A Wise Man Once Said

If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... there's a pretty good chance it's a duck. This comes to mind as I read about Six Muslim Imams being detained on a flight outbound from Minnesota after passengers expressed concern over the Muslim men engaging in their ritual of evening prayers while on board the aircraft.

The men themselves were outraged, of course CAIR is outraged, and I wouldn't be surprised if we get Muslims burning airline executives in effigy, blah, blah, blah!

The real issue here is, was there an irrational fear of Muslims at work here? Answer... YES! Of course most normal Americans have some irrational fear of Muslims, why shouldn't they? Is it sad that these men can't pray on a plane before take off without being harassed? Of course! But it is not an outrage by any means. It is absolutely understandable given the acts perpetrated by fellow Muslims in our country and around the world that people would be afraid of ANYONE appearing to pray to Allah and dressed in Muslim clothing on board an airliner. I am sorry but what is that saying about the sins of the father? Same principle here, you (Muslims) are paying the price for the extremist idiots, period. Is it fair, probably not, is it right, nope. But it is justified and until there are prominent voices, loud voices, condemning radical Islam as apostate instead of rioting and destroying people's and property over a couple of questionable cartoons, the fear will remain and rightly so. It makes me feel safer to know that an Airline would take 6 men off a flight because they may or my not have been acting in a strange manner. It makes me feel safer still to know that they were Muslims and they WERE profiled as such in this case.

My advice to CAIR and organizations like it, or any Muslim who was offended by this, is to spend the energy you are wasting on being outraged about it on being outraged at your own brothers in faith who fuel this fear, who propagate the lies and hate that led to 9/11, who have no regard for human life or your peaceful way of life in the least. Then maybe we can talk!