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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