Tale of the Six Imams
By Arif Kazmi, PE, PhD
Chandler, AZ

It is frustrating to know about the six Imams who were removed from the US Air flight at the Minneapolis Airport. We are hearing a lot of hype against the Airline, the passenger(s) and the agencies involved, but none of us, as Muslims, is getting to the root cause. That is the Al Qaida and its partners who first began the problem on the US soil on 9/11. The result of that criminal act is what we Muslims and our Imams, as innocents, are still facing today.
Instead of being victims of flight-detentions, we as community members and as Imams should be the arms of the authorities to weed out hateful criminals, if any. Otherwise the gap between agencies and the ten million American Muslim population will keep on widening with no positive end in sight.
I am sure our effort will pay off. I quote an editorial ‘Reclaiming a religion’ in which we called upon all Imams and mosques to stand up to condemn the murderers and their collaborators...Hope we will all do it and will continue it until our detentions and profiling cease.

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