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Home Front: Culture Wars
Imams Booted Off Plane Want $ettlement From USAir
2006-12-12
Ousted imams want airline settlement
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Five of six Muslim imams who were taken off a US Airways flight in Minneapolis last month want an out-of-court settlement from the airline for the ordeal.
Ordeal?
After the Nov. 28 incident, the airline offered to meet with the group of clerics Dec. 4, but the men declined and instead sought legal help from the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington.

"With the hopes of reaching an amicable resolution to this matter, we would like to take this opportunity to ask for a formal meeting with US Airways executives and legal counsel," Arsalan Iftikhar, CAIR's national legal director, wrote to the airline.
CAIR. Figures.
There are conflicting reports of what happened after security agents escorted the men off the plane based on other passengers' complaints of suspicious activity, the Washington Times said Monday.

CAIR claims the men were handcuffed for several hours, but one of the imams told the Times he was only handcuffed for "10 or 15 minutes" and that the imams were not led off the plane in handcuffs.
Taqiyya, baby. I'll bet there are security tapes which prove it, one way or t'other.
An airline spokeswoman said the meeting request was received, but a date has not been set.
Tell 'em, politely, to Fuck Off. Beat 'em like a drum. Ticket sales will (continue to) skyrocket, lol.
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#18  I'll settle with them. How about six, 45 cal enimas?
Posted by: anymouse   2006-12-12 23:58  

#17  Waiting for Keith Ellison's name to surface in this one.
Posted by: Grunter   2006-12-12 22:49  

#16  Shit I was in that airport that day. I should counter sue!

Clearly Arsalan Iftikhar is looking to buy a fresh goat to bugger.

I posted an early story today about the Imam's Mooslum terrorist connections printed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Wonder if it got posted...
Posted by: Icerigger   2006-12-12 17:52  

#15  Can I shoot them ?
Just one of 'em ?
Pulleeeese !
Posted by: wxjames   2006-12-12 17:52  

#14  we counter - S/B "WERE COUNTER"
Posted by: Zenster   2006-12-12 17:32  

#13  Like I mentioned in the other thread dealing with this, US Airways needs to file a countersuit.

It is clear these individuals conspired to interfere with their flight. As I recall, they occupied 9-11 seating positions with one of them in first class without any ticketing for it. I also seem to recall that their initial 9-11 positions we counter to their personal seating assignments as well. These simple points, along with how they managed to trigger so many other separate security threshholds with their actions should be sufficient to obtain a rather damaging settlement.

Any comments, exJAG?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-12-12 17:31  

#12  Oh yeah, funny side note. I forwarded Arse's threat letter to Daniel Pipes, and he sent a most interesting reply.

My column stated simply that five CAIR officials had been arrested, deported, or convicted on terrorism charges, without naming names. In attacking this claim, Arse did name names, mentioning a Rabih Haddad who had been a CAIR official in Michigan.

Pipes reponded that he knew Haddad was a jihadi player, but hadn't been able to confirm his association with CAIR. Until he read Arse's furiously dashed-off letter, that is.

They don't call em "jihadiots" for nothng, LOL.
Posted by: exJAG   2006-12-12 16:23  

#11  I can't imagine US Airways will cave. Arsalan Iftikhar has got to be a household name by now, having threatened to sue just about everyone on the planet -- including me. A few years back, I wrote a column for a college paper that contained one sentence referencing CAIR's terror connections.

Six hours after it was posted online, at a university several hundred miles from DC, he e-mailed me and the editors with all kinds of demands and threats, and threats if we told anyone about the demands and threats. I presented a pile of evidence to the editors and counsel that my claim was true, and luckily, they had a backbone. They told him to piss off, and that was the last we heard of it.

And that's all anyone has to do to put an end to this shit.
Posted by: exJAG   2006-12-12 16:11  

#10  If you go to US Air, they have an easy contact us form
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-12-12 15:08  

#9  Where do I go to contribute to the US Airways Legal Defense Fund?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2006-12-12 14:40  

#8  Oh, and wait for the discovery process to begin. We're in for some interesting revelations about these people, their contacts and associates.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2006-12-12 11:30  

#7  There's people in hell wanting ice water, but they ain't gonna get it either.
Posted by: mojo   2006-12-12 11:16  

#6  If you have a chance, stop by and write US Air a thank you note to the crew for their actions. I also encouraged them to fight the lawsuit.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-12-12 10:54  

#5  Straight out of Jesse Jacksons playbook. Maybe USair could give them some beer distributorships.
They got their money back shortly after they were "deplaned"... that quicker than any white businessperson would get a refund from USscare.
Posted by: Capsu 78   2006-12-12 10:11  

#4  Take a jury trial. Unless its in Detroit, I'd wouldn't worry.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2006-12-12 09:08  

#3  How about five to twenty in a federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-prison for instigating a hijack scare?

Or would the Imams consider that a benefit?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-12-12 08:20  

#2  Five 1/2 way tickets sounds like suitable compensation.
Posted by: Skidmark   2006-12-12 06:59  

#1  "Here's your packet of nuts. Have a nice day."
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-12-12 06:23  

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