Tuesday, November 28, 2006

HEAD IN THE SAND


The removal of some Muslim religious leaders from a Minneapolis flight last week is still making news Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, called removing the imams an act of Islamophobia and compared it to racism against blacks. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, Texas Democrat, said the September 11 terrorist attacks "cannot be permitted to be used to justify racial profiling, harassment and discrimination of Muslim and Arab Americans." "Understandably, the imams felt profiled, humiliated, and discriminated against by their treatment," she said Well Sheila you can stick your head in the sand all you like, but I don't want to be an unwilling participant in a terrorist plot, profile all you like. By the way Sheila How many acts of terror have been carried out recently by non-Muslim westerners