Comments on: Flying imams settlement

By: Hamilton Burger

Hamilton Burger — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:34:09 +0000

Unless the only reason the imams were detained was their Muslim faith – which was clearly not the case- Craig’s comment is inane.

By: Melvin H.

Melvin H. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:39:05 +0000

Jerry V., I hope you are being sarcastic.

By: Jerry Vandesic

Jerry Vandesic — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:10:55 +0000

“A passenger … said one …. expressed fundamentalist views.”

I sure hope this is overturned and we can start kicking all those fundamentalist Christians off of our planes. They are a real threat to this country, and we need to keep them away from us normal Americans. Thank god.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:27:51 +0000

Let’s see, 5,000,000,000 people flying on US planes since 1999 (based on a low ball number of 500,000,000 per year, see http://tinyurl.com/ykbk6hp for current statistics)

Let’s say .1% of those people were Muslims. (estimates of up to 2% of US population, but we’ll go low)

So 5,000,000 Muslims flying since 1999.

~20 involved in 9/11

1 involved in flight 990

So at least 4,999,979 Muslims have managed to fly without hijacking a plane. Seems like we are getting lucky, ban them all!

By: nevins

nevins — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:42:32 +0000

Let’s see, 5 planes hijacked* by suicidal muslims, most all Egyptian, and crashed with all aboard. None hijacked by anyone else. Cause for even a little bit of profiling? Naaaahhhh… couldn’t be.

*includes Egypt air flight 990 in 1999.