Debra Burlingame, sister of the pilot whose hijacked airliner crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, has a masterpiece of an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal (available at the following link:  http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009348).  The piece, "On a Wing and a Prayer" rightly skewers the group of six bearded Imams who put on a terrorist performance in Minneapolis International Airport and aboard U.S. Airways Flight 300, shouting "Allahu Akbar!" and then engaging in such suspicious behavior as switching from their assigned seats to those favored by the 9/11 terrorists, asking for seat belt extensions that could be used as weapons and talking loudly and provocatively in Arabic about U.S. involvement in the war on terror, bin Laden and Saddam.  Now CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (a jihadist front group), and the Muslim American Society are talking about suing the airline and pressing for laws to "protect" Muslims from airline security rules.

We have been very tolerant of Muslims in this country.  Women walk freely in headscarves, mosques in U.S. cities go unmolested, and Americans genuinely try not to hold all Muslims accountable for the terrorists' actions.  But tolerance does not equate to stupidity.  Groups like the Imams who disrupted that flight should be barred from flying forever and charged with a crime for intentionally disrupting an airline flight by acting like terrorists.  CAIR should be thoroughly investigated by the FBI and regularly rousted for its anti-American, pro-Islamofascist leanings.  All Muslim groups should be looked upon with suspicion and all Arabs and Muslims should be profiled, not just in transportation activities, but whenever and wherever they exhibit potentially threatening behavior.  This policy should remain effect for the duration of the War on Terror. 

The Federal Government should immediately end the ridiculous policy of random searches of obviously American babies and grandmothers that must be endured at airports and start screening those who best fit the profile of a terrorist.  If a loyal American can be arrested for cracking a joke about hijacking at an airport or aboard a plane, people such as these Imams should be subjected to the same harsh treatment, if not worse. 

Our tolerance should have limits.  There's a war on, remember?

Contributed by Shane Briscoe on December 6, 2006 at 05:06 PM in Shane Briscoe | Permalink

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