Mahdi Bray and the Muslim Brotherhood front group calling itself the Muslim American Society are squeezing every last drop of sweet sweet PR out of the flying imams incident: Muslims, others protest.

And the imams are going to sue US Airways, of course.

A group of about 100 Muslims gathered at Tempe Beach Park on Friday, in front of US Airways headquarters, to appeal for equal treatment and justice.

Led by Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, the group prayed and listened to speeches of support from Jewish and Christian representatives as well as two talks by Bray himself. ...

“Deliberate injustice is more fatal to the one who imposes it than on the one on whom it is imposed,” Bray said. “We want to tell US Airways that second-class citizenship is not an option.”

Only one of the affected imams attended the gathering. Ahmad al-Shqeirat, spiritual leader of the Islamic Community Center of Tempe, addressed the group only in a final prayer. He said in an interview that the imams are likely to file a discrimination lawsuit against US Airways next week.

“Security concerns are the concern of everybody,” he said. “But it was handled in an unprofessional way, and the decision (to remove them from the plane) was made by unprofessional people.”

A US Airways spokeswoman said the pilot “absolutely made the right call” in having the men removed from the flight last week after at least two people, including an off-duty flight attendant, complained about their behavior.

“None of it in and of itself might have been an issue,” Andrea Rader said from the airline’s Tempe headquarters. “But all together, it concerned the crew. The crew has to act on the information in the here and now, attempting to balance security vs. customer service.”

Kudos to US Airways for standing up to these blatant attempts to delegitimize genuine security concerns.