Settlement Reached in Case of Praying Imams Removed From Flight

 FOXNEWS…Six imams who were removed from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis in 2006 have reached a tentative settlement of their discrimination lawsuit.The imams’ attorney, Omar Mohammedi, said Tuesday that all sides agreed to the settlement at a conference Monday. But he said the details still need to be finalized and the settlement needs to be approved by a federal judge.

Mohammedi declined to comment on the terms of the settlement but saids the six imams are satisfied with it.

An attorney for US Airways, Michael Lindberg, declined comment.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Airports Commission had no immediate information.

The six Muslim imams were removed from the Phoenix-bound flight after passengers reported what they considered suspicious behavior.

They sued the airline, saying that unnamed “John Doe” passengers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport reported that they engaged in “suspicious” behavior — praying in the terminal — before they boarded the plane.

 

The lawsuit alleged that US Airways unlawfully removed the six imams from Flight 300 for discriminatory reasons based on race, religion, ethnicity, or other outside appearances.

The lawsuit said US Airways has “falsely claimed” the imams’ “suspicious” behavior, including saying “God is Great” in Arabic on the plane, talking about President Bush and Iraq and purchasing one-way tickets with cash. Passengers also reported that some of the imams asked for seat belt extenders and switched seats.

The suit says one of the imams was blind, and his friend asked another passenger if he would help him by switching seats. The passenger agreed, the suit alleged.

According to the lawsuit, the same imam regularly requests a seatbelt extension when flying.

According to the lawsuit, police arrived at the scene after receiving a call from the airline. The imams were forced off the plane, searched, handcuffed and held against their will for hours without explanation. The imams claim they were questioned by the FBI about where they were from, whether they did anything out of the ordinary in the airport and whether they wanted to do harm to the president of the United States.

An internal probe by US Airways found there was no racial profiling in the incident.

Is political correctness to blame for lack of coverage over horrific black-on-white killings in America’s Deep South?

For ‘The Narative’ files:  h/t Solstice from the Daily Mail:

By David Gardner
Last updated at 10:53 AM on 16th October 2009

It was the kind of crime that strikes terror into the hearts of  parents everywhere.

A bright young couple were carjacked after a Saturday night date and murdered in the most brutal way imaginable.

Christopher Newsom, 23, was tied up and raped, shot in the back of the head and then dragged to a railway track and set on fire.

His girlfriend, 21-year-old University of Tennessee student Channon Christian’s fate was even more horrific.

Her death came only after hours of torture, during which time she was raped and savaged with a broken chair leg.

She was beaten in the head and a household bleach was poured down her throat and over her bleeding and battered genital area in an attempt by her attackers to cover any evidence of rape – all while she was still alive.
Channon Christian Christopher NewsomTorture: Channon Christian was forced to watch the attackers rape and kill her boyfriend Christopher Newsom before she was murdered
Then she was ‘hog-tied’ with curtains and a strip of bedding and a plastic bag was wrapped over her face.

Her body was stashed inside five bigger rubbish liners and dumped in a bin, where, according to the autopsy report, she slowly suffocated to death. Continue Reading →

Another odd Obama pick?

For the very first time I am considering the possibility that David Icke may be right and the world is actually ruled by ‘Lizard people’. One would hope though that technologically advanced people would be able to create better disguises. Or perhaps the batteries are wearing down on this one’s ‘woman suit’.  Of less concern than that this woman seems to be a human-lizard-alien hybrid, is that she feels that Mao is her political hero and inspiration.

There really is no way to talk oneself out of that. One can admire a persons accomplishments or specific things that may have said, but to call them your favorite philosopher over all pretty much means you agree with them. When ‘them’ is one of histories largest ever mass murderers, we have a serious problem in the White House.

Eeyore

New York: Revolution Muslim spreads hate, calls for the murder of Jews

From FOX News; courtesy TROP

New York-Based Muslim’s Web Site Calls for God to ‘Kill the Jews’

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By Joshua Rhett Miller

Yousef al-Khattab, formerly Joseph Cohen, is seen here in an undated photograph.

A New York bicycle cabbie who last year used his Web site to mock the beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl posted a prayer calling for the murder of Jews and exhorting Muslims to “throw liquid drain cleaner in their faces.” And there’s nothing authorities can do about it.

Yousef al-Khattab, who runs RevolutionMuslim.com and pedals a pedicab in New York City, insists the words he has posted on his Web site are a prayer, and not a threat — and that his hatred is protected by the First Amendment.

“If it was a threat, I’d be in jail,” the 41-year-old al-Khattab told Foxnews.com from his home in Queens. “I’m asking my God, that’s what it is. Every supporter of Israel is an enemy combatant and the immune system is not anti-Semitic for resisting disease.”

Al-Khattab removed the Oct. 7 post a “few days ago” and replaced it with a post about a mosque in Jerusalem.

An American-born Jew formerly known as Joseph Cohen who converted to Islam after attending an Orthodox rabbinical school — al-Khattab called on Allah to carry out “wrath on the Jewish occupiers of Palestine & their supporters.”

