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(CBS) QUEENS Jet Blue Airlines apologized late Wednesday to dozens of passengers who were kept sitting on planes at New York’s JFK Airport for 10 hours or more without ever taking off.

The airline said half of its 550 flights were cancelled because of a winter storm that also caused massive traffic and transit delays throughout the Tri-State area.

Ten JetBlue flights, however, were loaded with passengers on board. Some made it to the runways only to run into icing problems that kept them grounded. Some of the planes at the gate became frozen to the ground and passengers weren’t able to disembark.

One couple told CBS 2 News they thought they were about to honeymoon in Aruba. Others were dreaming of the sun and warm waters of Cancun. Instead, many said they felt like hostages being held on the tarmac.

“We had very limited toilet usage while we were on the plane,” said Elizabeth Regale, who logged 10 hours of what she described as hell on a trip to nowhere.

“To sit on a plane for that long to be pulled into a gate for nine hours was horrible,” said another passenger.

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By Mona Charen - Townhall.com 

Six imams got on a plane in Minneapolis. Accounts vary, but it seems that they were speaking in Arabic before boarding of their disgust with the U.S. war in Iraq and with American policy in general. One was heard to declare that he would do whatever was necessary to fulfill his obligations under the Koran. Another repeated, “Allah, Allah.” Once aboard, they aroused suspicion by requesting seat-belt extenders that they did not appear to require and took seats not together but scattered throughout the plane.

Several people contacted the flight attendants, and the men were asked to leave.

Now comes the nonsense. The Associated Press declares that this is a case of “flying while Muslim,” and a TV anchor compares the imams to Rosa Parks. Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations denounced the incident as an example of “Islamophobia,” adding, “We are concerned that crew members, passengers and security personnel may have succumbed to fear and prejudice based on stereotyping of Muslims and Islam.”

The Department of Homeland Security has announced that its Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is opening an inquiry into the incident. And talk radio is abuzz. “Would they have done the same to a group of priests?” asked one talk radio host. “Or rabbis?”

Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that the person who was overheard chanting “Allah, Allah” was actually saying something else. Let’s go ahead and allow that there was nothing suspicious about the request for seat-belt extenders, as several of the imams were a bit rotund. Let’s even agree that the six imams were “victims” of discrimination.

It’s a shame. But it’s absolutely necessary. It cannot have been pleasant to be denied the opportunity to fly, to be singled out, to be embarrassed in front of a plane full of strangers. But this knee-jerk reaction to the word “discrimination” is completely out of place in this discussion.

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 all genuflect in the direction of whoever is complaining. But the proper question is not whether it is discrimination but whether it is justified.

Of course passengers would not be nervous in the presence of six priests or six rabbis. Neither of these groups has any history of blowing up innocent people. Nor do Americans despise those who pray. In fact, uniquely among Western democracies, we are great fans of religion.

But Islam is problematic. While we would love to think that Islam is as pacific as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or Hinduism, the facts suggest otherwise. Time and again, terrorists who have committed or attempted to commit murder on a large scale have done so after becoming serious Muslims.

This is a hijacking of a great faith you say? Maybe so. I’m inclined to believe it since I do not think that a billion people would be drawn to a religion of hate. But that much having been said, the haters within Islam are certainly having a heck of a run at the moment. Maybe they are only 10 percent of the worldwide total of the umma, but that still leaves us with 100 million very religious fellows who believe they have divine sanction to blow us up.

One final note, if Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, is correct, one of the imams ejected from that plane, Omar Shahin, was involved with the Islamic charity Kind Hearts, which has had its assets frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department because of its connections to the terrorist group Hamas.

For any Muslim looking folks who happen to peep PPP and in case ole Snoop has not said this before, if you are a towel head looking dude and you get on a plane chanting some crazy shit I can’t understand and especially if there are a group of you people, I’m calling security and if your ass don’t get escorted off the plane then I’m getting the fuck off. I don’t trust you, none of you I don’t give a shit if you do call me a racist, prejudice whatever.
When you lose the persona of blowing shit up I may change my mind.
If you have a problem with that you can kiss my black ass.
I’m all for racial profiling.

From Neal Bortz 

AIRLINE PASSENGERS TAKING CONTROL

Since it has become apparent that governments around the world aren’t really going to do anything about the threat posed on airplanes by Islamic terrorism, the airline passengers have taken control of things.  Sadly, the TSA (and its counterparts all over the globe) don’t want to engage in racial profiling.

But the people who have to fly on these airplanes…that put their lives on the line and actually want to live until they reach their next destination, are beginning to take action.  Two recent incidents illustrate this perfectly.  The first involves a situation that took place on a flight last week from Spain to the UK. 

Two Muslim students were acting in a suspicious manner.  The news coverage doesn’t say exactly what they were doing, but it was enough to bother the passengers…and that’s when it started.  Some of the passengers informed the flight crew of what was taken place, then a bunch of the passengers stormed off the plane.  The suspicious fliers were removed from the plane at gunpoint and the flight was on its way.  The kids turned out to be clean, but who cares.  Since nearly every airplane hijacker in the last 30 years has been an Arab Muslim, these passengers were simply playing the odds.

The second case involves something that took place yesterday.  A Northwest flight from Amsterdam to India was escorted back to the airport by Dutch F-16’s and 12 passengers were arrested for suspicious behavior.  These passengers were of Middle Eastern origin and were passing around a cell phone on the plane, something that’s not allowed.  The other fliers weren’t having it, so the plane was sent back and those in question were marched off by air marshals.

The message from government regarding airline security has been clear:  because of political correctness, they are not going to do anything to prevent a repeat of 9/11.  It’s nice to see the passengers taking the matters into their own hands.