Imported Articles from Little Green Footballs & Jihad Watch

(With Commentary)

I wanted to let others who have more knowledge in this particular case to speak out on it. I want to first link MSNBC comparing these six Imams being pulled off a flight to Rosa Parks and the black people fighting for racial issues. Islam is an Ideology, of which large swaths of it are violent and embrace death more than life. This has nothing to do with Rosa Parks and is probably the dumbest connection made in this currant struggle of civilization.

Okay, here we go with the quotes:

LGF (follow his links)

Just for the record, since mainstream media is utterly uninterested in it, Omar Shahin claims that Muslims did not participate in the September 11 attacks, he’s linked to KindHearts (a “charity” that was shut down because of connections to Hamas), and has admitted ties to Osama bin Laden: Minneapolis Airport Incident Update.

Jihad Watch (follow his links)

Omar Shahin is one of the imams removed from a flight in Minneapolis. He was involved with Kind Hearts, which has been closed down for its connections to Hamas. He also acknowledged a connection to Osama bin Laden in the 1990s in a September 28, 2001 story in the Arizona Republic (thanks to Austin): "Arizona Was Home to bin Laden 'Sleeper Cell,'" by Dennis Wagner and Tom Zoellner. From that story:

Arizona appears to have been the home of a "sleeper cell" of Osama bin Laden's worldwide terrorist organization, with a select group of operatives living quietly in bland apartment complexes and obtaining flight training in preparation for the Sept. 11 attacks.

The organization's known history in the state goes back nine years and scholars say the activities of at least three part-time Arizona residents fits the pattern of the al-Qaeda terrorist group.

"We can only speculate at this point, but I'm convinced the FBI is operating under the assumption that Arizona was host to an al-Qaeda cell," said Jack Williams, a professor of law at Georgia State University who has studied the group's financing methods.

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Omar Shahin of the Tucson Islamic Center said members of the Tucson mosque may have helped bin Laden in the early 1990s, when he was fighting against the Russians. But that was during the Cold War when U.S. intelligence agencies were encouraging support for bin Laden.

"They (the CIA) called him a 'freedom fighter,'" Sahin said. "Then they tell us he is involved in terrorist acts, and they stopped supporting him, and we stopped."

Shahin and Saadeddin expressed doubt that Muslims were responsible for the Sept. 11 attack. They also said they don't trust much of what the FBI has divulged - including the hijackers' identities.

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Shahin of the Tucson Islamic Center said more than 1,200 Muslims died in the World Trade Center catastrophe, and no genuine member of Islam would do such a thing. Nor, he added, would Muslims have gone to strip joints prior to the attack, as several of the terrorists in Florida reportedly did. As for Al-Qaeda nests in America, Shahin said, "All of these, they make it up."

Why won’t the mainstream media pick the above connections up? In one short partial-acronym – P.C. It is politically incorrect to comment on ones personal belief system (unless Protestant or Catholic).

This problem we face is a misapplication, or a misunderstanding -- I should say, in regards to what constitutes a Liberal democracy. The bulk of conservatives (not monolithic however) understand it as being applied in the sense of “classical liberalism,” the liberals since the 60’s see it being applied as “egalitarian” in conception and application. It is a relativisng of application. In short, modern America lacks what Walter Lippmann calls the public philosophy. If you are reading this and wondering why I am on this tangent, you must realize that for one to deal with this threat to our commonwealth, one must have a worldview that doesn’t contradict itself in applying subject/object distinctions to pulling Imams off of a plane.

The late Alexander Bickel calls our currant political model the “liberal contradiction model” of society. However, the ordering principle for this contract to work effectively must be outside of and above liberty and equality. This is the public philosophy Lippmann eluded to, what our country had up until the 60’s. Liberty and equality cannot, yes, cannot be the highest values of a political system because they relativize and ultimately destroy all other values… thus "making" the connection to Rosa Parks a valid connection, valid only in a relativised society that is. When we make them (liberty and equality) supreme norms, we have (as a body-politic) no set of objectively human ends that can provide answers to the questions: Liberty for what? and Equality in what?

Did you need an example of this contradictory model in action? Here it is:

~First Person: “You shouldn’t force your morality on me.”

Second Person: “Why not?”

~First Person: “Because I don’t believe in forcing morality.”

Second Person: “If you don’t believe in it, then by all means, don’t do it. Especially don’t force that moral view of yours on me.”

~First Person: “You shouldn’t push your morality on me.”

Second Person: “I’m not entirely sure what you mean by that statement. Do you mean I have no right to an opinion?”

~First Person: “You have a right to you’re opinion, but you have no right to force it on anyone.”

Second Person: “Is that your opinion?”

~First Person: “Yes.”

Second Person: “Then why are you forcing it on me?”

~First Person: “But your saying your view is right.”

Second Person: “Am I wrong?”

~First Person: “Yes.”

Second Person: “Then your saying only your view is right, which is the very thing you objected to me saying.”

~First Person: “You shouldn’t push your morality on me.”

Second Person: “Correct me if I’m misunderstanding you here, but it sounds to me like your telling me I’m wrong.”

~First Person: “You are.”

Second Person: “Well, you seem to be saying my personal moral view shouldn’t apply to other people, but that sounds suspiciously like you are applying your moral view to me. Why are you forcing your morality on me?”

PapaG