Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:29:00
Where are the moderate Muslims in America? Right here.
And they’re telling the flying imams to go piss up a rope.
Lawyers and a Muslim group say they will defend at no cost airline passengers caught up in a lawsuit between a group of imams and U.S. Airways if the passengers are named as “John Does” and sued for reporting suspicious behavior that got the Muslim clerics booted from a November flight.
The six imams are suing the airline, Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission, and the unnamed “John Does” to be named later, for discrimination, saying they were removed from the flight for praying in the airport.
Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Phoenix-area physician and director of American Islamic Forum for Democracy—a group founded in 2003 to promote moderate Muslim ideas through its Web site (www.aifdemocracy.org)—told The Washington Times his group will raise money for legal fees for passengers if they are sued by the imams.
“It’s so important that America know there are Muslims who understand who the victims are in air travel,” said Dr. Jasser. “But I hope it doesn’t get to that point because the backlash will be even greater when Americans see Islamists trying to punish innocent passengers reporting fears.”
The lawsuit specifically cites two passengers who stared at the men as they prayed, then made a cell phone call that the imams say went to U.S. Airways to complain about the prayer.
Very cool. One can only imagine how frightening it must be to be a moderate Muslim and want to speak up about idiots like the flying imams, but feel like you can’t because extremists will mark you for death. Bravo to Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser and the AIFD.
Hat tip: Wizbang, who got it from JunkYardBlog and HotAir who has video of Dr. Jasser.
Posted by JimK at 02:29 PM on March 21, 2007
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#2 Posted by mgnmfrc1 
on 03/21 at 04:24 PM -
“It’s so important that America know there are Muslims who understand who the victims are in air travel,” said Dr. Jasser. “But I hope it doesn’t get to that point because the backlash will be even greater when Americans see Islamists trying to punish innocent passengers reporting fears.”
Rock on Dr. Jasser. In the battle of media attention maybe this will be a first step in shutting down these assholes. We need to see these moderates speak out. Good for them!
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#1 Posted by Kim Priestap
on 03/21 at 03:55 PM -
Lol! I’m pirating that expression.