Muslim Radicals In Our Midst

The big story over night is the six Muslims who were forced off of a flight in Minneapolis after they were observed doing their evening prayers, making anti-American comments, and asking for seatbelt extensions when it was apparent they did not need them:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Six Muslim clerics who were refused tickets by US Airways booked a flights back home Tuesday on another airline, but it still wasn’t clear what led to their removal from their original flight.

The imams had attended a conference in Minneapolis of the North American Imams Federation, said Omar Shahin of Phoenix, president of the group, who was one of those removed from the flight. Three of them said their normal evening prayers in the airport terminal before boarding the Phoenix-bound plane, he said.

“They took us off the plane, humiliated us in a very disrespectful way,” Shahin said after the incident on Monday night.

The next morning Shahin called for Muslims and non-Muslims to boycott US Airways unless the company changes its ways. “They know what they have to do, they have to be fair and just with everybody,” he said….

Airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said some witnesses said some of the imams made anti-American comments about the war in Iraq before boarding the flight, and that some of the men asked for seat belt extensions even though a flight attendant thought they didn’t need them.

“There were a number of things that gave the flight crew pause,” Hogan said. It wasn’t immediately possible to verify whether the passengers who reported suspicious activity witnessed it themselves.

Shahin said Tuesday that three members of the group prayed in the terminal before the six boarded the plane, although on Monday night he said they had prayed on the plane. They entered the aircraft individually, except for one member who is blind and needed a guide, Shahin said. Once on the plane, the six did not sit together, he said.

“We did nothing” on the plane, Shahin said Tuesday.

When they were asked to leave the plane they refused:

Police were called after the captain and airport security workers asked the men to leave the plane and the men refused, Rader said. Shahin said no one asked the six to leave until police arrived, when the group complied.

A big pat on the back to those who felt uncomfortable enough to send warning to the crew. Another big pat on the back for the Captain having the strength to not buckle under in this PC world and forcing these yahoo’s off the plane.

I mean how many warning signals do people need? They were overheard talking amongst themselves in which they spewed anti-American tirades. They conducted a prayer ceremony in the terminal. They all went to individual seats and boarded individually instead of together. They made a bizarre request for seatbelt extensions.

Hell, if they had not been asked to leave I would have left.

It’s too bad that their kind has declared war on our Country, but until the moderates amongst them start taking over their Religion this will be more and more common.

Oh, one other thing. These six were NOT moderates. They were in Minneapolis to attend this meeting:

Note that Keith Ellison was a invited speaker.

Omar Shahin was one of the six that were forced to leave the plane. He was also quoted extensively in the above news articles and on TV.

Omar has a bit of a history that is important to this story, namely that he is connected to a group, Kind Hearts, that the Fed’s shut down due to their support of terrorists:

When the Tsunami disaster struck Muslim families in south East Asia, the students of Arizona Culture Academy answered the call and rushed to help. They emptied their piggy banks, brought their allowances, and lobbied their families to participate. In five days, $8,014.00 was collected and given to the Representative Imam Omar Shahin of the Kind Hearts Organization.

Where did all that money go? Well to Hamas of course:

The U.S. Department of the Treasury today blocked pending investigation accounts of KindHearts, an NGO operating out of Toledo, Ohio, to ensure the preservation of its assets pending further investigation.

“KindHearts is the progeny of Holy Land Foundation and Global Relief Foundation, which attempted to mask their support for terrorism behind the fa�ade of charitable giving,” said Stuart Levey, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “By utilizing this specialized designation tool, we’re able to prevent asset flight in support of terrorist activities while we further investigate the activities of KindHearts.”

This action was taken pursuant to E.O. 13224, which is aimed at denying financial and material support to terrorists and their facilitators.

Following the December 2001 asset freeze and law enforcement actions against the Hamas-affiliated Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and the al Qaida-affiliated Global Relief Foundation (GRF), former GRF official Khaled Smaili established KindHearts from his residence in January 2002. Smaili founded KindHearts with the intent to succeed fundraising efforts of both HLF and GRF, aiming for the new NGO to fill a void caused by the closures. KindHearts leaders and fundraisers once held leadership or other positions with HLF and GRF.

