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Home Front: WoT
Muslims to prey pray at USAir counter at Reagan National
2006-11-25
On Monday, November 27th, 8:15 AM, at the US Airways ticket counter located in the Reagan National Airport, Imam Omar Shahin, one of the six Imams removed from US Airways flight 300, will join Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the MAS Freedom Foundation, Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center of Philadelphia, Rev Graylan Hagler of the United Church of Christ, Hillary Shelton, director of the NAACP-Washington National Office, and other interfaith members for a press statement, public prayer, and flight departure on US Airways.

The "pray-in" is in response to US Airways' removal of Imam Omar Shahin and five other Imams traveling from a terror supporting religious leader's conference in Minnesota. Three of the Imams were observed praying prior to departure. Subsequent to boarding the plane, the six were removed from the flight, handcuffed, and detained in the airport for questioning for over five hours. Upon release, US Airways and other airlines refused to allow them to purchase tickets for other scheduled flights to Phoenix.

"The detention of these religious leaders, and the refusal of the airline to allow them travel, is a gross example of blatant vampirism lycanthropy Unicorns Islamophobia and the violation of the civil rights of Muslim passengers", said Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation. "The last time I checked, public prayer was still protected by the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion and speech unlike any islamic country. It's a shame that as an African-American and a Muslim I have the double whammy of having to worry about driving while Black and flying while Muslim. We charge the airline with not only discrimination, but with an action that is insulting and demeaning to these Muslim religious leaders, and to all people of faith."

The MAS Freedom Foundation, and many in the interfaith and civil rights community, feel strongly that in addition to religious discrimination, the issue involving the six Imams is also a religious freedom issue. We have forwarded the case to several prominent civil and constitutional rights attorneys and legal scholars.

The Freedom Foundation is the public affairs arm of the Muslim American Society (MAS), a national grassroots religious, social, and educational organization. MAS is America's largest grassroots Muslim organization with over 50 chapters nationwide. Learn more.
Posted by:Jackal

#10  
If I remember right, there is gathering room at the RR airport urinals for praying.
Posted by: Skidmark   2006-11-25 22:13  

#9  Maybe they need to be ejected for assembling unappropriately in an area where security issues warrant eliminating such distractions. These assholes need a taste of just how unwelcome they are in any airport.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-11-25 21:32  

#8  If we mock them, will they explode?


Posted by: mojo   2006-11-25 21:29  

#7  One of the Imam's, Omar Shahin, have links to Osama and Hamas.  Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch provides the details here, here, and here.


Posted by: Poison Reverse   2006-11-25 19:59  

#6  
What are they praying for?  Maybe another
"death to America' rant.  Who needs it?
Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550   2006-11-25 19:53  

#5  
God does not require five former prayers a day. If you are picking travel on a day that is the Sabbath,(Shabbot), May as not well at all travel. And if you think you can require travel to accompany your prayer needs, you are mistaken. I, being the immoral being I seem to be to these muslems, can pray withought anyone seeing it - who would have thunk it? Amazing that God does not have to SEE you pray five times a day to get something done. I say US Airways is a Godly airline and God does not need Muslems to show their faith that way after 9-11.
It is all show and pious indignation.
Fear GOD, but obey ME.
Posted by: newc   2006-11-25 19:17  

#4  Rabbi Waskow (who will be joining the Imans) is an old time leftist. he was with the 'peace institutes' during the cold war preaching how we should trust the USSR.He wrote numerous articles for Ramparts magazine and contributed to the 'liberation theology' that lefty clerics use to support bloodthirsty rebels who oppose existing governments.


Posted by: mhw   2006-11-25 18:58  

#3  
As an aside, I was passing through LAX this week and noted 5 muzzies praying in the American Airlines area around concourse 47A. They were doing their thing between the windows and the check-in counter.
allan snackbar! 
Posted by: anymouse   2006-11-25 16:26  

#2  Airport rules are pretty strict about creating any form of disruption in terminals. Even a "pray-in" that disturbs or frightens passengers will be halted immediately.

Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-11-25 15:02  

#1  Oh, heck. I was so busy with Preview on the text itself I forgot to set the topic. Please move to page 2, Fifth Column section.

Thanks.
Posted by: Jackal   2006-11-25 14:35  

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