posted on December 2, 2006 11:37:39 AM new
They are just going to continue making an issue out of what THEY want.....
I now believe that whole airport scene was a 'setup' to gain attention for what they want changed.....again.
Gee..think maybe we should have a prayer room for EACH and EVERY religion at ALL airports across America?
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Muslims Seek Prayer Room at Airport
Dec 01 6:53 PM US/Eastern
By PATRICK CONDON
Associated Press Writer
MINNEAPOLIS
Airport officials said Friday they will consider setting aside a private area for prayer and meditation at the request of imams concerned about the removal of six Muslim clerics from a US Airways flight last week.
Steve Wareham, director of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said other airports have "meditation rooms" used for prayers or by passengers who simply need quiet time.
A group of Somali clerics met with airport officials Friday and said they would attract less attention if they had a private area for prayer.
Devout Muslims pray five times daily, facing the holy city of Mecca.
"When we pray, we don't want a problem. We don't want what happened last week," said Abdulrehman Hersi, an imam at Darul-Quba mosque in Minneapolis, referring to six clerics who were barred from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis after drawing the concern of some passengers.
Airports in Nashville, Tenn.; Columbus, Ohio; and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., all advertise meditation rooms.
Fort Lauderdale's is billed as "For travelers seeking a quiet time." All note they are nonsectarian.
The imams at the airport Friday drew a few stares as they laid down their prayer rugs and knelt on the hard rubber floor at the airport.
The clerics requested a meeting after both the US Airways incident and a recent flap over Muslim cabdrivers who didn't want to pick up passengers carrying alcohol.
"We are users of the airport, too, and we don't want to get into a situation where Muslims feel we are being marginalized at the airport," said Omar Jamal, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul and the meeting's organizer.
Airport officials will accept the group's invitation to visit a mosque, airport spokesman Pat Hogan said.
"I think there's a mutual recognition that it would be helpful for there to be a solid understanding," Hogan said.
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
Ann Coulter
[ edited by Linda_K on Dec 2, 2006 11:44 AM ]
posted on December 2, 2006 11:47:38 AM new
Exclusive: Police Report, Passenger Reveals That Flying Imams Were Up to No Good
PJM in Seattle
December 1, 2006 5:58 PM
The Now Notorious Flying Imams Claim Their Only Crime Was ?Flying While Muslim,?
But Our Exclusive Reporting Reveals They Are Trying to Sweep Their Real Motives Under Their Prayer Rugs
Area Muslims pray near the ticketing area of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Friday, Dec. 1.
SEE ALSO: The first public publication of the official police report on the incident including handwritten statements from witnesses. Download file ? PDF 3.8 Mb
PLUS: The letter from US Airways passenger ?Pauline? to U.S. Airways: Download file PDF 68K
[Bloggers are invited to examine these documents and provide theories for what happened. Please notify Pajamas Media. ? Editors]
By Richard Miniter, PJM Washington Editor
The case of U.S. Airways flight 300 gets stranger by the minute. When six traveling Muslim clerics were asked to deplane last week, it looked like another civil rights controversy against post-9-11 airport security.
Now new information is emerging that suggests it was all a stunt designed to weaken security.
Yesterday I spoke with a passenger on that flight, who asked that she be only identified as ?Pauline.?
A copy of airport police report, which I also obtained, supports Pauline?s account - and includes shocking revelations of its own.
In addition, U.S. Airways spokeswoman Andrea Rader also confirmed much of what Pauline revealed?..
The passenger, who asked that she only be identified as ?Pauline,? said she is afraid to give her full name or hometown. She is spending the night at ?another location? because she does not feel safe at home. She credits reports that one imam is apparently linked to Hamas. ?It is scary because these men could be dangerous.?
Pauline said she never wanted media attention. She wrote an email to U.S. Airways and cc:ed her daughter, who unexpectedly emailed it to her friends.
As the letter took on an internet life of its own, it made its way to the inbox of a retired CNN executive producer. Then, to her dismay, the feeding frenzy began.
Pauline revealed to Pajamas Media that the six imams were doing things far more suspicious than praying - an Arabic-speaking passenger heard them repeatedly invoke ?bin Laden,? and ?terrorism,? a gate attendant told the captain that she did not want to fly with them, and that bomb-sniffing dogs were brought aboard. Other Muslim passengers were left undisturbed and later joined in a round of applause for the U.S. Airways crew. ?It wasn?t that they were Muslim. It was all of the suspicious things they did,? Pauline said.
Here is her story, along with corroborating quotes from the U.S. Airways spokeswoman Andrea Rader and the official report, another Pajamas Media exclusive.
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
Ann Coulter
[ edited by Linda_K on Dec 2, 2006 11:51 AM ]
posted on December 3, 2006 09:39:29 PM new
We shouldn't have Muslim prayer rooms but we should have nativity scenes? I don't know, but don't ask linduh pertinent questions like that...she won't answer.
I'm firmly against both.
But a prayer room with a nativity scene may be the answer! LOL!
posted on December 4, 2006 04:45:21 AM new
Liar_k beast posted these words,
"The imams at the airport Friday drew a few stares as they laid down their prayer rugs and knelt on the hard rubber floor at the airport"
"The clerics requested a meeting after both the US Airways incident and a recent flap over Muslim cabdrivers who didn't want to pick up passengers carrying alcohol."
