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December 13, 2006

Flying While Muslim Or Flying While Stupid ?

... As we learn that American Muslims making a religious pilgrimage to Mecca are being encouraged to file civil rights complaints if they feel discriminated against by airlines, let's not forget the six praying imams that CAIR used to kick this campaign off.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), citing what it called the "airport profiling" of six imams removed from a recent flight, yesterday said Muslims traveling this month to the holy site in Saudi Arabia need to be aware of their rights.

"Given the increase in the number of complaints CAIR has received alleging airport profiling of American Muslims, we believe it is important that all those taking part in this year's hajj be aware of their legal and civil rights," said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR spokesman. (Editor's note - we are talking about THIS Ibraham Cooper).

The group has established a toll-free hot line (800/784-7526) for victims of "flying while Muslim," as Muslims have begun departing for the weeklong hajj, a once-in-a-lifetime obligation to visit the holy city of Mecca, which this year begins Dec. 29.

However, not all Muslims are in agreement with CAIR's agenda:

M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Phoenix physician and chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), said the announcement by CAIR "continues the tired stoking of the flames of victimization."

"They are unfortunately exploiting, for purely political reasons, what should be a sacred and purely spiritual story of our faith's annual holy pilgrimage to Mecca," Dr. Jasser said.

"We need new leadership and organizations which use their passions and the bandwidth of the media to lead the ideological fight against radical and political Islam rather than this tired pre-emption of supposed discrimination."

As we noted in one of our numerous previous posts on the topic of the so-called "praying loudly imams," you need to know the whole story, read the police report and eyewitness reports (at the end of the report) from the incident, and be sure to read "Marching To The CAIR Agenda: From 'Praying Imams' To Muslims Having Their Own 'Prayer Room' At Airports" to find out about the real agenda of groups like CAIR and the six imams. Your conclusion can only be that the praying imams are up to a hell of a lot more than praying (a lawsuit being only a small part of their agenda to weaken security and obtain special treatment for Muslims that only fundamentalists seek)!

So, is this a case of discrimination - a "flying while Muslim" syndrome, or more like a case of "Flying while stupid" in order to carry out a CAIR agenda? Watch this video and you'll see that it's more a case of flying while stupid - the intentional breaking of airport security rules and common sense (this and previous credit to Java Report):