Seems like there may be much more to the story than they or the MSM want you to know.

Pauline revealed to the Pajamas Media that the six imams were doing things far more suspicious than praying - an Arabic-speaking passenger heard them repeatedly invoke “bin Laden,” and “terrorism,” a gate attendant told the captain that she did not want to fly with them, and that bomb-sniffing dogs were brought aboard. Other Muslim passengers were left undisturbed and later joined in a round of applause for the U.S. Airways crew. “It wasn’t that they were Muslim. It was all of the suspicious things they did,” Pauline said.

Here’s the official police report.

There are a few theories, including the one MSM is touting - the Imam’s claim of racial profiling and the catchy “Flying While Muslim” meme. But there’s a problem with that theory:

Other Muslim passengers were left undisturbed and later joined in a round of applause for the U.S. Airways crew. “It wasn’t that they were Muslim. It was all of the suspicious things they did,” Pauline said.

There’s another theory it may have been a thwarted attack or dry-run. Seems plausible from the facts coming out:

Sitting in Minneapolis-St. Paul’s Airport Gate C9, she noticed one of the imams immediately. “He was pacing nervously, talking in Arabic,” she said.
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Another passenger, not the note writer, was an Arabic speaker sitting near two of the imams in the plane’s tail. That passenger pulled a flight attendant aside, and in a whisper, translated what the men were saying. They were invoking “bin Laden” and condemning America for “killing Saddam,” according to police reports.
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Meanwhile an imam seated in first class asked for a seat-belt extension, even though according to both an on-duty flight attendant and another deadheading flight attendant, he looked too thin to need one. … A seat-belt extension can easily be used as a weapon, by wrapping the open-end of the belt around your fist and swinging the heavy metal buckle.
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A married couple one row behind first-class, tried to strike up a conversation with the imam seated near them. He refused to talk or even look at the woman in the eye, according to Pauline. Instead, he stood up and moved to join the other imams in the back of the plane.
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All six imams had boarded together, with the first-class passengers - even though only one of them had a first-class ticket. Three had one-way tickets. Between the six men, only one had checked a bag.

And, Pauline said, they spread out just like the 9-11 hijackers. Two sat in first, two in the middle, and two back in the economy section.

Certainly seems suspicious all the way around. Almost too suspicious. I highly doubt that terrorists who train for months, even years, to carry out such plots would be so predictable that ordinary citizens would recognize the patterns of behavior.

Which is why I’m thinking this was a case of “Entrapping while Muslim”. Seems to me these guys wanted to stir up suspicion and cause security protocols to kick in, simply so they could cry foul, scream racism and denounce the alleged profiling. Maybe for money (you know there will be a lawsuit). Maybe to get airlines to reduce security efforts out of fear of lawsuits and bad press. Or maybe they just wanted to create a pretext upon which to protest.

This theory would seem to be bolstered by their media whoring since the incident.