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Very interesting that they included the passengers as defendants.
foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261341,00.html
Imams’ Case Not Flying Away
By Father Jonathan Morris
There is new and fascinating information in the “flying Imams” case. At the moment that I am going to press with this article, the media has all but overlooked the significance of these developments.
On March 13, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, announced to great fanfare a new lawsuit against US Airways and the U.S. government. The suit claims discrimination against the six Muslim clerics who were removed from a plane before take-off last November on account of “suspicious behavior.” In fine print, and never once mentioned in their press release, lawyers for the Imams also named the passengers who reported the suspicious behavior to security officials, as defendants in the case.
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But on Friday, March 26, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a public law firm known for its fight for religious freedom for people of all faiths — including Muslims — made a bombshell announcement. Instead of joining the Imams in their claims of religious discrimination, as would be expected, Becket Fund president, Kevin Hasson, said his law firm is offering to waive legal fees to any of the passengers named as defendants in the suit.
“It is most certainly the right of ordinary citizens, and indeed, their duty — especially in wartime — to report their suspicions to authority”, Hasson said in his open letter to Mr. Awad.
Hasson continued:
We have never before opposed someone’s claim for religious discrimination. But this tactic of threatening suit against ordinary citizens is so far removed from the tradition of civil rights litigation in the United States that we must oppose it to defend the good name of religious liberty itself.”
foxnews.com/story/0,2933,261341,00.html
Imams’ Case Not Flying Away
By Father Jonathan Morris
There is new and fascinating information in the “flying Imams” case. At the moment that I am going to press with this article, the media has all but overlooked the significance of these developments.
On March 13, the Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, announced to great fanfare a new lawsuit against US Airways and the U.S. government. The suit claims discrimination against the six Muslim clerics who were removed from a plane before take-off last November on account of “suspicious behavior.” In fine print, and never once mentioned in their press release, lawyers for the Imams also named the passengers who reported the suspicious behavior to security officials, as defendants in the case.
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But on Friday, March 26, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a public law firm known for its fight for religious freedom for people of all faiths — including Muslims — made a bombshell announcement. Instead of joining the Imams in their claims of religious discrimination, as would be expected, Becket Fund president, Kevin Hasson, said his law firm is offering to waive legal fees to any of the passengers named as defendants in the suit.
“It is most certainly the right of ordinary citizens, and indeed, their duty — especially in wartime — to report their suspicions to authority”, Hasson said in his open letter to Mr. Awad.
Hasson continued:
We have never before opposed someone’s claim for religious discrimination. But this tactic of threatening suit against ordinary citizens is so far removed from the tradition of civil rights litigation in the United States that we must oppose it to defend the good name of religious liberty itself.”