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Jewish World Review
Nov. 30, 2006
/ 9 Kislev, 5767
If I were a terrorist
By
Cal Thomas
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Taking a page from the unpublished O.J. Simpson book, if I were a terrorist, what would be my domestic strategy for bringing America to its knees?
The recent incident aboard a US Airways plane in Minneapolis exposed one component of my strategy. I would have suggested that six imams shout "Allah" as they approached the plane for boarding and then not take their assigned seats once onboard. I would have told them to sit in seats where they could block every exit, including the one in first class, which is closest to the cockpit.
When a passenger raises concerns in a note to a flight attendant and authorities remove them from the plane in handcuffs, I would call a news conference and hold other media events, including an interfaith "pray-in" at Washington's Reagan National Airport. I would hurl charges of religious bigotry and racial profiling at cowering officials.
Next, I would persuade sympathetic members of Congress, like the vociferous Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) to say that the Sept. 11 attacks, "cannot be permitted to be used to justify racial profiling, harassment and discrimination of Muslim and Arab Americans."
When I am delayed because my name is on a "watch list," despite fruitless efforts to have it removed, I don't claim persecution or profiling. When my computer bag is emptied of its contents and every item in it, including power cords, is examined for signs of explosive powder, I don't claim discrimination. I can't even verbally vent my frustration, nor can I make jokes about bombs. Signs warn me I could be denied access to the plane. But I might be a diversion, were I a terrorist.
The Washington Times carried a front-page story recently that exposed my nefarious plan to further weaken American resolve against terrorists. After much of the media initially took the "racial profiling" and "flying while Muslim" line, the Times discovered my real objective. The newspaper interviewed witnesses who said the imams were not speaking only in English, as they claimed, but also Arabic. Nothing wrong with that, but the witnesses also said they were criticizing the war in Iraq and President Bush and talking about al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden.
The Times quoted a flight attendant who maintained that one of the men made two trips to the rear of the plane to talk with an imam during boarding and again when the flight was delayed because of their behavior. Aviation officials, including air marshals and pilots, told the newspaper these actions alone would not warrant a second look, but the combination was suspicious.
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Robert MacLean, a former air marshal, is quoted in the story: "That's like shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater. You just can't do that anymore."
Other parts of my plan for destroying America, if I had one, are also coming together. Mosques and Islamic schools, many funded by the extremist Wahaabi sect based in Saudi Arabia, are "exploding." My brilliant idea (if it was mine and if it was for real) encourages Americans to have abortions or small families, while the "peaceful religionists" have large families in order to skew the demographic in Western countries. Politically, if I had a plan, it would be to mobilize immigrants and those born in America to vote to change the immigration policies of the United States and lower its guard so that the ultimate destruction of America would be assured.
The 9/11 hijackers conducted "trial runs" before Sept. 11 to probe weak spots. The behavior of the imams was even more provocative and suspicious. A pilot, who requested anonymity, told The Washington Times that airlines are not "secretly prejudiced against any nationality, religion or culture," and that the only target of profiling is passenger behavior.
"There are certain behaviors that raise the bar," he said, "and not sitting in your assigned seat raises the bar substantially, especially since we know that this behavior has been evident in suspicious probes in the past."
Drat! They discovered my plan, but there will be another time and maybe the next time, or the time after that, I will again succeed.
This is how I would think, if I were a terrorist.
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