A police officer friend of mine once explained that in a traffic stop, they treat everyone as a possible threat because they have no idea who they are pulling over. It could be someone who had a bad day or just happen to have robbed a bank. Then, if they have even the slightest reason to worry, they call for backup. They prefer to err on the side of caution.

Air Marshals on the other hand, can’t call for backup at 30,000 feet. Then again, neither can Joe Passenger. If fear makes people more aware of their surroundings and personal safety, that’s a good thing. Police work under the same code.

Fred Taub on October 25, 2010 at 2:21 pm

If only more airlines made sentiments like this public, and then got boycotted by CAIR types and other belligerent Muslims, and then had the spineless Leftist Liberals chime in, then the rest of us could know which airlines were now relatively *safe*, and we could fly only the boycotted ones.

The liberals could work on spins as how it was their own fault when they get blown up by an Islamic terrorist, and leave the rest of sane world travelers in safety.

(Originally voiced by Ann Coulter a long time ago, but I don’t have the exact quote or source.
BTW, if anyone does, please post, Thanks.)

exdemexlib on October 25, 2010 at 2:22 pm

Yup.

We can never be sure what Muslims will do around infidels much less than when they’re around each other.

That’s an observation about their conduct that’s reasonable and sane and which our politically correct world prefers to avoid facing to preserve the fiction every one is equal – least of all in morality, deportment and manners.

Uhm – no, that’s not true. The reality of human nature is there are good people and evil people. And unless we stop the latter, good people will die. Its time to face the facts Muslims will inflict evil on good people when there’s no one to stop them.

I don’t want to have that happen to me. Or to Debbie Schlussel. Or to any one else. Juan Williams and the Air Marshal who wrote to Debbie do get it. Some people are still in denial. And they will get us all killed unless they wake up or we need to find a way to protect ourselves from them, too.

Passengers in Muslim Garb is more than just about a Hollywood movie, that sad to say, will in all likelihood, never get made. Its about our future – and how we’re going to deal with the threat Islam presents to us. And that future is now.

NormanF on October 25, 2010 at 2:29 pm

Last year just before Thanksgiving I was very nervous getting on my plane to Florida. I saw a young guy with his red neck scarf on that is similar to the Arafat garb who was looking around in a suspicious way, he left his luggage unattended for a while and I just couldn’t take it anymore. I reported him. I sat in the back of the waiting area and all of a sudden I am met by TSA people. While I wanted to be anonymous here I was being watched by all the passengers. I got really nervous because I knew he knew I had reported him. I was sweating bullets and I’m sure became flushed. They said they watched him on the camera and knew what I said was true. But they didn’t question him and let him on the plane. To my horror not only was he on the plane but he was sat in front of me. Just before we got off the plane in FL he took of his red scarf which I thought was very odd as it wasn’t a weather scarf. We sit and do nothing. It’s very scary.

LaurAyn on October 25, 2010 at 2:35 pm

I get nervous flying and having to go through the screening process and I’m not even Muslim…but at least they are doing something….but I agree it is a joke if they don’t profile. The thing about these terrorists/bombers most don’t dress in Muslim garb when they board a plane…these are the ones we really need to worry about.

freedom4usa on October 25, 2010 at 4:32 pm

There is problem now after USAir caved in to CAIR in the flying Imam lawsuit. if an Air Marshall takes an action based on a reasonable fear of someone in Muslim garb based on some activity that would not be noticed had they not been in Muslim garb, and it turns out to be a mistake, that Air Marshal will probably be sued. The same applies to a passenger who tries to report such suspicions (In the flying Imams case, CAIR actually tried to sue the passengers who reported their suspicions).

So much for taking preventative action.

We are all in even more danger because of the USAir cave in.

I_AM_ME on October 25, 2010 at 4:36 pm

It is amazing that we have to go through all of these contortions to spare the feelings of a group that is so utterly callous towards others.

Worry01 on October 25, 2010 at 7:41 pm

Curious.

Up is down, and down is up.

If a society is frozen into inaction by fear of hurting somebody’s feelings, how can it survive?

pitandpen on October 25, 2010 at 11:53 pm

The air marshals are “on it”; however, the psychotically aggressive potbellied pederasts and sexually abusive sadists who serve as TSA screeners under troglodyke Big Sis NapoleonTONTO must be fired, the agency incinerated and basalted over, and the creeps arrested and thoroughly PROSECUTED to the FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW!!

NVerdad on August 11, 2012 at 3:46 am

Howdy y’all…. what time’s the lynchin’ ? Gotta git my robes ‘an pointy hat back from the cleaners…

That’s what you sound like….

Saying that all ‘Muslim’ folk are potential threats or hate non-muslim folk is nothing more than sheer ignorance. The perpetrators of the horrific attacks on US soil were Muslim, but the defining and pertinent point was that they were Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is not a religion, it is a terrorist organisation. Same as the IRA or the Basque Separatists etc..

If we were to apply your definition of how to judge if someone is guilty of an act they haven’t even committed, why not say that all Germans, Japanese and Italians should be locked up forever because of WW2? ….. same rationale no?

Only a tiny fraction of the world’s Muslims actually follow or support the actions of AQ..

Get educated.

Bubba Jones on August 13, 2013 at 7:35 am