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Abe Mashal, a 31-year-old dog trainer from St. Charles, says FBI agents told him he ended up on the government’s no-fly list because he exchanged e-mails with a Muslim cleric they were monitoring.
The topic: How to raise his children in an interfaith household.
Mashal said he has never had any links to terror or terrorists and is a “patriotic,” honorably discharged Marine Corps veteran.
He found out he’d been flagged last April, when he tried to board a flight to Spokane, Wash., to train dogs for a client. Since then, his family members and friends have been questioned, and he said he has lost business because he isn’t allowed to fly.
Mashal is one of 17 plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in June by the American Civil Liberties Union over the list.
FBI agents questioned him at Midway Airport, then at his home. Finally, he was summoned to a hotel in Schaumburg, where more FBI agents told him he’d been placed on the no-fly list because of an e-mail he had sent to an imam — a Muslim cleric — whom they’d been watching.
Mashal said he had sought the imam’s advice about raising children in a mixed-religion household. Mashal is Muslim; his wife is Christian.
He said the agents offered to get him off the list — if he would become an undercover informant at mosques. He refused and said he feels he was being blackmailed.
Same as it ever was.
Lets see…
How many Iman in the USA are being monitored??
ALL OF THEM..
And do you think they have a copy of that EMAIL??
probably.
You have NO RIGHT to fly, but you CAN take that 10mpg TRUCK and drive all you want.. EVEN park it in front of a federal building. you MIGHT even get to park on a tarmac, with it LOADED with Ammonia nitrate, near the refueling station.. BUT, YOU CAN NOT FLY.
@21,
WTC 1993 and Oklahoma City Federal Building victims families and all Americans thank you for helping FBI to remember truck bombs because FBI cannot remember anything apparently except the last battle.
#17 – but you would also have to ban Christians from driving trucks – at least in Oklahoma
So far sleepy ATC and confused pilots are still winning the USA plane crash olympics.
#17
How many muslims didn’t bring down the plane they were flying on?
Git-merica
Good grief
#22 – not sure the FBI has caught up with the ‘last’ battle so far.
>fbi Agent
‘Abraham’ – that sounds like a Jewish name.
Marx was Jewish – you a commie – boy?
>whisper in ear from from assistant
What do you mean Muslims, are we fighting muslims now?
>whisper
So are muslims the same as commies?
>whisper
They’re religous – so the same as Jews? Does that make ‘em commies then?
>whisper …
What do you mean the only commies left are chinese but we need them to borrow money from! Damn this job it was much easier when you just had to beatup N****ers
>whisper …
The presidents a WHAT!!!!!
Write for SNL yet? You should!
Cheers!
@ 26 Write for SNL yet? You should!
Cheers!
In #13, LDA said: Going out on a limb here, but maybe people should be considered innocent until proven guilty.
Sorry but Bush repealed habeus corpus in 2001.
Otherwise we couldn’t have a place like Gitmo.
Sucks to be anybody on any official list.
In #16, Nobody asked if we remembered Annie Lee Moss.
Its a little before my time, but Wikipedia does.
Unfortunately, this is not against a single imbecilic senator (is there any other kind?).
This is about an entire government departement, the DHS, who sees everybody as the enemy.
The DHS includes, has close ties to, or works with the FBI, Federal, State and local police, the Reserves, the Coast Guard, INS, the ATF even the IRS … basically every who can make your life miserable.
You never want to get on their radar screen.
They shoot first, ask nobody later.
#23 Tim McVey was an atheist. You meant to ban atheist from driving trucks, right?
McVeigh sounds Irish – so obviously a terrorist.
Of course that’s the real unfairness, Irish catholics have been official suppliers of home grown terrorism and general national bogey-man since the 16th century and suddenly all this bespoke hand crafted home grown terrorism is outsourced to some foreigners that can do it better and cheaper.
Same kind of crap that ended up creating Ruby Ridge. Another low water mark in American law enforcement.
one small point to make that seems to have been missed so far: If he had co-operated, they would have turned him into their real terrorist, that’s where all of these other so called terrorists come from..
What the heck is he doing in the Marines when he won’t even do some spying for us?
What was he doing training dogs in the first place? Doesn’t he know that dogs are considered evil in Islam, and he should have both feet and hands cut off according to Sharia Law because he touched a dog, or was even in a country that allows dogs? Shouldn’t we be passing laws to ban the possession or existence of dogs in the U.S. to appease the Muslims instead of persecuting this poor guy?
(posted in sarcasm, but the fact remains that dogs are considered unclean in the Islamic world)
They may just reactivate him and transfer him to intelligence. If you are discharged from the military you are in the reserves for an equivalent number of years.
#36 – killing, committing adultery and coverting your neighbor’s SUV is considered naughty in the christian world but even some preachers seem to do it.
Nobody,
“>whisper …
The presidents a WHAT!!!!!”
Near!
And somebody’s got to go back and get a sh*tload of dimes.
So while the Feds are allowing dangerous weapons to slip across the border to Mexico, as part of some ill-conceived “sting” (I’m guessing). They harass and and blackmail law abiding citizens to compromise their principles and put themselves in danger. Just so Federal agents can get promoted, for their investigative “work”.