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Religious-freedom advocates back 'John Does', CAIR round two
 WASHINGTON -- A religious-freedom advocacy group yesterday asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit against airline passengers who reported suspicious behavior of a group of Muslim imams that resulted in their removal from a US Airways flight.The amicus brief by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota was filed on behalf of "John Doe" passengers who are included in a lawsuit against the airline and the Minneapolis Metropolitan Airports Commission. "The case against the John Does should be dismissed because no law could or should be construed to punish them for reporting a possible terrorist attack to airline authorities," the Becket Fund, a nonprofit legal organization that litigates religious-liberty cases, said in the court filing. Yet the Democrats and the terror-apologists at CAIR think otherwise. Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), said he "does not think this legislation would prevent that lawsuit because there is a good faith provision in the legislation." "And to determine whether the reports are made in good faith, you might still have to ask them in a court of law," Mr. Hooper said on MSNBC.
Posted by: Icerigger 2007-08-02 |
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