Frequent Flying Imam In The News, Again

Infamous frequent flying Imam, Omar Shahin of Phoenix is in the news again after being removed from an airplane in Lakeland, Florida yesterday.

Alert flight attendants and brothers, Emil and Conrad Swaboda claim they both informed Shahin that he was on their no fly list prior to his removal from the flight.

Evidently Shahin violated a state mandated 4 foot maximum height restriction for the plane due to safety concerns. Shahin strongly disputes that claim as he apparently timed his boarding with his afternoon prayers and, consequently, wasn't any more than three to three and a half feet in height as he inched his prayer mat past the height restriction sign for the plane.

Emil and Conrad stated they were in the maintenance shack grabbing "a quick one" in between flights and admitted that they did not see Shahin board. "I never would'a let his sorry ass on the plane if'n I'd'a seen him," said Conrad, the younger of the two brothers.

"I don't know why a grown man would wanna plunk his silly ass down in one'a those things in the first place", said Emil. "They don't much go fast at all. But, there you have it."

The hawk-eyed attendants killed the master power switch for the plane while using the plane's gate-mounted upright camera, generally used for kiddie portraits, to snap a picture of the flying Imam while still harnessed into the aircraft. The Swabodas said the move was designed to protect themselves, as Shahin immediately began threatening litigation when confronted about his presence on the height restricted flight.

Theme park officials were unavailable for comment and Homeland Security, the National Transportation Safety Board, and the Florida Department of Parks and Recreation, are all said to have launched independent investigations.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the state at Happy Land Amusement Park, another group of Imams quickly gathered for what they termed a Pray-In. An unidentified Imam was spotted cursing the maximum height requirement sign for the Snoopy and The Red Baron Whirl Around,  calling for the wrath of Allah to strike the insulting words from the sign as it was deemed a violation of their civil rights.

Also today, Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called for an investigation into the behavior of theme park staff and security personnel throughout the state of Florida. Cooper also indicated that his organization, CAIR, intended to join in any possible legal action stemming from what he called, "a blatant slap in the face of every decent, fun-loving American Muslim."

Update: It looks like Jules Crittenden is in kind of a funny Muslim mood tonight, too.

Comments

[Carol_Herman]

These adult clowns on a kiddy ride? I hope they convict them of pedophilia, too. I wonder if they were thinking of jerking off instead of taking off?

We're not safe from the lunatics! We're being "over-lawyered," to boot.

[Phoenix]

ohmygod. Did you make those lame pictures? ha ha ha....

Thank you thank you.... I was getting ready to nuke myself off this blog forever....

Shew!

[splashtc]

ahh ha ha ha - now you're talking! Keep making fun of these oh so self important so humorless zealots. That's their problem-never got teased and knocked down in the schoolyard for being dorks. and... all our political correctness is not helping them or us!

[Phoenix]

Carol,

Are you sitting on a crooked branch on a leafless tree somewhere out there in the sphere?

I think my head just exploded.

[The Liberal Avenger]

Did Carol finally get kicked off of Captain Queeg's?

[Phoenix]

Who knows, but she's still rolling those metal balls around in her hand...

Or is that 'head'?