I heard on the radio this morning (KFI) that in the wake of the recent alarm over Muslims praying at a Giants game New York is going to add a special Muslim prayer area to the stadium. The original controversy started when:
The men said they looked for a clean area to pray, near the ticket scanners, but not in the way of incoming fans. They chose what looked like a concrete wall, in sight of stadium workers and others.But the men said they didn't find out until yesterday from the media that they had prostrated themselves in prayer near the main air duct and food preparation area. That area has since been fenced off.
"It had everything to do with where they were and nothing to do with who they were," said Special Agent Steve Siegel of the FBI's New Jersey office. "You had concerned fans who walked by and saw these gentlemen proceed to an area that was not normally traveled. They alerted security guards. ... We'd rather follow 10,000 leads that go nowhere instead of miss the one that might go somewhere."
Right, and if little Jimmy wandered into the food prep area I'm sure he also would have been grilled on his relationship with Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman.
"You know the blind sheik?" Khalifa said one agent asked him, referring to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted of engineering the 1993 World Trade Center bombing."I said to him that's not even a smart question. You guys took my ID. You know I'm 27. When was the blind sheik around? I was 14, 15?"
These Muslims were definitely detained in part because their attire and actions made them look suspicious, and I don't really have a problem with that. It's a fact that 99% of terrorists are young Muslim males. Sorry.
Anyway, I'll be curious to see how New York football fans deal with a Muslim prayer area in the stadium. Maybe Christians can get a chapel installed, too.
The next time there is a serial killer running loose, you of course won't mind if they detain white males for no good reason...after all 99% of serial killers are white males.
Frankly, I would have preferred it if the Meadowlands had established a strict policy of "no Muslims." It might have been difficult to enforce, but merely proclaiming it would have made it obvious that any Muslims found anywhere in the stadium were there to do harm. Not that that's such a stretch of the imagination when we're talking about Muslims.
Persons who feel that's a harsh assessment should remember that Muslims are taught that it's their religious duty:
1) To subjugate the entire non-Muslim world;
2) To lie about it.
Manish: From every cop show I've seen, that's the general strategy they follow. It doesn't bother me.
FWP: I'm not sure that would have been legal, since I bet the stadium is at least partly publically funded.
White males end up being suspects and even questioned, but they are NEVER detained for years and years with no due process. You, of course, wouldn't mind personally being detained for several years in the name of pursuing a serial killer.
Hey Francis...don't you think that the Meadowlands should have a no Christians policy? After all, Christians are taught that Jews are evil and that they should be exterminated. And we should always judge the adherents of a religion by the most extreme members of it.
It might not be legal, Michael, but I can dream, can't I?
PS: How do you like your new troll? And when shall we start the betting pool on how long it'll be before he starts condemning Christians as such?