Support to Hamas in Lebanon

KindHearts officials and fundraisers have coordinated with Hamas leaders and made contributions to Hamas-affiliated organizations. Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) Usama Hamdan, a leader of Hamas in Lebanon, reportedly phoned a top fundraiser for KindHearts during a September 2003 KindHearts fundraiser. During the call, Hamas leader Hamdan reportedly communicated to the fundraiser his gratitude for KindHearts’ support. The KindHearts fundraiser reportedly also provided advice to Hamdan, telling him not to trust the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

Icing on the cake is Omar’s own admission of being in cahoots with Osama back in the 90’s and that he doesn’t believe Muslims were behind 9/11: (via Jihad Watch)

Arizona appears to have been the home of a “sleeper cell” of Osama bin Laden’s worldwide terrorist organization, with a select group of operatives living quietly in bland apartment complexes and obtaining flight training in preparation for the Sept. 11 attacks.

The organization’s known history in the state goes back nine years and scholars say the activities of at least three part-time Arizona residents fits the pattern of the al-Qaeda terrorist group.

“We can only speculate at this point, but I’m convinced the FBI is operating under the assumption that Arizona was host to an al-Qaeda cell,” said Jack Williams, a professor of law at Georgia State University who has studied the group’s financing methods.

[…]Omar Shahin of the Tucson Islamic Center said members of the Tucson mosque may have helped bin Laden in the early 1990s, when he was fighting against the Russians. But that was during the Cold War when U.S. intelligence agencies were encouraging support for bin Laden.

“They (the CIA) called him a ‘freedom fighter,'” Sahin said. “Then they tell us he is involved in terrorist acts, and they stopped supporting him, and we stopped.”

Shahin and Saadeddin expressed doubt that Muslims were responsible for the Sept. 11 attack. They also said they don’t trust much of what the FBI has divulged – including the hijackers’ identities.

[…]Shahin of the Tucson Islamic Center said more than 1,200 Muslims died in the World Trade Center catastrophe, and no genuine member of Islam would do such a thing. Nor, he added, would Muslims have gone to strip joints prior to the attack, as several of the terrorists in Florida reportedly did. As for Al-Qaeda nests in America, Shahin said, “All of these, they make it up.”

Then to top all of this off we have an account from someone who stayed at the hotel where this Imam meeting took place. This person overheard a speaker railing about Muslim oppression inside the United States: (via Lileks)

Hmmm. According to the TV, the men said they were in town for �a religious conference.� Interesting. I was talking today with a guy I know; he�d been at a suburban hotel for an annual company sales meeting. The regional manager was having a difficult time speaking, since the party in the next conference room was praying about as loudly as is humanly possible, and had followed the prayers with a speaker who expressed in rather . . . forceful terms the depth of Muslim oppression in America. Unless there are several Muslim religious conferences going on in Minneapolis at the moment, I�d guess that might be the one. If so, I wonder if the reported truculence of the men might have been influenced, or at least reinforced, by the speaker. Whoever he was.

So we have a group of Imams meeting in Minneapolis where some of the speeches were about Muslim oppression. At least one of the participants has ties to a group that has been banned in the US due to their support of terrorists. This same participant has stated that he and his mosque members supported Osama in the 90’s. Then he along with 5 of his comrades start praying inside a airport terminal and continue to act strangely all the way until they are forced to leave the aircraft.

And they have the gall to suggest this was uncalled for? Hell, the terrorist supporters at CAIR have been beating the drums all day:

Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, expressed anger at the detentions.

“CAIR will be filing a complaint with relevant authorities in the morning over the treatment of the imams to determine whether the incident was caused by anti-Muslim hysteria by the passengers and/or the airline crew,” Hooper said. “Because, unfortunately, this is a growing problem of singling out Muslims or people perceived to be Muslims at airports, and it’s one that we’ve been addressing for some time.”

Hooper said the meeting drew about 150 imams from all over the country, and that those attending included U.S. Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minneapolis, who just became the first Muslim elected to Congress. Shahin said they went as far as notifying police and the FBI about their meeting in advance.

Ibrahim, formely Doug Hooper, is the same guy who stated that he hopes the United States would become an Islamic state someday in the future:

“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future,” Hooper told the Star Tribune. “But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”

Any of this starting to make sense yet?

Think about this for a minute. We have a meeting of 150 Muslim radicals inside the United States. These radicals all live inside the United States. They are supported by a group with known ties to terrorists who are bases inside the United States.

Do you think we need that NSA Wiretapping Bill now?

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Any of this starting to make sense yet?

Think about this for a minute. We have a meeting of 150 Muslim radicals inside the United States. These radicals all live inside the United States. They are supported by a group with known ties to terrorists who are bases inside the United States.

Do you think we need that NSA Wiretapping Bill now?

Curt

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