Works for me.

Let's have a trial and find out.

You are free to protest Christians praying, so please do so. Of course I can't remember seeing one doing so in public, much less less at an airport departure gate, or on board an aircraft. Excluding graduation ceremonies, football games and other quasi offical events.

I do confess that I personally have prayed several times, privately, on both military and commercial flights.

All airlines that I have ever flown have no problem with you changing seats AFTER the door is closed and everyone is on board. I used to sleep like a baby on red eyes from LA to NYC as well as the old Pan Am 707 flights into Europe.

Doing so before that causes confusions. I once had to ask a UAL attendant to remove the person who had chosen to sit in my preassigned bulkhead window seat, and I have seen it happen to others on other flights.

The issue is, of course, the fact that Moslems are subject to a more rigorous examination than others  due to the events of 9/11, etc. If the Imams don't understand that then they are not intelligent. Since I think they are intelligent, I have to say they were engaged in an "in your face" action and they lost, or more likely, were successful in getting the negative attention they wanted.

You may feel free to condem NW and society in general.

"The earth is now home to about 1.4 billion Muslims, many of whom believe that one day you and I will either convert to Islam, live in subjugation to a Muslim caliphate, or be put to death for our unbelief."

This is an accurate statement of an Islamic article of faith; but so too is this statement:

"The earth is now home to about 1.3 billion Roman Catholics, many of whom believe that one day you and I will either convert to Catholicism, live in subjugation to Holy Mother Church, or be banished to the depths of hell for all eternity."

It's accurate to say that most Catholics "believe" this statement, but actually most Catholics, particularly American Catholics, might likely diminish the importance of this statement as "anti-social", or "needlessly divisive", or as a vestige of ancient Catholic dogma no longer relevant.
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Similarly, most American Muslims would also recognize the historic accuracy of Harris' statement above as a matter of dogma; but I suggest they would likewise deny its importance to the contemporary practice of their Islamic faith. It is an extreme minority (Islamists) like Sayyid Qutb, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Osma bin Laden, who cherry-pick the Kuran to justify the bloody flag of fundamentalism.
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The CIA estimates that 1% of the U.S. population is Muslim -- about 2.5 million Americans organized in about one thousand mosques across the country. Isn't it remarkable that there has been no orchestrated incidents of Muslim violence in the United States, no mass protests, no act of organized terror perpetrated by Islamic Americans?

Shouldn't we attribute the fact that there has been no terrorist act committed in the U.S. since 9/11, at least in apart, to the peaceful nature of Islamic American communities and their respect for U.S. law?

--Link

Ya know, when I was a young kid I had flaming red hair. It seemed every time I was involved in any hijinks, especially at school, I got busted because of my easily-identifiable hair.

In fact, many times I wasn't even directly involved, but since the teachers could pick me out of the crowd from way across the schoolyard, I was toast even though I didn't do anything wrong.

The wise one would learn from this experience not only to be humble by maintaining a low profile, but would also have learned compassion for others who were singled out and oppressed because of an arbitrary characteristic.

Oh, fer sure, that makes everything alright. We should all always yield to bullies of every stripe for any reason or any offense, real, imagined, or manufactured out of whole cloth.

I would think a review of history, even a cursory one, would show that more people have died in the name of Christ than for any other single reason in history. And it's too late for them to disavow the violence.

And why? Religious bigotry and xenophobia and an overwhelming conviction that the Christian god is the only god.

Christian extremist terrorism

• October 2, 2004 - Christian terrorist group kills 44 Hindus, wounds 118 in Northeast India.

• January 16, 1997 - Christian Identity terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph bombs a gay nightclub.

• July 27, 1996 - Christian Identity terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph bombs Centennial Olympic Park. Kills 1, wounds 111.

• 1983 - Posse Comitatus militia member Gordon Kahl kills two Federal marshals in North Dakota. Three others are wounded.

• 1969-2001 - over 3000 people are killed in Ireland and the United Kingdom as a result of bombings and other violent acts between the predominently Roman Catholic Irish nationalists on one side, and the predominently Protestant Unionists and secular British Crown forces on the other. More than 1800 of those killed in "The Troubles" are civilians, many the victims of sectarian attacks.

• 1940s - Terrorist organization Christian Identity is formed on the West Coast of the United States. Followers believe Armageddon will take place as a race war between Aryans, the "pure" people, against Jews, Muslims, and non-whites.

Eric Rudolph, for example, engaged in terrorist activities closely associated with Christian terrorism, such as the targeting of abortion clinics and the bombing of a gay nightclub; also, Rudolph had been suspected to be associated with the Christian Identity organization. While Rudolph has himself denied such associations, writing that he "prefers Nietzsche to the Bible", he has clearly said "I was born a Catholic, and with forgiveness I hope to die one."

Many abortion opponents attempt to blame these acts of violence on individuals who have little regard for human life and groups which they view are separate from the pro-life movement or any Christian church.

Christian groups with terrorist cells:

• Christian Identity movement
  
• Freedomites (also Svobodniki or Sons of Freedom, Canada, 1902-present)
  
• Army of God right wing terrorist group
  

7. There is no special link between Islam and terrorism. Most major religions have produced some form of terrorism, and many terrorist groups have professed atheism. If there is a particular tenacity in Islamist forms of terrorism today, this is a product not of Islamic scripture but of the current historical circumstance that many Muslims live in places of intense political conflict. Contemporary Islamist movements that resort to terrorism are, however, often strengthened in their appeal by the fact that they want to link a faith-based activism, intended to "transform" society, with ethnic and nationalist causes. Most other terrorist groups have not combined their intentions in this way. For instance, the IRA does not have "transformational" aims, as Richardson puts it, but rather territorial ones.

Most Muslims are not terrorists, but - the vast majority of terrorists are Muslims.  

Somebody toss this poor man a textbook on probability.

And never mind Iraq and American "incitement" of Muslims.

As to Ireland, that stopped being a religious struggle eons ago - it was a civil war between loyalists to the crown and loyalists to Ireland.  The roots go back to the reformation, but religion stopped being a driving force for it long ago.  

'Eons ago', eh? You don't history, let alone history regarding this conflict "between loyalists."

Second - When morons like Eric Rudolph said they were acting in the name of God, Christian ministers far and wide condemned it.  Remind me again where to find any Islamic condemnation of acts of terror?

And WHO condemned Mr. Rudolph? Certainly not those involved in the 'prolife movement' for whom Mr. Rudolph performed an act of heroism.

It's a short list compared to the Islamic one.

Two years ago a dozen Syrian men caused panic aboard a Northwest Airlines flight by passing bags to each other as they used the lavatory. As the plane prepared to land, they rushed to the back and front of the plane speaking in Arabic.

You speak of the 9-11 attacks. Those guys sure weren't praying or doing anything to attract attention to themselves. Richard Reid was only detected when he tried to set fire to his shoe; now that's suspicious.

Northwest should simply say that they didn't want to carry people who act outside what their crew and other passengers think is the norm...

Wow, reminds me of other groups that were rounded up and lynched or gassed because they were not considered normal human beings ergo a threat to civilization. Some things never seem to change.

Separate bathrooms too, or should we just let Haliburton build some more camps for anyone that you choose to put into your bedwetter fantasies.

Based on a ratio of 1/1896 I think we'd better lock down the whold damn country and attack everyone else in the world.