1.5 million mosque was funded largely by the Saudi government through the North American Islamist Trust, a Saudi-backed Wahhabist group that controls a majority of the most radical mosques in North America.
"According to Washington-based terrorist expert Rita Katz, the Islamic Center of Tucson included what was "basically the first cell of Al Qaeda in the United States." The connections between Al Qaeda and the ICT include Wael Hamza Jalaidan, a former ICT president, believed to be an Al Qaeda founder, and Hani Hanjour, who attended the mosque while a student at the University of Arizona and who later flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9/11. Wadih El-Hage, a personal assistant to terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, was active with the ICT in the late 1980's where he is alleged to have established an Al Qaeda support network, according to the FBI. In 2001, El Hage was convicted by a federal judge in New York of planning the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania."
This is part of the Qur'anic struggle to turn Dar al-harb (the world of war, including Europe and America) into Dar al-Islam (the world of Islam). If we allow American Muslims to prey on our tradition of religious tolerance and to make disbelievers feel guilty about not accepting their Medieval cult, then they will be in a stronger position to make demands on our legal system which favor Islam.
It is important that US Airways treats this suit very seriously and does not just settle with CAIR in order to minimize their costs. This is a matter of serious principle. Failure to understand that this is a battle in our war on Islamic Jihad would be very costly to America in the future. These are not just childish religious zealots that we can dismiss. This is war.
Write US Airways and urge them to stand their ground and do not settle. Below is a letter you can send them. Please fax it or email it to:
Liz Landau
Corporate Communications | US Airways
email: elizabeth.landau@usairways.com
Fax for their Executive Offices in Phoenix
480-693-2300
Letter to US Airways
We thank US Airways for taking strong action for our mutual security in the confrontation with the six imams on November 21, 2006. We thank you for protecting us, your customers, the American people while flying on your airline. The simple fact that you were so vigilant and took action when you felt danger, earned you a special loyalty in the American people's hearts. We remind US Airways that the resulting law suit against them is no ordinary suit that may be settled simply to minimize their costs. The out come of this case will be a defining moment in the way, we as Americans respond to terror tactics as a society and as individuals.
We are prepared to support US Airways in the court of public opinion and with our loyal patronage if US Airways takes a strong stand in this encounter with Islamic jihad. We are also prepared to denounce US Airways publicly and to boycott the airline if US Airways caves in to this intimidation, and settles in any way with these Islamic Imams and the terrorist supporting organization CAIR.
It is likely that this whole episode was designed and executed for public atte ntion to be a cause for crying discrimination. But this conspiracy may have even darker motives. Janet Levy of FrontPageMagazine writes (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25694):
".there may be other purposes at work here as well, namely, a campaign to undermine our focus on viable and possibly dangerous groups and populations by dismissing it as nothing more than prejudice, small-mindedness and stereotyping. In this way, our very vigilance as a nation is under attack from a form of 'cultural jihad,' that seeks to use our own val ues against us."
Such attempts to intimidate us and weaken not only our resistance but our view of ourselves, are commonplace in Europe where both violent and cultural jihad have been successfully waged for many years. We must reject the influence of political correctness and treat this as an affront to our culture.
Ms. Levy a lso wrote about Omar Shahin, one of the six imams, in FrontPageMagazine:
"In examining the Nov. 21 incident more closely, we find that among those removed, Shahin, heads a particularly intriguing organization. Founded in 1971, the ICT's [Islamic Center of Tucson] $1.5 million mosque was funded largely by the Saudi government through the North American Islamist Trust, a Saudi-backed Wahhabist group that controls a majority of the most radical mosques in North America.
"According to Washington-based terrorist expert Rita Katz, the Islamic Center of Tucson included what was "basically the first cell of Al Qaeda in the United States." The connections between Al Qaeda and the ICT include Wael Hamza Jalaidan, a former ICT president, believed to be an Al Qaeda founder, and Hani Hanjour, who attended the mosque while a student at the University of Arizona and who later flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon on 9/11. Wadih El-Hage, a personal assistant to terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden, was active with the ICT in the late 1980's where he is alleged to have established an Al Qaeda support network, according to the FBI. In 2001, El Hage was convicted b y a federal judge in New York of planning the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania."
It is important that US Airways treats this suit very seriously and does not just settle with CAIR in order to minimize their costs. This is a matter of serious principle. Failure to understand that this is a battle in our war on Islamic Jihad would be very costly to America in the future. These are not just childish religious zealots that we can dismiss. This is war.
Thank you
(Your name)
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