Dept. of transportation rules that US Airways didn't discriminate against flying imams
Published by Avi Green on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 8:51 AM.
A fortunate discovery, that those troublemakers in Minnesota have lost their complaint (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):
Imams lose complaint: The U.S. Department of Transportation said an airline didn’t discriminate against six imams when it removed them from a flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in 2006.While it's good to hear that justice has been done, there still needs to be a law protecting against frivolous lawsuits in the US. The Democrats killed the law proposal of the Republicans on that issue. It should be brought up again.
The department’s assistant general counsel, Samuel Podberesky, informed the Council on American-Islamic Relations of the department’s conclusion in a Jan. 14 letter.
But the department did fault US Airways for refusing to book the men on another flight after the FBI cleared them.
The letter is among several exhibits entered last week in a lawsuit the imams filed against the airline and the airport in federal court in Minneapolis. The trial is scheduled for August.
The men claim they were discriminated against because they appeared Middle Eastern and some of them prayed before boarding the flight.
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