Remember these guys?
The six Imams who boarded US Airlines Flight 300 and proceeded to behave in an intimidating and suspicious manner. Refusing to sit in their assigned seats, pairing off to sit near the front, middle and rear exits. Requesting unneeded seat belt extenders. Three of the Imams had no baggage and one way tickets, and one passenger who speaks Arabic says the Imams talked about Osama bin Laden and condemned America for killing Saddam Hussein.
The behavior clearly intended to cause an uproar among the passengers and it worked. The Federal Air Marshals delayed the flight and asked the Imams to leave. When the Imams refused they were arrested.
Of course the Imams went on to sue US Airlines and the passengers while CAIR threatened boycotts, and trying to promote a "flying while Muslim" campaign.
But it was all in vain.
The department’s assistant general counsel, Samuel Podberesky, informed the Council on American-Islamic Relations of the department’s conclusion in a Jan. 14 letter.
But the department did fault US Airways for refusing to book the men on another flight after the FBI cleared them.
The letter is among several exhibits entered last week in a lawsuit the imams filed against the airline and the airport in federal court in Minneapolis. The trial is scheduled for August.
Result: Victory for safe air travel, common sense, and courageous "John Does" who refuse to be intimidated.
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Result: Victory for safe air travel, common sense, and courageous "John Does" who refuse to be intimidated.
Ooooooorah!
The church bells tolling in this website's soundtrack augment the sensation of victory!
And let's thank the Arabic speaker for doing the right thing.
The bad news: US airways was faulted for not booking them on another flight! These guys are obvious sh*theads so why should the airline be faulted for not wanting to do business with arrogant troublemakers? The attitude of government toward private property/private business in this country is abominable. Government intervention into the private sector can't be understated as relates to the decline of the USA. While I am personally against bigotry and racism; society and freedom all suffer when the government has ANY say as to who can be hired/fired or rented to by private entities. They should be left to live or die on their own decisions no matter how despicable. Organizations like the EEOC are fascist like and do far more harm than good in the long run to us all.
kevin,
This welcome news!
cjk,
I can't condemn all government intervention in the economy, and although I oppose affirmative action, I wouldn't support getting rid of all anti discrimination laws. Still I agree that punishing the airline for not letting those Islamists on another plane was wrong. They were acting in a manner that gave people reason to think they were a threat. Throwing them off the plane and not letting them ride on another one because of what they did, was not the same as refusing to allow someone on for being black, for example.
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