The other day I mentioned the 6 "Flying Imams" who were kicked off a US Airways flight for suspicious behavior. Initially many were saying it was profiling and racially insensitive and they were being punished for flying while Muslim. Turns out, that's not the case at all.

Reading through various reports from witnesses and such, one sees that the Imams were going out of their way to act suspicious. Either they wanted a controversy to weaken security, or they wanted to test how far they could push security so that people with bad intentions will know what they can and can't do to avoid being kicked off a flight they plan to hijack. At any rate, the things they did that were suspicious.... They prayed loudly to Allah both before and after entering the plane, but Muslims are supposed to pray only once at sunset. Only one had a 1st class ticket, but they all entered with the 1st class passengers, then spread out through the plane, in much the same way the 9/11 hijackers did. An arabic speaker overheard them praising Allah and condemning America for the whole Saddam/Iraq thing. One of them, a thin one, requested a seatbelt extender which he never used. He placed it on the ground, presumably to later use as a weapon. It's basically a strap with a heavy metal object at the end, easy to swing and bash someone's head in. Oh, and other Muslims on the flight were not only not disturbed by the airline or kicked off the flight, but they cheered the decision, also being made neervous by the "Flying Imams."

Anyone who has a problem with the actions US Airways took is either an enemy of our country, or extremely naive. I consider someone who thinks being politically correct is more important than trying to save American lives as enemy of our country, BTW. Because if this turns in to a war of Western Civilization versus Islam, it will be because those PC people took way too long to acknowledge any threat, and might as well ahve killed Americans themselves.