Storm Track Intimidation: Comparing Muslim Perceptions With Reality

They’re at it again. Muslims playing the victim card, though this time low-keyed.

A New Jersey Muslim group is launching a nationwide effort to record complaints about Muslims being wrongfully detained or questioned at airports to determine where the worst problem areas are. The group has received several complaints from Muslims using airports in New Jersey and New York that they were detained and questioned for hours when attempting to return to the country from abroad. The group has received several complaints from Muslims using airports in New Jersey and New York that they were detained and questioned for hours when attempting to return to the country from abroad.

Nowhere in the article does the Muslim group give a hint on why Muslims returning to this country. How about these for recent reasons? The reality vs the perception?

The Muslim teacher suspended for refusing to work without her veil is connected to a hardline mosque where the ringleader of the July 7 bombers worshipped, it has emerged. The family are known to worship there and may have encountered Khan before his terrorist act. However, there is no suggestion that Miss Azmi or anyone in her family have any connection with terrorism. The mosque is run by Tablighi Jamaat, a radical Islamic movement believed by intelligence agencies to be a fertile source for recruiting young extremists. Two months ago, Tablighi emerged as a link between several of the men arrested over the plot to use liquid bombs to blow up transatlantic airliners. Richard Reid, the jailed shoebomber who tried to blow up a flight to America, also attended mosques run by the group.As a woman, Miss Azmi is more likely to pray at home than attend the mosque, although it does have a room reserved for females. But her father, Dr Mohammed Mulk, is understood to be a regular, and is named as a joint headmaster of the mosque's school, Jaamia Talimul Islam.

Gee. Do you think she got her radical ideas from her father and the preaching in that mosque that produced a homicide bomber? And another reality check.

A leading British Muslim was kicked off a flight to the USA because of his links to an 'extremist' youth group. Kamal Helbawy, 67, a founding member of the Muslim Association of Britain, was told by airline staff he was barred from flying to New York shortly before the plane was due to leave London Heathrow. Egyptian-born Mr Helbawy has previously been criticised for his links to the increasingly radical World Assembly of Muslim Youth - which he co-founded several decades ago.

And I just couldn’t pass up this parting remark in the article.

Some police leaders have called for tolerance and claimed there is a danger of creating an offence of 'travelling while Asian'.

Or is it North African, Middle-Eastern – oh, heck – Muslim!

But believe it or not, there are some who do believe it’s the Muslims fault that they are being singled out. Does it come from non-Muslims? Nope. Surprise! Surprise! Egypt.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is urging Muslims to accept some of the responsibility for the way Islam is seen around the world. Many Muslims are angry about drawings in the West mocking the prophet and about accusations that Islam encourages terrorism. But Mubarak asked what Muslims had done to confront terrorists who say they act in the name of Islam. "Shouldn't we Muslims shoulder part of the responsibility of these wrong ideas about Islam? Have we fulfilled our duty in correcting the image of Islam and the Muslims? What did we do to face a terrorism that wears Islam's cloak and targets the lives of the people," Mubarak said in the remarks that were televised live. Muslims have strayed from the essence of Islam and need to return to its principles of "forgiveness, righteousness and reform," he said.

I’m afraid Mubarak is trolling for the Anwar Sadat Assassination Award.