http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm

I dont blame the passengers. It is only my kind that has created this impression of folks that are dressed and talk like me.

I would scratch my head and ask myself if my family gave others ammunition to label us the way they did?

I would try to rate myself and my families reaction to the incidence. What could we have done better? Did we act with patience or react with fire?

I would ask the clergyman in my local mosque. Mr. Mulana XYZ, what steps are we taking as a community to avoid such stereotypes. I dont mean educating the passengers types about my kind….But about my kind trying to fit in the US of A?

I think that several of us comment and post to share experiences and knowledge and occasionally to “vent” because a post is provocative (well done!).

So, sometimes it feels like you got smacked in the face when someone comes back with an over the top or hateful/juvenile response or any response that isn’t a kudo.

Some people complain to you about it and some people don’t.

Now back on point:

Is this isolated incident really a fair indictment of our nation? (Eg.: Haven’t airlines treated people of all races like shit for years?)

Do you recall your refusing to let people use PEBO’s middle name? Do you think that it’s possible that as overly sensitive one way as these folks who complained at the airport were – maybe you are overly sensitive the other way? Of course not!

WCA – No one is stopping you from speaking! But I do not blame them for calling you on what you’ve said here. Sometimes I agree with you, but in this case, I think you response is really ignorant sounding.

I will look for the other video that i saw, but which wasn’t available when i posted this.

In that video, the man — the tax attorney — speaks at length. It is obvious that the guy is a BRAIN. His vocabulary alone is wonderful. It could be that they are all so intellectually inclined that they were jabbering amongst themselves utterly unaware that what they were saying might affect casual listeners.

During a discussion of discrimination you’re threatening workingclass artist’s being able to voice an opinion.

I would have expected better from you Susan.

BTW: Some of us had loved ones who were killed on 9/11 and never noticed this Muslim family giving press conferences about how wrong that was.

Does anyone know if there is a Muslim airline they could use which might make them feel more comfortable in the future?

“Like it or not, these are the time we live in,” someone posted above. “Better safe than sorry.” These are slogans that pass for thinking, just like “Change we can believe in.”

In the times I’m living in, I can’t recall the last time a group of Muslims with their children who were overheard talking of safety on an airplane went on to commit a terrorist act. When, for that matter, referring to another comment, did an 80 year old granny? Yet we are supposed to feel good about the TSA because they harassed her just as much as Ahmed Mohammed from Dubai?

What this incident illustrates above all is the willingness of people to let others do their “thinking” for them. Which suits the forces of control just fine. How many lives could be saved across this country with the investment in public health programs of a fraction of the amount now allocated for “security?” How many fatalities do we accept every year in other modes of transportation as the cost of “the times we live in?” Why not zero tolerance for highway fatalities, too? Standing up to terrorists is one thing. Diminishing our capacities as thinking human beings is another. We are steadily becoming an irrational society. And that means that the fanatics are winning.