Coulter, Charen, and the Six Imams
I read through the rest of today's column by Ann Coulter and I recommend it. It has more information on why U.S. Airways asked six imams to leave a flight to Minneapolis (other than the media's presumption of "racism" against muslims.)
Says Ann:
"Witnesses said the imams stood to do their evening prayers in the terminal before boarding, chanting "Allah, Allah, Allah" -- coincidentally, the last words heard by hundreds of airline passengers on 9/11 before they died."
(Looks like I am not the only one who sees a pattern in past history.)
"Witnesses also said that the imams were talking about Saddam Hussein, and denouncing America and the war in Iraq. About the only scary preflight ritual the imams didn't perform was the signing of last wills and testaments. After boarding, the imams did not sit together and some asked for seat belt extensions, although none were morbidly obese. Three of the men had one-way tickets and no checked baggage. Also they were Muslims."
Mona Charen at Town Hall has some inforamtion on this, too and adds:
"While we would love to think that Islam is as pacific as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism, the facts suggest otherwise. Time and again, terrorists who have committed or attempted to commit murder on a large scale have done so after becoming serious Muslims. "
The only qualification I would make to that statement is to say that her feelings hold here in America, but I have friends in India who say different about Hinduism and Buddhism. There, they are just as prosecutorial as Islam, but lack forced conversion (convert or die) and have not assaulted the world in "9/11, Kobar Towers, Tanzanian Embassy, U.S.S. cole-style" tactics.
Both articles are well worth the time it takes to read them.
By the way, for those who made the same allegation of racism at me for my column about the Ellis victory speech (and every other piece I wrote that didn't support the radical muslim position) "Islam" and "muslim" are not races. It's a religion. What you were supposed to accuse me of was "Islamo-phobia." But, I understand. It's hard to keep track of all those slurs when you have so many of them, isn't it.
Says Ann:
"Witnesses said the imams stood to do their evening prayers in the terminal before boarding, chanting "Allah, Allah, Allah" -- coincidentally, the last words heard by hundreds of airline passengers on 9/11 before they died."
(Looks like I am not the only one who sees a pattern in past history.)
"Witnesses also said that the imams were talking about Saddam Hussein, and denouncing America and the war in Iraq. About the only scary preflight ritual the imams didn't perform was the signing of last wills and testaments. After boarding, the imams did not sit together and some asked for seat belt extensions, although none were morbidly obese. Three of the men had one-way tickets and no checked baggage. Also they were Muslims."
Mona Charen at Town Hall has some inforamtion on this, too and adds:
"While we would love to think that Islam is as pacific as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism, the facts suggest otherwise. Time and again, terrorists who have committed or attempted to commit murder on a large scale have done so after becoming serious Muslims. "
The only qualification I would make to that statement is to say that her feelings hold here in America, but I have friends in India who say different about Hinduism and Buddhism. There, they are just as prosecutorial as Islam, but lack forced conversion (convert or die) and have not assaulted the world in "9/11, Kobar Towers, Tanzanian Embassy, U.S.S. cole-style" tactics.
Both articles are well worth the time it takes to read them.
By the way, for those who made the same allegation of racism at me for my column about the Ellis victory speech (and every other piece I wrote that didn't support the radical muslim position) "Islam" and "muslim" are not races. It's a religion. What you were supposed to accuse me of was "Islamo-phobia." But, I understand. It's hard to keep track of all those slurs when you have so many of them, isn't it.
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