It has been pointed out to me that the Imams were asked to come off the plane but refused...
When an officer asks you to do something, you should do it, plain and simple. Can you say the word "provocation"? As long as Muslims are trying to explode their shoes on Trans-Atlantic flights, planning to use baby bottles as bombs from London to New York, and crashing jets into buildings, we will see more instances like this one. The six imams might as well get used to it.
This is a very odd kind of political behavior, wouldn't you say? Let's just project a little here: Act oddly for a purpose, to elicit a response from which you can rally the umma, many of whose members have no compunction about defending the dignity of their most vile co-religionists, all as part of an emotional pathology, all to help the cause. Reported from Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch: Omar Shahin, one of the imams removed from the plane, has links to Osama bin Laden and Hamas.
This is starting to smell of a deliberate act.
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Yep, there's always that nagging question:
What really happened?
One version, is a horrible miscarriage of justice. Second, maybe it's civil disobedience. Third? You fill in the blank.
I'd like to offer my view of the difference between right and wrong. A couple of examples:
You are on your way to silat class and you decide take the two-lane back road. You come around a curve and some fool in a pickup truck coming the other way is passing a line of cars. He's in your lane and you can see he isn't going to make it before he plows head-on into you.
You have the legal right-of-way. Do you hold to it? Put your family, yourself and your car at risk? Or do you hit your brakes and look for somewhere to go?
If you have any sense of responsibility, that's a no-brainer.
If you are, by God, not giving up the road to some asshole, to show that you are right -- to make a point -- then you bear the consequences.
There are times when you have the both the legal and moral right to do something but by so doing, you will get dinged. If you know that, it's at the least partially on you if you proceed.
Back when I was a private eye, I used to sit in my car for hours doing surveillance. More than a few times, local cops rolled up on me. I was usually parked legally and I was working, not loitering, but they didn't know that and sometimes they came to see who I was unsnapping holster straps and with their hands on their guns.
I never said, "None of your business pal!" when they asked who I was. I tried to see how many times I could fit "sir" into my response.
One of Perry's Rules: Don't spit in the eye of a man with his hand on a gun when you don't have one.
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