A Flying Leap of Faith

CAIR and the six imams who protested far too much are nothing more than a bunch of liars who sought to promote their radical agenda.

When the story first broke, the imams denied they chanted “Allah.” Yet, several witnesses in the police report say they did. The imams also claimed they were handcuffed and harassed by dogs. “Six imams. Six leaders in this country,” Shahin complained. “Six scholars in handcuffs.” But the police report puts the lie to both those claims, too.

Shahin also claimed that a local FBI agent pleaded with US Airways to sell the Saintly Six imams another plane ticket, telling airline reps that the government had “no problem” with the men. “Never happened,” says an FBI spokesman in Minneapolis.

Shahin and his fellow imams, who were educated in Sudan and Saudi Arabia, says he and the imams are all moderates who love the U.S. and denounce terror. He doubts Muslims were responsible for 9/11.

“We have been asked by God and by the prophet Muhammad to respect all human life,” he said. “The Quran is very clear, to save one life he saves all human life, and whoever kills one person he kills all humankind, and that is what Islam is all about.”

But Shahin engages in more dissembling. He leaves out a key part of the verse (5:32) that condones killing those who murder fellow Muslims or spread “mischief in the land.” Mischief is defined as “treason against Allah,” and the very next verse calls for guilty infidels to be beheaded.

Shahin himself has ties to terrorism. He served (unknowingly, he now says) as an agent and fundraiser for a Hamas front. He ran a mosque in Tucson, Ariz., attended by several al-Qaida operatives including the hijacker who flew the plane into the Pentagon. And he now runs an imam federation that counts an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing among its trustees.

Shahin also teaches at an Islamic school fully accredited by an Egyptian university tied to the dangerous Muslim Brotherhood.

For those that aren't up to speed on the various Islamic groups, the Muslim Brotherhood is the tie that binds many of the jihadi groups and terrorist organizations together. It has chapters in countries all through the Middle East. The Egyptian branch was behind the assassination of Anwar Sadat for his peace treaty with Israel. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood got into a fight with Hafez Assad, who returned the favor by wiping the town of Hama off the map - killing 25,000 Brotherhood supporters in 1982.

Muslim Brotherhood theology is the underpinning for groups like al Qaeda. Don't be fooled by the fact that some Brotherhood chapters have engaged in the political process. It is a means to an end - implementing Islamic law as they deem sufficient. Terror is a means to that end.