An American Muslim speaks out against the six imams who are portraying themselves as victims because were excluded from a flight after behavior that alarmed their fellow passengers. Zuhdi Jasser, a Phoenix physician and chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, writes:
The first thing one must understand about this whole hullabaloo with the Muslim imams taken off a Phoenix-bound plane in Minneapolis is that it most definitely was not about the right to prayer or freedom of worship.
And much as the imams and their handlers may try, it is certainly not about victimization. . . . .There is little argument that American airport concourses have become clinics of anxiety-laden travelers who have become vigilant in spotting anything out of the ordinary. This vigilance and anxiety is even more acutely felt by U.S. Transportation Security Administration agents and airline crews. They will never be rewarded for a safe flight. But they will be globally vilified for one lax call that leads to tragedy.
Into this highly charged environment comes this incident of the imams returning from their conference. To ignore the larger context is to virtually live in an airtight bubble.
There's more, including a response to the claim that the imams were religiously compelled to pray at the time and in the manner they did.
Earlier Related Posts:
- So Six Muslim Imams Walk Onto an Airplane . . . and the results are not a joke. The imams start praying up a storm. Which (along with some other behavior) makes their fellow passengers nervous. Which results in the imams being disinvited.
- Back to the Six Imams on the Plane Were the six imams who cried "discrimination!" when they were removed from a US Air flight on November 20th trying to create a reaction in order to weaken airline security? Pajamas Media calls them the "faking imams" and has new details supporting the theory that the imams were up to no good, including a police report and a letter from a passenger.
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