Civil Rights Case
Judge approves trial for Muslims removed from US Airways flight
A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group today hailed what it termed a "major victory" in the case of six imams, or Islamic religious leaders, who say their civil and religious rights were violated in 2006 when they were removed from a US Airways flight in Minnesota.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said US District Judge Ann Montgomery today denied several motions to dismiss the case and ruled that a law passed by congress after the incident did not grant protection from lawsuits to those sued by the imams.
Judge Montgomery also ruled that the actions of the imams prior to their flight did not justify their detention. She noted that the imams were subjected to "extreme fear and humiliation of being falsely identified as dangerous terrorists."
The ruling stated: "Unquestionably the events of 9/11 changed the calculus in the balance American society chooses to make, especially in airport settings, between liberty and security ... but when a law enforcement officer exercises the power of the sovereign over its citizens, she or he has a responsibility to operate within the bounds of the Constitution and cannot raise the specter of 9/11 as an absolute exception to that responsibility."
In a statement, the imams' attorneys Omar T. Mohammedi and Frederick J. Goetz said, "The judge's ruling demonstrates clearly that the flying public does not lose their constitutional rights when they board an aircraft or step into an airport."
"We thank all those who have supported the imams until now and ask for the continued support of all those who reject profiling and value religious freedom, tolerance, and mutual understanding," said CAIR national executive director Nihad Awad.
CAIR is America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
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Reading the comments on this article not only shock me but sadden me to a point where it has become extremely important for us to understand the basis of Islam and its teachings. We are an extremely tolerant religon and many mischieve makers including American regimes have demoinized us. Therefore a more educated commentary would be key to reaching out and creating that tolerance amongst us all.
CAIR is not a "civil rights" group...they are a Saudi-financed organization of apologists for radical Islamists!! They are also an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror-financing case of Holy Land Foundation, which was found GUILTY of terror-financing!!
CAIR is also out of touch with mainstream, freedom-loving American Muslims, whose membership numbers have dropped drastically in the past several years, but the radicals at CAIR aren't worried because their money comes from radical Wahhabist Muslims in Saudi Arabia!!!
Unfortunately this judge is flat out wrong, just like the Federal Judge who would not allow the 9-11 families to sue a complicit Saudi Arabian government. Our 3 branches of government seem to be absolutely clueless about Islam & jihad. Judge Montgomery is wrong to allow this premeditated LEGAL jihad to continue by these imams who planned their disruptive & erratic behavior to justify their detention they carried out in the first place. This is NOT about religious freedom, tolerance, and mutual understanding when in Islamic countries (i.e. Saudi Arabia; Qu'ran, Surah 9:5) one could literally lose their head by trying to spread Christianity by simply handing out The Holy Bible. CAIR is just part of the Islamic public relations propaganda machine of the Saudi Arabian government. For crying out loud the sword of jihad is proudly displayed for all to see on the flag of Saudi Arabia & claiming Jesus Christ is God who rose from the dead can get your head chopped off in Saudi Arabia. Real eyes realize real lies, so I hope our 3 branches of government will realize Shariah Law is life-threatening to our Common Law & our Constitution & Islam is a life-threatening to America's Heritage of Judeo-Christian Western Civilization. The US Supreme Court should remember its own unanimous & never overturned opinion on February 29, 1892 concerning Holy Trinity Church when the Court said, "... This is a Christian nation...the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of Christianity as the rule of their faith and practice, and to scandalize the author of these doctrines is not only, in a religious point of view, extremely impious, but, even in respect to the obligations due to society, is a gross violation of decency and good order. . . . The free, equal, and undisturbed enjoyment of religious opinion, whatever it may be, and free and decent discussions on any religious subject, is granted and secured; but to revile, with malicious and blasphemous contempt, the religion professed by almost the whole community is an abuse of that right. Nor are we bound by any expressions in the Constitution, as some have strangely supposed, either not to punish at all, or to punish indiscriminately the like attacks upon THE RELIGION OF MAHOMET or of the Grand Lama, and for this plain reason, that the case assumes that we are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of those IMPOSTORS."
We have every right to profile the very people who want to kill us and make this an Islamic country. Their actions prove that they were pushing this issue to force this to happen so they could sue. Every time they win, we lose. Another anti-America judge. Wake up America! Stay informed because there are so many Islamic actions taking place in our country and our government is ignoring them.
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