Flying imams settlement

by Walter Olson on October 27, 2009

It “carries costs for air safety,” declares the headline of a USA Today editorial: “Payouts could chill crews from acting on reasonable suspicions.” Earlier here.

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1 nevins 10.27.09 at 3:42 pm

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.

2 Craig 10.27.09 at 7:27 pm

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!

3 Jerry Vandesic 10.27.09 at 11:10 pm

“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.

4 Melvin H. 10.28.09 at 1:39 am

Jerry V., I hope you are being sarcastic.

5 Hamilton Burger 10.28.09 at 11:34 pm

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

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