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2006-09-10 Fifth Column

Mohamed Ghanem of Hamtramck arrested at DTW airport for knife possession

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-09-10 02:36|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What book was it? The Koran? Maybe Allan put the knife in it.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-09-10 09:06|| 2006-09-10 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Lock him up. 10 years hard time. Then pull any citizenship or green card and ship him and his family out

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-10 09:43|| 2006-09-10 09:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Ya know, I poo-poo'd a report over at JunkyardBlog that imams are encouraging this kind of thing because the source has a hinky history. But it keeps happening, and, frankly, appears to happen most frequently with Muslims.

"Explosive residues" that we're told is just perfume residues -- yet millions of people wearing millions of fragrances make it through airports every day. An "unbalanced woman" rants, raves, makes threats, and acts nuts on an airplane -- and it turns out she's probably a convert with a Pakistani lover. Then there were the fellows on the British plane in Spain.

Now this.

Anyone wanna net that Muslims are being encouraged to "test security"? That it's being touted as being part of jihad, of "striking terror into the hearts of the enemies of Islam"?

Call me Islamophobic, or a bigot, whatever you want. The supposed moderates have spent decades accepting, cheering, and fundint terrorism; I think they've made their positions quite clear. There's no effort among Muslims to distance themselves from the jihadis because jihad is part of their faith, too. They approve. They support it.

They're part of the problem, not a source of the solution.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-10 11:33|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-10 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 This bastard needs some aging in Guantanamo. Not too bright if he thinks they can't find anything metallic nowadays.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-10 11:34|| 2006-09-10 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Let me get this straight, his lawer claims he didn't know that his book had been carved out and a knife was inside it?

How stupid do we look to muslims?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-09-10 12:24|| 2006-09-10 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Let me guess... the book was NOT the Satanic Verses by Rushdie. A safe bet eh?

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-10 12:31|| 2006-09-10 12:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Let me get this straight, his lawer claims he didn't know that his book had been carved out and a knife was inside it?

How many books do you know would not feel different in such a condition? Wouldn't the knife rattle? Wouldn't the cut-out pages be weaker?

A second's thought makes the lawyer's statement ludicrous. He should loose his law license for making such an idiotic statement.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-10 13:42|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-10 13:42|| Front Page Top

#8 It's such a stupid thing to even try to do that I wonder if perhaps Mohammed is actually telling the truth; perhaps he was being used to test security. Or perhaps he was being set up by some redneck as a joke.
Then again, given his apparant religion, maybe he really is that stupid.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-09-10 13:42|| 2006-09-10 13:42|| Front Page Top

#9 being set up by some redneck as a joke

BigJim you are busted! LOL!!!

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-09-10 17:35|| 2006-09-10 17:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Simple common sense - an illiterate and a book? He should rather carry a roll of toilet paper...

Posted by Matt K. 2006-09-10 17:38|| 2006-09-10 17:38|| Front Page Top

#11 "He said he didn't know where the knife came from,"

Fine. Let's go on with that explanation, for the nonce. Anyone who accepts any sort of "gift" from someone to take aboard a plane flight without thoroughly examining it beforehand is worse than stupid. In these days of airline bombings, they may as well be suicidal.

Continuing along with this Muslim's putative reasoning, then who gave the hollowed out book to him? His Imam? A fellow Muslim? Perhaps either one of which were big fans of violent jihad? Same thing applies. You are way beyond stupid to not closely scrutinize whatever you've been given before accepting anything from some jihadist acquaintance or friend to then carry aboard a plane flight

This person has zero excuse. What's worse is that his story doesn't hold even a single molecule of water. Convict him of intentionally concealing a deadly weapon for transport aboard an aircraft. Add on terrorism charges if he comes from a Wahabbist mosque.

Lock him up. 10 years hard time. Then pull any citizenship or green card and ship him and his family out.

What Frank said.

Call me Islamophobic, or a bigot, whatever you want. The supposed moderates have spent decades accepting, cheering, and fundint terrorism; I think they've made their positions quite clear. There's no effort among Muslims to distance themselves from the jihadis because jihad is part of their faith, too. They approve. They support it.

Word, RC.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-10 17:46|| 2006-09-10 17:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Call me Islamophobic, or a bigot

Both commonly used labels attached to truth tellers by the left.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-10 17:51|| 2006-09-10 17:51|| Front Page Top

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