That post was getting a little long, but I thought these two responses were very good. They sort of sum up the situation we are in.
Mona Charen: What happened was a shame, but necessary
http://www.startribune.com/562/story/833103.html (full article)
When passengers see six Arab men praying, talking animatedly in Arabic (a fellow passenger understood Arabic and was one of those who contacted a flight attendant), and then boarding an airplane and sitting in different places, I wonder what goes through their minds. Is it: "I sure don't like Muslims. Think I'll just harass and annoy them"? Or could it possibly be: "Oh dear God, this is what the 9/11 hijackers must have looked like"?
Is it discrimination? Well, of course it is. But that cannot be the end of the discussion. We are so robotic in America whenever the word "discrimination" is used that we shut down thought and genuflect in the direction of whoever is complaining. But the proper question is not whether it is discrimination but whether it is justified.
Ahmed Tharwat: Imams at airport should have known better
http://www.startribune.com/562/story/840610.html (full article)
It does not really matter to me if overzealous passengers or paranoid US Airways pilots demonstrated their cultural incompetence on board. What truly bothers me about this incident is that it appears to be not a clash of civilizations or cultures, but a clash of stupidity. From the common-sense view, the way those imams behaved and looked at the airport is part of the clash.
Any outraged Muslims should be aware that in a post-9/11 Islamic-phobic country, Muslims with huge untrimmed beards should just not pray in the boarding area at an airport. Period.
The airport was calm though (well as calm as an airport can be on Thanksgiving weekend), there were no protesters, no flags, nothing, just your usual security. However, local Muslims have asked the airport to put in a prayer room.
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