Will no one rid us of troublesome Imams and their wicked, wicked seat belt extensions

A certain Frenchman whom I suspect may not be fully committed to living a heterosexual lifestyle writes:

It's one thing for US Airways to remove six Muslim clerics from a flight yesterday because passengers complained that they saw the Imams praying. Okay, I'm not sure what you do when passengers start freaking out. But it's quite another thing for US Airways to refuse to let one of the Imams buy ANOTHER ticket today when he tried to re-book his flight...

Get that? The security incident was that the guy prayed in an airport. He's an Imam, that's the Muslim equivalent of a priest. He prayed. So now he can't fly on US Airways ever again.

Thank the Lord the God-fearing bloggers of the patriotsphere are on hand to tell us the rest of the story. Jawa reports that the imams were a little too intent about getting their prayers in:

One of the imams was heard saying that he would do whatever is necessary to fulfill his commitment to the Qur'an, witnesses told police, Hogan said. Other witnesses said some of the imams were repeating "Allah, Allah," he said.
And a couple of the imams asked for seat-belt extensions, even though it did not appear they needed them, Hogan said.

Lileks suggests that at an earlier meeting, the imams may have prayed too loudly about being persecuted:

I was talking today with a guy I know; he'd been at a suburban hotel for an annual company sales meeting. The regional manager was having a difficult time speaking, since the party in the next conference room was praying about as loudly as is humanly possible, and had followed the prayers with a speaker who expressed in rather . . . forceful terms the depth of Muslim oppression in America.

Flopping Aces declares that the threat the imams posed was obvious:

I mean how many warning signals do people need? They were overheard talking amongst themselves in which they spewed anti-American tirades. They conducted a prayer ceremony in the terminal. They all went to individual seats and boarded individually instead of together. They made a bizarre request for seatbelt extensions.

Biggus Dickus thinks it's all a set up:

He's a peach, he is. I think this was a setup, a deliberate attempt to engineer an incident.

Our Lady of the Concentration Camps uses the incident to point out that the Demoslamunitofascists in Congress want us all to die:

Even as more and more passengers and airlines take reality-based preemptive and precautionary measures to prevent the next 9/11--and even as the headlines bring us daily evidence of al Qaeda's continued airport/airplane terrorist plots--we have a Democratic Congress ready to criminalize airport investigations of any Muslims at any time for any security reasons.

And Dinocrat assures us that this kind of thing wouldn't happen if Congress passed a tort reform bill:

We said that the recent airline incident looked like lawsuit shopping to us, and we were right. So the "middle eastern men" we wrote about below were imams, some of which have ties to Islamic terrorism -- and all of whom no doubt have ties to disgusting American lawyers who will be filing suit on their behalf.

Update: Their "anti-American" rantings appear to have been very serious. According to a note from a passenger to a flight attendant, the imams "were cursing US involvement w/ Saddam!"