If only there were a Family Circus-style drawing from little Billy, because here's what really happened: "He insists it was a misunderstanding over a conversation while he was speaking Spanish and English with a fellow passenger who was Italian."
Never mind that initial reports stated that "witnesses told investigators that Asad yelled anti-Semitic references," and "charged officers while he was in custody, using racial slurs and threats while he chanted, leading police to use a Taser to subdue him."
"Toledo man put on no-fly list speaks with 13abc," by Christine Long for WTVG, February 23:
TOLEDO, OH (WTVG) -- He made headlines around the nation for allegedly yelling he wanted to "kill all the Jews" on a Miami plane bound for Detriot. Last night the Toledo man talked to 13abc's Christine Long.
Mansor Asad, 43, says he wants to tell the community he is not a terrorist and he is grateful to be free. At his Toledo home, Asad is spending quality time with his new baby Camilla since he was locked up for two-thirds of her young life.
The father of five arrived home this weekend. The appliance store co-owner had to rent a car and drive back from Miami because, as a part of his plea deal, he is on the government's no-fly list.
"I took a plea of convenience to come home to Toledo to be where people know me, to my community where I was born and raised and where they know I'm not a racist."
Asad pleaded guilty on charges of criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. He says he made the decision after being in jail for six weeks, just to get back home to his family.
This all began when he was arrested on a plane last month as he was trying to return from a vacation in Miami. However, Asad denies ever making a slur against Jews.
"I never once said I want to kill the Jews. I never once got in an argument, never once did I disrespect anyone on that plane."
He insists it was a misunderstanding over a conversation while he was speaking Spanish and English with a fellow passenger who was Italian.
"I understand what happened. I understand people's paranoia," says Asad. "I'm proud, still to this day, I'm proud to be an American."
But he's not sure he'll ever enter an airport again.
Not only is Asad on the no-fly list for the next three years. He will also have to serve probation in Toledo and pay $27,000 in restitution to Delta Airlines.
His daughter pulled a similar song and dance routine on my blog, here:
Fascinating debate, what is the religion of peace? Islam or Christianity? Jay Smith takes on the muslims on Hyde Park, Speaker’s Corner in London, every Sunday.
http://www.avraidire.eu/2010/02/jay-smith-on-speakers-corner-hyde-park-debating-with-muslims/
Is this the guy with the massive rap sheet or am I thinking of someone else?
replied to comment from MrsJ | February 23, 2010 3:38 PM | Reply No, it was him I was thinking of - here's a link to his rather extensive rap sheet:
http://media2.foxtoledo.com/files/AsadToledorapsheet.pdf
"At his Toledo home, Asad is spending quality time with his new baby Camilla since he was locked up for two-thirds of her young life."
"spending quality time" "new baby Camilla" "locked up for two-thirds of her young life"
Hold me. I just wanna cry. What a mean, mean country and system that would do such a horrible thing to such a wonderful man.
I looked at the pdf of his criminal past and was amazed that, with punching and kicking policemen, he has not had to spend more time in a correctional facility.
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He is on the no-fly list for only three years. But he clearly has gone home, and having made his little plea-bargain, is lying, claiming he never said or did what he surely must have said, given that the court found he should pay $27,000 in restitution to Delta Airlines, and that witnesses-- both passengers and the police who had to deal with him -- testified one way, and only Asad, and only now, claims, absurdly:
"I never once said I want to kill the Jews. I never once got in an argument, never once did I disrespect anyone on that plane."
He insists it was a misunderstanding over a conversation while he was speaking Spanish and English with a fellow passenger who was Italian.
For that reason alone, that he now wthinks he can retail this story with impunity, thus impliedly calling the American legal system into disrepute, he deserves to have that "three-year no-fly" rule lengthened, and to be in place for, say, the next twenty years. That's the way to let people know they are not going to be allowed to treat the law, and respect for decisions, quite so cavalierly, as Mansor Asad has done.