The radical Islamic front group calling itself the Council on American Islamic Relations has been retained as legal counsel for the imams removed from a US Airways flight: Islamic group to represent imams in US Airways flight incident.

Several of the Muslim clerics removed from a recent US Airways flight to Phoenix have retained an Islamic civil rights group as their legal counsel.

The Council on American Islamic Relations announced that five of the six imams removed from the Minneapolis to Phoenix flight have retained the group as their legal representatives.

The imams were removed from the flight after other passengers were concerned about their behavior, which included including switching seats and saying Muslim prayers.

Tempe-based US Airways Group Inc. has defended its handling of the incident. A Washington Times story on Thursday said various investigations into the matter, including by federal agencies and the Air Line Pilots Association union, showed US Airways personnel did not act inappropriately in removing the clerics from the flight.

The Muslim individuals were attending a religious conference in Minnesota and returning to Phoenix. They were questioned and released.

CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement there have been false rumors and statements regarding the imams behavior while on the flight and his group wants to make sure events are accurately portrayed and religious and civil liberties are protected.

Amazingly, the Phoenix Business Journal, while parroting the ridiculous line that CAIR is a “civil rights group,” actually mentions their ties to terrorism—but in the most politically correct way possible:

CAIR is a Muslim civil rights group. Critics have accused the group of being sympathetic towards anti-Israel militant groups.

“Critics have accused?” Anyone who cares to investigate the matter for more than 5 seconds will discover that CAIR itself makes only cursory attempts to hide their sympathy for Islamic terrorist groups, and not just “anti-Israel” ones. But that’s what our mainstream media does in this modern era—they hide the truth about vitally important issues, because it’s “better for us” not to know.

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