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This latest Los Angeles Times report serves as an official CAIR dog whistle:
A plane was stopped from taking off from Los Angeles International Airport, and two men on board were taken into custody, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
LAPD Lt. John Romero said the men, who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, were [...]

“The deciding factor is overtime, not security.”

Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not submit/surrender”

Remember: The 2,996 Project.
Remember: “Let’s roll!”
Remember: The angels on loan from God.
Remember: The 9/11 babies.
Remember: Falling Man.
Remembrance is worthless without resolve. Resolve is useless without action. Here is how “Never Forget” is practiced 24/7/365 by ordinary Americans taking extraordinary steps to ensure 9/11 doesn’t happen again:
Sgt. Desion Fulks [...]

Piercing. (Photo source.)

A Yale professor named “Don’t tase me, bro” as the most memorable phrase of 2007 last week. Here’s the first of my two-part list of obvious and not-so-obvious notable quotables, words, headlines, and phrases of the year. Part I covers January through June. Part II will cover July through December.
January:
“Obscene amenities.” – WaPo troop-basher William [...]

They claimed to have dropped the John Does from their discrimination lawsuit. The Becket Fund challenges them to do what they say.

Exposing the campaign to silence John Doe whistleblowers in academia and public life.

“Come and kill me if you want, but I’m not going to submit.”

Plus: CAIR’s vision of the US capitol

OUTRAGE: The Dems are carrying water for the CAIR crowd. Time to put pressure on Nancy and Harry to protect John Doe.

Looking out for you
I said it yesterday. I repeat it today: Thank you, whistleblower. Now, we know a bit more. He works at Circuit City:
A male employee who works at Circuit City behind the Moorestown
Mall is the unsung hero that first enabled authorities to foil the Fort Dix terror plot.
Circuit City corporate spokesman Jim Babb [...]

Tim Sumner reports that two of the litigious flying imams “are scheduled to attend a rally in support Rafil Dhafir, who is currently serving 22 years in federal prison for raising millions of dollars and funneling it to “charities” in Iraq through the Holy Land Foundation in addition to diverting $300,000 for his private use. [...]

Update: I am HuffPo.

The left-wing blogosphere is up in arms over the John Doe movement and manifesto.
It’s telling, isn’t it, that HuffPo and company are outraged not at CAIR and the litigious imams–but at me:
Does Michelle Malkin believe the things she writes? Is she five? Is she living in a parallel universe where Afghanistan is [...]

House GOP strikes back at the litigious imams, reports the Washington Times in a web-only exclusive. Audrey Hudson writes:
House Republicans today surprised Democrats with a procedural vote to protect public-transportation passengers from being sued if they report suspicious activity — the first step by lawmakers to protect “John Doe” airline travelers already targeted in a [...]

The GOP steps up.
The Becket Fund steps up.
Power Line on the New John Doe movement. More here.
Step up!

More: 9/11 Families for a Secure America steps up.

My prediction: The Council on American-Islamic Relations will be hounding this American soldier and milking this incident for every last “Islamophobia”-mongering dime they can raise (via the AJC and hat tip: Laura Mansfield):
Spc. Craig Perkins’ uniform made him a target in Baghdad – and, he believes, again in an apartment complex near Clarkston.
Perkins, who returned [...]

***update and bumped to the top: Zawahiri rings in the new year with a call to jihad for the Religion of Perpetual Outrage***

It began with the Danish cartoons. It ended with the flying imams. 2006 was a banner year for the Religion of Perpetual Outrage. Twelve turbulent months of fist-waving, embassy-burning, fatwa-issuing mayhem, intimidation, and [...]

Shakedown target
Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times has the latest on the grievance-mongering flying imams and their attempted extortion:
A group of Muslim imams is seeking an out-of-court settlement with US Airways, saying they should not have been removed from a Minnesota-to-Phoenix flight last month and were not behaving suspiciously.
Five of the six Islamic religious leaders [...]

Merriam-Webster announced theirs over the weekend. Here are your nominations. Readers sent in a few entries coined in previous years, but they’ve held their currency, so they made the cut:

What’s the word/phrase of the year?

Absolute Moral Authority

Cartoon Rage

Culture of corruption

Cut and run

Fauxtography

[Fill-in-the-blank]-gate (Plame, Foley, Jamil, etc.)

[Fill-in-the-blank] Derangement Syndrome (Bush, Rove, Diebold, etc.)

The flying imams

Reconquista

Sharia

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More end-of-the-year [...]

Well, well. Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times reports that an internal investigation by US Airways, plus two other probes, so far conclude there was no wrongdoing by the crew in its treatment of the six flying imams:
Three parallel investigations into the removal of six imams from a US Airways flight last month have so [...]

Bow down
The flying imams have inspired Muslim mau-mauers across the country. Now, there’s this via the Detroit News (hat tip- Debbie Schlussel):
Fitness USA, a gym chain, is investigating an alleged civil rights violation involving a local Muslim woman who says her afternoon prayer was interrupted by a fellow patron, and that her complaint to management [...]

Sout al Kuffar, the best anti-jihad short filmmaker on the Internet bar none, has a new Jawa Report video skewering the flying imams. Watch it, favorite it, and share it:

Bluto reports that a jihadi group called Oul-Al-Albab/Oul-Al-Absar has formed at YouTube to target videos and users critical of Islamist violence. Don’t let them go unanswered.
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Background: [...]

I had lunch with Pajamas Media Washington editor Rich Miniter today and got a sneak peek at the exclusive now up at PJM: the full official police report of the flying imams incident and handwritten witness statements.
Check it out.
Rich reports:
The case of U.S. Airways flight 300 gets stranger by the minute. When six traveling Muslim [...]

Audrey Hudson at the Washington Times investigates the Minneapolis Six and gets feedback from air marshals.
We take a closer look at Omar Shahin over at Hot Air. Discussion on O’Reilly last night here.
HA affiliate Charles Ryder has more video and spotted another hate-spewer at the praying imams’ protest yesterday at Reagan National.
Scott Johnson at Power [...]

***update: here’s the AP dispatch of the event this morning…***

Imam Omar Shahin: Milking it
The saga of the flying imams continues. It ain’t over ’til the grievance-mongers sing.
One of the Muslim clerics who was questioned and detained in Minnesota on a US Airways flight after passengers reported suspicious behavior is staging a protest here in Washington [...]

Yes, I’ve followed the case of the six praying imams removed from a US Airways flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and questioned by police for several hours before being released.
As sure as the rooster crows, CAIR is screaming and the Muslim leaders of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage are calling for a boycott.
Robert Spencer [...]