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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Please Return Your Imams to Their Full and Upright Positions

Love her or hate her, nobody pokes the tender underbelly the way Ann Coulter does! (Thanks 7lb. Dave):


COULTER GETS RESULTS!
> November 29, 2006

> The six imams removed from a US Airways flight last week have apparently
> adopted my suggestion that if they really want to protest the airline,
> instead of boycotting US Airways, they should start flying it frequently.
>
> The spokesman for the imams — or as I believe it's phrased in their
> culture, "designated liar" — Omar Shahin, staged a protest at Reagan
> Washington National Airport on Monday, after which, according to The
> Associated Press, "he and other religious leaders boarded a US Airways
> flight to demonstrate their determination to continue praying and flying."
>
> The original six imams removed from the flight last week first attracted
> attention when they said prayers to Allah on traditional Muslim prayer
rugs
> in the boarding area. After boarding, they changed seats, spreading
> themselves throughout the plane. They were also overheard spouting
> anti-American rhetoric. Witnesses said the six men appeared to be either
> Islamic fanatics or U.S. Army chaplains on leave from Guantanamo.
>
> Following the lead of FEMA in keeping Americans safe, the Homeland
Security
> Department's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is investigating
> the removal of the imams from the US Airways flight. (Talk about
> coincidences — I'm currently investigating the removal of the Office for
> Civil Rights and Civil Liberties from the Department of Homeland
Security!)
>
>
> Imam spokesman Shahin is a great example of why airport security ought to
> be profiling Arabs. Shahin's predecessor at the Islamic Center in Tucson
> was Osama bin Laden's financier and head of logistics — until he was
> arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2002.
>
> Instead of aggressively distinguishing himself from his terrorist
> predecessor, judging by news reports, Shahin spent the five years after
> 9/11 denying that Muslims were behind the attacks and complaining of phony
> anti-Islamic "hate crimes" — as opposed to the pro-Islamic hate crimes he
> presumably endorses.
>
> In 2003, for example, Shahin alleged that a woman in Arizona had thrown
> shoes at children at the mosque.
>
> This is the most transparent hoax I've heard since, "If I did it, here's
> how I would have done it." This is like the joke about a speaker at an
> American communist rally opening with: "Workers and peasants of Brooklyn!"
> Shahin has so little insight into this country, he can't even invent a
> believable hate crime.
>
> It's Arabs who have a thing about shoes being a sign of disrespect, not
> Americans. When Iraqis toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein, the crowd
> immediately pelted it with shoes. Saddam installed a mosaic of the first
> president Bush's face on the ground floor of his palace so that visitors
> would be forced to disrespect Bush by walking on his visage in their
shoes.
>
>
> Shahin himself couldn't get away from this pan-Arabic shoe fetish, adding:
> "The incidents of Muslims being attacked kind of shocked me in my shoes."
> Note to imams trying to fabricate hate crimes against Muslims: Americans
> don't share your shoe neurosis.
>
> At Reagan National this week, Rabbis joined the Muslims at the prayer
> protest — though one imagines they did not share this prayer from the
> Hadith: "And the Jews will hide behind the rock and tree, and the rock and
> tree will say: 'O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me,
> come and kill him!'" In fairness, they usually save that one for the high
> holidays, like the "Festival of the Six Dead Jews" or "Honor Killing
Week."
>
>
> Nor this one, also from the Hadith: "The Prophet said: 'The Hour will not
> take place until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Muslims kill them.
The
> Muslims will kill the Jews. Rejoice! Rejoice in Allah's victory!'" (Is it
> just me, or might some fanatic twist those words into an excuse to kill
> Jews?)
>
> Also strange was that the NAACP has piped in to complain about racial
> profiling of Muslims. The only reason Americans feel guilty about "racial
> profiling" against blacks is because of the history of discrimination
> against blacks in this country.
>
> What did we do to the Arabs? I believe Americans are the victims in that
> relationship. After the attacks of 9/11, profiling Muslims is more like
> profiling the Klan.

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