A Messianic Jewish leader is saddened that because of political correctness, Muslims can be rewarded for behavior that would not be tolerated from any other group.
Recently a settlement was reached involving the so-called "flying imams," US Airways, and the FBI. On November 20, 2006, half a dozen Muslim clerics were kicked off a US Airways Minneapolis-to-Phoenix flight after engaging in behavior that alarmed passengers and crew members before takeoff. Authorities kicked the Muslims off the plane, believing they might have been testing safety procedures in a dry-run for a future hijacking attempt. Following the incident, the Council on American-Islamic Relations came to aid the imams and filed a suit. Both sides recently announced that an undisclosed out-of-court settlement had been reached. Jan Markell, founder and director of Minnesota-based Olive Tree Ministries, explains that the imams "got paid off." "That sends a message that because of our liberal courts and our political correctness and pro-Islam this and pro-Islam that, you can try to get away with all sorts of things if you're a Muslim in America," she argues. "Not every Muslim in America is planning on bowing down and praying in their local airport and praising Allah, scaring the daylights out of everyone. But a whole bunch of them did here in the Twin Cities a couple of years ago, and that story has finally come to a conclusion, but [it was] a very sad one." Markell says Muslims are growing increasingly bold in the United States.
Recently a settlement was reached involving the so-called "flying imams," US Airways, and the FBI. On November 20, 2006, half a dozen Muslim clerics were kicked off a US Airways Minneapolis-to-Phoenix flight after engaging in behavior that alarmed passengers and crew members before takeoff. Authorities kicked the Muslims off the plane, believing they might have been testing safety procedures in a dry-run for a future hijacking attempt. Following the incident, the Council on American-Islamic Relations came to aid the imams and filed a suit. Both sides recently announced that an undisclosed out-of-court settlement had been reached. Jan Markell, founder and director of Minnesota-based Olive Tree Ministries, explains that the imams "got paid off."
"That sends a message that because of our liberal courts and our political correctness and pro-Islam this and pro-Islam that, you can try to get away with all sorts of things if you're a Muslim in America," she argues. "Not every Muslim in America is planning on bowing down and praying in their local airport and praising Allah, scaring the daylights out of everyone. But a whole bunch of them did here in the Twin Cities a couple of years ago, and that story has finally come to a conclusion, but [it was] a very sad one." Markell says Muslims are growing increasingly bold in the United States.
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