Muslim scholar calls for a boycott of US Airways

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By Bob Von Sternberg and Pamela Miller
McClatchy Newspapers
(MCT)

MINNEAPOLIS - ...

"This was humiliating, the worst moment of my life," Shahin said Tuesday, a day after he and five fellow Muslim imams were escorted off a US Airways jet at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. "To practice your faith and pray is a crime in America?" he said ...

Locally, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas and the Somali Justice Advocacy Center questioned the detention.

Bushra Khan, spokeswoman for CAIR's Arizona chapter, said, "All these men did was pray, and it was misunderstood. The bottom line is that they were Middle Eastern-looking men . . . and that scares some people." ...

The religious leaders were heading home to Phoenix after a three-day North American Imams Federation conference in Bloomington, Minn ...

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[demigoddess]

1. I'm all for that, they were treated really badly. I am glad they finally

agree with me, I have been boycotting since they started this stupid stuff and I will not set foot on a plane until some people wise up and get over this paranoia.