“Please throw liquid drain cleaner in their faces,” he wrote. ” … burn their flammable sukkos while they sleep … Ya Allah (Oh God) answer my duaa (prayer).” (“Sukkos” refers to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, during which Jews build and eat their meals in outdoor huts known as “sukkahs,” which represent the huts the Jews lived in during their exodus from Egypt.)

Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News’ senior legal analyst, said the posting is “absolutely protected” by the First Amendment. Continue Reading →

Russia to Allow Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strikes

  FOXNEWS… MOSCOW —  A leading Russian newspaper is citing a top security official as saying Russia is reserving the right to carry out pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country in the modern age.Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev says in Wednesday’s Izvestia interview that a sweeping document on military policy will be handed to President Dmitry Medvedev before year-end.

Military analysts say Patrushev is muscle-flexing because what he reveals about the proposed new doctrine suggests it differs little from the current one.

Patrushev says the new rules will allow a “flexible and timely” reaction to conflict situations.

In the same interview he singles out NATO and the United States as threats, and names Russia’s troubled North Caucasus region as an internal danger.

Breaking: Broad Investigation of CAIR Soon to be Announced Today

 

The Tundra Tabloids apologizes for not being able to say anything more about the situation, but reliable sources tell the TT that there will soon be a major announcement concerning a wide ranging investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood front group, CAIR, The Council on American-Islamic Relations. As soon as the story breaks, the Tundra Tabloids will update this post. KGS

NOTE: CAIR is the pseudo Islamic “human rights” group in the US, that has been at the forefront of disseminating false information about Islam, (religion of peace) as well as defending jihadi perps caught in the act of planning terrorism etc. etc.. It is also defending the Islamic fundamentalist parents of Rifqa Bary, the 17 year old who took off for Florida because she feared for her life after converting to Christianity.

It’s going to be very interesting to see who gets picked up either on civil or criminal charges!

UPDATE!

WORLD NET DAILY Finally unleashes it’s scoop of a story the Tundra Tabloids posted on over four hrs ago, and it’s a big one!

 

Now we have proof’

jihadis infiltrating D.C.

 

In the wake of the sensational ACORN video sting operation by two young investigators, an even more daring, dangerous and devastating undercover investigation – this one infiltrating the nation’s most aggressive Muslim “civil rights” organization for six months – has resulted in stunning revelations about the supposedly “moderate” group, backed up by 12,000 pages of documents and 300 hours of covert video obtained during the secret op.

As revealed in a new book detailing the operation and its findings, the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is not the beneficent Muslim civil-rights group it claims to be. Rather, as indisputable evidence now shows, CAIR and other “mainstream” Islamic groups are acting as fronts for a well-funded conspiracy of the Muslim Brotherhood – the parent of al-Qaida and Hamas – to infiltrate and destroy the American system.

Until now, CAIR has remained a powerful force in the nation’s capital and across the country, from demanding the Obama administration stop FBI counter-terrorism tactics to compelling a school district to apologize to Muslims.

That influence, many believe, may be coming to an end, as a result of the stunning undercover investigation – which included the son of a veteran counter-terrorism investigator, who grew a beard and converted to Islam, as well as two veiled female interns.

“Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” a WND Books publication by counter-terrorism investigator P. David Gaubatz and “Infiltration” author Paul Sperry, documents CAIR’s ultimate purpose to transform the United States into an Islamic nation under the authority of the Quran.

Get “Muslim Mafia,” autographed, from WND’s Superstore

The book already has prompted action on Capitol Hill.

With evidence from “Muslim Mafia” in hand, U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., co-founder of the Congressional Anti-Terror Caucus, and other members of Congress – including Reps. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., and Paul Broun, R-Ga. – plan to hold a press conference today in Washington calling for an investigation and an end to political lobbying by front groups such as CAIR.

“Now we have proof – from the secret documents that this investigative team has uncovered, coupled with the ones recently declassified by the FBI – that [radical Islamists] agents living among us have a plan in place, and they are successfully carrying out that subversive plan,” Myrick writes in the foreword to “Muslim Mafia.”

Judge orders runaway convert to go home

Rifqa Bary

Rifqa Bary

 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – The teenager who ran away from Ohio to Florida because she feared physical harm for converting from Islam to Christianity has been ordered back to Ohio.

A Florida judge said Tuesday that 17-year-old Rifqa Bary, who has been staying in Orlando, should return to her family, who live outside Columbus.

Bary has been in foster care in Florida while her case was being reviewed. The judge says he will turn over the case to an Ohio court in the next few weeks, but no order has been signed yet.

Bary ran away from her parents’ home in July, saying she feared being killed for changing religions. But a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation found no credible threats to Bary.

Up next for Bary is a status hearing which is scheduled for October 23, at which time her parents attorneys have to submit immigration documents. That could be the day that she is sent back to Ohio.

If the issue is not resolved by the end of October, a judicial review has been tentatively scheduled for November 10.

