6 imams, Aviation Security, CAIR

Suing imams were “spoiling for an incident”

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Flying Imam says to American travelers: “Security at the airport isn’t OUR problem, it’s THEIR problem.” Hear Omar Shahin in his own words:

[Editor — February 17, 2010: Welcome, fellow Michelle Malkin fans. You’d think President Obama’s top adviser on terrorism and homeland security, the purportedly brilliant John Brennan with his 25 years working in intelligence and counter-terrorism, would have recognized the lead Flying Imam’s face. Not only did Omar Shahin have peripheral connections with one of the 9/11 hijacker pilots, but his mug was also all over the national news for several weeks just three years ago. How quickly some of us forget even the most notorious from the recent past. The audio links noted below were from a friend yet they no longer work as the host he used discontinued service. We’ll have a post related to Michelle’s up this morning on our front page.]

During a teleconference, made the week following the November 20, 2006, US Airway Flight 300 and obviously for public consumption, flying imam Omar Shahin also indicates, in his own words, they were spoiling for an incident:

It will be not one case, it will be many cases. One, in the name of the federation, one in the name of the imams themselves personally, one, in the name of the Islamic Centers we belong to. So it will be many, many, many cases, because that’s what we cannot tolerate in this country any more, to single us out of the passengers every once in a while…we cannot tolerate this anymore. We, like others, go through the security, like everybody else, nobody has the right after that to single us out… Second, if they don’t trust the security, this is their problem, not our problem. [click on that link to hear the audio]

“It [security] is not OUR problem. It’s THEIR problem.” What Americans who watched those planes hit the buildings feel “it’s not our problem?” Five years later, people debate whether it’s effective, but they co-operate at airport security. We’re all in this together. The US against THEM is us against the terrorists. Maybe Shahin doesn’t feel that way because, well, he doesn’t feel antipathy for them. He doesn’t consider them the bad guys. That statement to me is really quite revealing. Hence, many, many, many lawsuits… the fact that it could hurt security: “that’s THEIR problem.”

Omar Shahin later said during the teleconference:

Since minute one of this incident, I then contacted Ibrahim Hooper and brother Nihad Awad and we arranged everything…. we are already in coordination with everything… and we update each other every once in a while, every two hours, three hours. Everything’s being coordinated with CAIR. Even today I asked MAS [Muslim American Society] chapter Arizona, please, whatever you want to do, just let brother Ibrahim Hooper and Nihad Awad know about it before you do. That’s what we are doing and we are going to do that in the future. Inshallah. [click on that link to hear the audio]

They were spoiling for an incident, from “minute one,” minute one beginning with the first shouted “Allahu Akbar” before boarding that plane.

The New York Post today agrees that the imams and CAIR were “spoiling for an incident”:

Last November, US Airways removed six Muslim clerics from a flight preparing to depart Minneapolis after several passengers – including other Muslims and Arabic speakers – noted them behaving suspiciously. Their activities included moving between seats, praying ostentatiously and repeatedly bringing up Osama bin Laden’s name in Arabic.

They were, in other words, spoiling for an incident. They got it.

Responding to passenger concerns, the captain kept the plane on the ground and alerted the FBI. The imams were removed and questioned for several hours.
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CAIR promotes itself as a “civil rights” group – when in fact it has expressed support for such terrorist groups as Hamas and has seen several of its former officials and staffers convicted of terror-related charges. (It has also received millions in funding from Saudi sources.)

Previously, CAIR focused its intimidation strategy on media and political figures who dared to criticize the organization or any actions undertaken in the name of Islam.

With this suit, it is pretty clear CAIR is setting its sights higher – and lower.

It will score a major victory if it can intimidate everyday Americans into remaining silent if they believe they see the beginnings of a terror attack.

9/11, conspiracy theories

More evidence of Rosie O’Donnell’s ignorance

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By now nearly everyone has heard that Rosie O’Donnell has joined the other ignorant, lying, politically motivated, anti-Semites, or profiteering 9/11 conspiracy theorists. They imply or state outright that 9/11 was an “inside job” conducted by Zionists, by many members of our own government, or both. She offered her “theories” on a TV show named The View, saying, in part:

“I do believe that it defies physics that the World Trade Center tower 7, building 7, which collapsed in on itself, it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being used.”

She predicated that statement by sarcastically saying, “I do believe that it is the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel.” Beyond her obvious ignorance of how steel is made, the NIST report states the sustained fires were hot enough to weaken the steel within the badly damaged Towers 1 and 2 and did cause their collapse. In addition, Popular Mechanics has debunked the conspiracy theories at length and in detail.

In furtherance of Ms. O’Donnell’s education and while we await the NIST’s final report on WTC 7, I offer her this resource.

Protec Documentation Services, Inc, states they are, “the world’s most knowledgeable independent authorities on explosive demolition, having performed engineering studies, structural analysis, vibration/air overpressure monitoring and photographic services on well over 1,000 structure blasting events in more than 30 countries.” In October 2001, they briefly answered a series of questions concerning the 9/11 attacks upon the World Trade Center. Last year, their Director of Field Operations, Brent Blanchard, and a Protec team produced a scientific study of the collapses. Concerning WTC Tower 7, they said, in part:

Seismographs at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, recorded the collapses on WTC 1, 2 and 7. This data was later released to the public and currently appears on their website. Additionally, on 9/11 Protec field technicians were utilizing portable field seismographs to continuously record ground vibrations on several construction sites in Manhattan and Brooklyn for liability proposes.

In all cases where seismographs detected the collapses, waveform readings indicate a single, gradually ascending and descending level of ground vibrations during the event. At no point during 9/11 were sudden or independent vibration “spikes” documented by any seismograph, and we are unaware of any entity possessing such data.

This evidence makes a compelling argument against explosive demolition. The laws of physics dictate that any detonation powerful enough to defeat steel columns would have transferred excess energy through those columns into the ground, and would have certainly been detected by at least one of the monitors that were sensitive enough to record the structural collapses. However, a detailed analysis of all available data reveals no presence of any unusual or abnormal events.

Ms. O’Donnell can find Protec’s October 2001 answers and their detailed report by clicking on the image below or continue to profit from 9/11 and the dead while “entertaining” her information-challenged fans who applaud her every word.

Implosion World
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Update: I was remiss and failed to acknowledge our good friends at Cox&Forkum, particularly John’s caricature of Rosie O’Donnell and their alerting us to Jonah Goldberg’s pithy piece on her:

“For the record, fire can melt steel, and buildings collapse when heat weakens steel. But that misses the point. The point is we shouldn’t have to argue with crazy people.”

Point taken yet Ms. O’Donnell’s popularity unduly influences and, unanswered, her audience will remain blissfully unaware of the facts that contradict her.