Mere Rhetoric: Pelosi To Take Stance On The Side Of Airline Imams?

This can't be true, can it?

Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is co-sponsoring the "End Racial Profiling Act". The proposed bill is said to have been prompted by the recent removal of six Muslim imams, who are reported to have acted in a decidedly provocative manner, from a US Airways’ flight. Pelosi said: "Since September 11th, many Muslim Americans have been subjected to searches at airports and other locations based upon their religion and national origin, without any credible information linking individuals to criminal conduct. Racial and religious profiling is fundamentally un-American and we must make it illegal."

The imams put on a big show of praying beforehand and sat in a pattern strongly reminiscent of the hijacking pattern that the 9/11 murderers used. They were overheard verbally attacking President Bush and American policy. Multiple internal investigations by US Air have confirmed that it was reasonable to perceive the imams as a threat - and that the imams are lying about what they said and did.

This bill is designed to punish airline officials for erring on the side of caution in protecting themselves and their passengers. This is what the Democrats are leading with? Really? If The Conservative Voice didn't have a quote on this question, we'd be highly suspicious that this was true. But they do have a quote. Ergo...

Previously: What? No Snark About Imams Calling For Muslims To Boycott Airlines?, OneJerusalem.org Conference Call: Will Marshall, President of the Progressive Policy Institute, Democrats Not So Much With The Cleaning Up Government Corruption

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