Muslims on a Plane #4

Come to find out the imams were not terrorist at all. It is understandable that in today’s reality of high-risk threats emanating from the potential actions of a few faceless terrorists, it’s always better to be safe than sorry. But the fact of the matter is that there was no legitimate justification to even believe that these imams might have been terrorist. The most plausible explanation for their detention is plain and simple: They were victims of Islamophobia.

Jason Shepard OPINION EDITOR, THE Vanuard ( Uni. South Alabama)

Ultimately, the most despicable aspect about the imams’ behavior is that when they pierced the normally quiet hum of a passenger waiting area with shouts of “Allahu Akbar”and deliberately engaged in terrorist-associated behavior that was sure to trigger suspicion, they exploited the fear that began with the Sept. 11 attacks. The imams, experienced travelers all, counted on the security system established after 9/11 to kick in, and now they plan not only to benefit financially from the proper operation of that system but to substantially weaken it—with help from the Saudi-endowed attorneys at CAIR.


DEBRA BURLINGAME,Ms. Burlingame, a director of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, and sister to the pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which was crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.



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