I’m confused. A little earlier, you wrote:

Its funny, in sort of a scary way, that leftists always give the benefit of the doubt to groups of people who make up the main enemies of this country

But now you’re saying it’s OK to give them the benefit of the doubt as long as they don’t pray out loud? That sort of thinking inconveninced the six scholars, but didn’t slow down Mr. Atta at all.

“you guys made me declare jihad on the western world, if only you were nicer to me!”

Just say it, Pedro. Fascism’s A-OK as long as they don’t come for you.

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO PRACTICE ISLAM

Maybe this can be Glenn Beck’s new nightly CNN show: “Prove You’re Not Our Enemy.” Each night, Beck will interview three ACTUAL Muslims, at great personal risk, to ensure us that they are not members of al-Qaida. With the millions of Muslims living in America, the show will last indefinitely! It’s genius, I tells ya.

(And hey, if it pisses off any Muslims to the point that they consider radical Islam as an answer…well, that just proves Beck and Dr. Pedro were right!)

So now we should “detain” anyone who speaks out against the war? Nice. You’re a great American.

Also, leftists always give the benefit of the doubt to groups of people who make up the main enemies of this country…

That’s just not true. I don’t give any benefit of the doubt to the Bush administration.

No, Peed’, we’re not ready to hand over our freedoms to Sharia or to evangelical Christian government either.

So spell it out for us: do you think every Muslim should be questioned before they’re allowed to fly? Or maybe only the ones who dare to pray. Or talk about Islam out loud?

Maybe you’d rather just skip all the fuss and deport them all?

C’mon, Peed’. Tell us how you’d run things if you had your way.

Lets see how your liberal ideas fly under Sharia law shall we?

“I KNOW EXACTLY what they were thinking, what was said and how it was handled. Because I read it in the newspaper.”

Flight 300 was still at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport when the incident occurred. Before the imams boarded, they were “praying loudly in the gate area. Some were heard to be making statements against the U.S. involvement in Iraq,” Pat Hogan, spokesman for the airport, said in an interview today.

Some of the six repeatedly said “Allah” as they boarded, then asked to change seats and requested safety-belt extensions that they put under their seats, Hogan said. One was overheard to say he would “go to whatever measures necessary to obey all that is set out in the Koran,” Hogan said.

Yeah, that’s classic subversive behaviour right there OH HOLY GOD I CAN’T EVEN TYPE THAT SARCASTICALLY JESUS CHRIST

And Jerry, I will totally go with your “n the future the rule should be: when we remove X for being suspicious, we also remove the person that reported person X”….so long as you allow that same rule with the police…That way we can start rounding up more illegal aliens….

Think about that.

The truth of all this is, bigotry against Muslims and non-whites in general has always been there. This fear (which is the basis of all bigotry and racism) was increased after 9/11. The reason behind this is because it’s NOT JUST WHITES who fear Muslims now.

People are so afraid that just the sight of middle-eastern person praying portends a terror attack. It IS bigotry, but I DO also understand the basis of this fear. I’m also ashamed that Americans are behaving EXACTLY as the terrorist want us to. We’re so afraid of dying that we’ll change our way of life (like say, turning a blind eye to creeping fascism) if we think it’ll keep us safe.

It’s sad.

In the future the rule should be: when we remove X for being suspicious, we also remove the person that reported person X.

Those imams? Not hijackers! But some fearful little soul heard the word “Allah,” so they got yanked around.

Are we safer yet?

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

And once again in the World Series of Irony, Pedro cracks one out of the park.