Quote from Rearden Metal:
Does anyone else get the feeling those six shahids <b>wanted</b> to be ejected from the flight? That they deliberately planned this whole episode in advance, and were given the exact treatment they wanted to get?
A Profiling In Courage
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 11/22/2006
....Within hours, the men enlisted a Muslim-rights group to make a stink in the press, insisting they were merely imams returning home from an Islamic conference in Minneapolis.
All six claim to be Americans, so clearly they were aware of heightened security.....
Yet they chose to make a spectacle. Why? Turns out among those attending their conference was Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who will be the first Muslim sworn into Congress (with his hand on the Quran). Two days earlier, Ellison, an African-American convert who wants to criminalize Muslim profiling, spoke at a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim-rights group that wasted no time condemning US Airways for "prejudice and ignorance."
CAIR wants congressional hearings to investigate other incidents of "flying while Muslim." Incoming Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., has already drafted a resolution, borrowing from CAIR rhetoric, that gives Muslims special civil-rights protections.
it wouldn't be the first time Muslim passengers have tried to prove "Islamophobia" â or test nerves and security.
...Then there's the case of Muhammed al-Qudhaieen and Hamdan al-Shalawi, two Arizona college students removed from an America West flight after twice trying to open the cockpit. The FBI suspected it was a dry run for the 9/11 hijackings, according to the 9/11 Commission Report. One of the students had traveled to Afghanistan. Another became a material witness in the 9/11 investigation.
Even so, the pair filed racial-profiling suits against America West, now part of US Airways. Defending them was none other than the leader of the six imams kicked off the US Airways flight this week.
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=249091839930090