The beast Liar_k says "Muslim imam\'s Keep Pushing","They are just going to continue making an issue out of what THEY want".
This all reminds me of some American Christians. The pharmacist who wouldn't fill out prescriptions for the morning after pill.
Or how about Christians buying anti abortion bill boards and T.V. advertising "pushing" their believes on others.
Both Muslims and Christians say they are only following God's will. Now only a sick beast like Liar_k makes an issue out of both beliefs.
posted on December 4, 2006 08:09:56 AM new
See, I told you linduh wouldn't address this.....she ran around a corner again so fast she ran into her own butt!
But I'll answer for her....linduh thinks only HER religion gets the freedom....that's HER idea of "freedom of religion"......also called Fascism...
posted on December 4, 2006 08:10:27 AM new
lol classic....
Yep...can just imagine how nice it would have been for the highjackers/terrorists from 9-11 to have had a private room to more comfortably discuss their upcoming plans.
These imams didn't have to choose that time to say their prayers.....imo they did so...along with the other 'scare talk' they were being sure the other passangers heard, to get JUST the reaction they did.
posted on December 4, 2006 08:41:21 AM new
"This all reminds me of some American Christians. The pharmacist who wouldn't fill out prescriptions for the morning after pill.
Or how about Christians buying anti abortion bill boards and T.V. advertising "pushing" their believes on others."
Yeah, and both nut jobs did not create a scene or disrupt other people in their daily business.
posted on December 5, 2006 12:23:46 PM new
It appears that their women are following in the imams footsteps.
Let's file lawsuits...or threaten many companies so they can get their wishes met.
Yep...it's a changing world....and our American companies are being USED.
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Muslim woman cites gym after interrupted prayer
Dearborn resident says her complaint to Fitness USA manager about patron went unheeded.
Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News
DEARBORN -- Fitness USA, a gym chain, is investigating an alleged civil rights violation involving a local Muslim woman who says her afternoon prayer was interrupted by a fellow patron, and that her complaint to management about the situation was rejected.
"The manager told me, 'You have to respect her (the patron), but she does not have to respect your God,'?" said Wardeh Sultan of Dearborn. "I've had my membership for seven or eight years, and I've never had a problem with praying there.
"I told that manager, 'I can't believe you said that'?" Sultan said. "Honestly, I feel humiliated and I feel ashamed, right now, to go back to Fitness USA."
Local representatives of Fitness USA, which operates branches throughout Metro Detroit and in two other states, referred all inquiries regarding the matter to their corporate offices.
"We will, as we will with any complaint involving our staff and a member, be doing a full and thorough investigation of the matter and take any appropriate action we need to take," said Jodi Berry, executive director of Fitness USA.
"We want every member to get a good exercise experience every time they come to the club."
Berry said she learned of the complaint on Monday.
The allegations are among a series of recent complaints by Muslims who say they are free to practice their religion in the United States, until someone tells them they cannot.
Recently, the same Fitness USA facility enacted a new dress code to allow Muslim women to wear more modest clothing, in compliance with some Islamic practices.
Two weeks ago, six Muslim clerics were removed from a U.S. Airways flight after three of them said their evening prayers in the St. Paul-Minneapolis International Airport.
Passengers and employees of the airline said later that their suspicions were aroused when the men were overheard making comments critical of the United States, and because the men had one-way tickets and no baggage.
The airline and the civil rights office of U.S. Department of Homeland Security are investigating that incident.
Imad Hamad, regional director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, which lodged a formal complaint with Fitness USA on behalf of Sultan, said the recent spate of conflicts results from a growing intolerance of Islam and a growing restiveness among Muslims that their rights to speak freely and worship are increasingly at risk.
"They (Muslims) are resenting that they are to be suppressed from expressing themselves freely, like others," Hamad said.
"It's OK for a Christian fellow or a Jewish fellow to pray, and it would be regarded highly and respected. When it comes to a person of Muslim faith, especially if a woman is wearing the head cover or a man with a typical clergy outfit, yeah, it is becoming like something that is offensive to people and making them nervous."
Sultan said that, like all pious Muslims, she prays five times daily. She also wears a veil and a long dress, in observance of her faith. Born in Jordan, of Palestinian descent, Sultan arrived in Detroit 17 years ago, before moving to Dearborn. She is an American citizen.
Sultan said she came to the United States to secure her freedom and to avoid intolerance. "We're here in the great United States and for this happening, it truly breaks my heart," she said. "You know, things are starting to change backwards, instead of frontward. We need to keep this United States, our country, up on our shoulders. We don't want it to go down."
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
Ann Coulter
[ edited by Linda_K on Dec 5, 2006 12:27 PM ]
posted on December 5, 2006 12:31:35 PM new
Then we have morons like cathy cowfarm and bigdopa, let's give the criminals what they want.
These guys committed a crime and got away with it. They interfered with a flight crew and US Airways did exactly what they were suppose to do. These guys, whether they were terrorists or not, they did not follow the flight crews instructions. These guys should be sitting in jail like any other person who is not a muslim would be right now, if they did the exact same thing. End of story.
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