How ironic...

...that the Twin Cities gets to the be symbolic good guy and bad guy in the culture wars this month - all at the same time!

First, we elected Keith Ellison as the first Muslim representative to Congress, and then a US Air flight out of the MSP airport returned & removed 6 Muslim imams because they made other passengers nervous. Sheesh.

On the radio yesterday, they made it sound like the imams were standing up on the plane when they shouldn't have been, but that was not the case. Apparently they made other passengers nervous simply because they were praying and speaking in Arabic.

Then, to add insult to injury, US Air refunded their money but wouldn't sell them new tickets to get home, so they had to go to Northwest. Not sure what that's about, though the NY Times article about the incident notes that US Air has had more complaints from Muslims than other airlines in recent years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/us/22muslim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

At least the media didn't call Keith Ellison to comment on the story!