Blast at Islamic center raises questions

 NIN…13 October 2009: Fire scene tape remained stretched across the entrance to the Ihsan Islamic School at 423 West Onondaga Street Syracuse, New York as I walked the perimeter of the property yesterday morning.. The criss-cross of the yellow barrier serves a lone public reminder of a mysterious explosion that occurred there last Thursday afternoon. According to authorities, the blast occurred in an “unused” portion of the basement, spewing a cloud of natural gas, debris and dust into the main area of the building and forcing the evacuation of about 75 students and school personnel. Investigators have yet to release a statement about the cause of the explosion, although at least one additional meeting between fire officials and  investigators took place Monday to discuss their findings.

It’s definitely odd,” stated one law enforcement official close to the investigation, speaking to this author on the strict condition of anonymity in Syracuse on Monday. “There are issues that are under investigation that are well outside of public purview,” added this source, saying that the blast was not directly related to the building’s heating or electrical system. “The blast occurred in a location that one would not expect if it was caused by a heating unit, at least not in the normal sense. It’s curious.”

This source also stated that “it is not likely, it has basically been ruled out that [the blast] was caused by any who shouldn’t have been there, or by an outsider with criminal intent such as arson.” Although such cryptically worded statements tend to fuel notions of conspiracy, it is clear that this source was purposely intending to offset previous publicly reported suggestions that the school might have been the target of some anti-Islamic individual or group. “The evidence simply does not point in that direction.” Continue Reading →

Another history of political correctness.

A few weeks ago, we posted a rather brilliant 12 minute video from Pajamas Media on the history of the term, ‘Political Correctness’ and attached to it, another documentary they recommended that offered better detail on The Frankfurt School.

Here is another documentary covering the same theme but giving more depth on some aspects of it. This is very important stuff. A great deal of the issues and problems of the modern world are a direct consequence of thoughts, actions, and policies set into motion by a few German communists.

Link: The History of Political Correctness

NYC Muslims protest racial profiling in wake of massive terrorist arrests.

This story from Atlas Shrugs. Pam Geller makes a rather excellent point.

Where are the protests against terror? Against genocidal speech towards Jews? For freedom of religion for all? Muslims seem only to protest in the interest of Islamic manifest destiny. This alone should betray their intentions to the rest of us. Clearly the intention is to create a situation where authorities have more obstacles to investigating Islamic terror through the use of ‘political correctness’

Below, see a video of the latest Islamic protest of so called ‘racial profiling’ once again perpetrating the myth that Islam is a race, at least when it suits the purpose of Muslims to say so.

Ottawa’s refusal to take Gitmo inmates irks U.S.

White House puzzled by Canada’s abrupt refusal to accept detainees from Guantanamo prison

Flag-Sticker Toronto Star…GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA–An apparent snub by the Canadian government has dismayed officials on the Obama administration’s task force who are working to resettle dozens of detainees here and close the prison, a high-ranking administration source told the Star.

Various foreign governments have offered refuge to prisoners that the Pentagon has cleared for release, including France, Portugal, Ireland and smaller nations such as Bermuda and Palau. Dozens more are now negotiating with the task force, answering U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for help.

But the official, who has intimate knowledge of the negotiations and who spoke to the Star on the condition he not be named, said Canada abruptly stopped talks earlier this year. He said the task force was surprised to learn of Canada’s decision through a press release.

“I just found it puzzling,” there were no phone calls or diplomatic meetings, the official said. “A public rejection was odd.” Continue Reading →

“NYPD is racially profiling” Muslims charge

From TROP

Muslim advocates charge NYPD is racial profiling in Queens raids tied to alleged Zazi terror plot

BY Henrick Karoliszyn and Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Updated Saturday, October 10th 2009, 4:52 PM

Marchers gather in front of the Queens Public Library in Flushing Saturday to rally against perceived racial profiling in the NYPD's terror probe.

Farriella for News
Marchers gather in front of the Queens Public Library in Flushing Saturday to rally against perceived racial profiling in the NYPD’s terror probe.

Recent terror raids in Queens have led to a spike in fear and racial profiling, Muslim advocates charge.

About 40 people rallied outside the Flushing Public Library Saturday to draw attention to what they called an uptick in targeted policing.

The rally was in response to raids last month linked to a suspected bomb plot. Najibullah Zazi, 24, who authorities say was trained at an Al Qaeda terror camp, pleaded not guilty to conspiring to detonate explosives.

“An entire community of people and religion should not be profiled or characterized as terrorists because of [one] certain investigation,” said Monami Maulik, who runs the South Asian immigrant rights group Desis Rising Up and Moving.

Naiz Khan, who allowed Zazi to stay at his Flushing apartment, said FBI agents raided his flat and he hasn’t been able to find work since.

“I was so scared and I was so nervous,” he said. “I have been so affected by this.”

“People are scared,” said Sultan Faiz, a leader at Abu Bakar Mosque in Queens.

Organizers say Muslims in New York haven’t been this scared since the months after 9/11, when some were subject to discrimination across the country.

The NYPD issued a statement saying they don’t engage in racial profiling.