Can you believe the six imams kicked off the US Airways flight in Minneapolis are threatening to sue?

Can you believe they're walking around free rather than being held and investigated for "probing" on behalf of terrorists?

Can you believe most of the media coverage of this incident focuses on possible civil rights violations and inappropriate religious "profiling"?

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Let's review the facts of the case:

Several passengers on the flight complained to the crew about excessively loud "praying" by the Muslim "holy men." They complained that they were moving around the plane. An air marshal characterized their behavior as a "[political correctness] probe." Even before they boarded the flight, passengers and the flight crew reported the imams prayed loudly, then, once boarding began playing musical chairs – switching from their assigned seats in a configuration used by terrorists in previous incidents. Two even moved to the front of first class, while two others moved toward the middle of the plane and the last two moved toward the back – effectively giving them control of exits. They asked for seat-belt extensions, which could conceivably be used as weapons, and then threw them under their seats rather than use them. Both before boarding and after, they made a spectacle of themselves chanting about "Allah and the United States."

What would you do if you were on that flight?

What would you do if you were part of the crew?

What would you do if you were the air marshal?

Apparently, what you would be expected to do by second-guessers not actually on the flight would be to smile and think pleasant thoughts about multiculturalism and pluralism.

We're supposed to believe that this wasn't planned?

We're supposed to believe these guys didn't know what they were doing?

We're supposed to believe that this wasn't a deliberate effort to test the boundaries of tolerance?

These imams are now on a national publicity tour trying to persuade us that they are as American as apple pie – that they did nothing wrong or even suspicious. Don't buy it.

And if these imams are permitted to win a lawsuit against US Airways, say goodbye to airline security in America.

Five years after Sept. 11, 2001, political correctness appears to be a more powerful force in our country than the safety and security of American citizens.

It's really quite unbelievable.

It's quite clear that these six imams have an agenda beyond acceptance of their religion by Americans.

Most Americans don't pre-judge Muslims as terrorists. But when they act like terrorists, when they don't act like good Americans, when they clearly test our tolerance, when they "probe" our defenses, then Americans have the right and duty to treat them with the utmost suspicion.

What do you think would happen to you if you acted this way on a flight?

It seems like these activists don't really want to be treated equally, they want to be treated in a special way – with more deference, with more understanding.

I don't like traveling any more in this country. I don't like it because of the extra security that is in place – much of it by necessity – because of what happened Sept. 11. I minimize my travels because of the inconvenience and hassle.

But we're at war. And the hassles are a small price to pay to ensure we save American lives and emerge from this war victorious some day.

Americans must not succumb to the temptation to be "politically correct" by overlooking suspicious behavior. That would be a grave – if not fatal – tactical error in this war.

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