In the September 20 issue of Time Magazine, author David Van Biema/Jackson writes very flippantly about a “Muslims Only” event held at Six Flags in New Jersey. He seems irritated that anyone would raise objections to religious segregation at a public amusement park.

Before objections were raised, just how did the event’s organizers, the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), plan to enforce Muslim-only entrance to Six Flags? By the way people dressed? By their skin color? Would entrants to the park have been forced to recite verses of the Koran? Were Jews wearing yarmulkes and Christians wearing crucifixes to be turned away?

Is it somehow different if Muslims try to enforce segregation? Should Americans now allow political correctness to undo all the work of the civil rights movement? What Mr. Van Biema/Jackson so nonchalantly deems to be “fun” is sadly a step back for America’s progress in treating all its citizens as equals.

Mr. Van Biema/Jackson flippantly states,

Controversy erupted when Muslims went looking for fun, but the event was a moment of harmony.

The “controversy” had nothing to do with Muslims having “fun.” It had to do with the ICNA exclaiming on its website,

First Time Ever! Entire park exclusively for Muslims!

Exclusively? According to WorldNetDaily.com,

Six Flags has previously hosted other event days, including an annual Passover theme in which the park is predominantly filled with Orthodox Jews, but the venue is still open to outsiders and seasonal ticket holders, and organizers of previous events have never claimed exclusivity of the park.

Van Biema/Jackson goes after all us “crazies” (average Americans who don’t want to see their country destroyed):

This being post-9/11 America, however, everything Islamic becomes a statement. The cottage industry that monitors Muslim websites publicized the event to a distinctly non—Muslim-friendly audience last week, emphasizing ICNA's alleged connections to terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists. (A Six Flags spokeswoman said the FBI assured her firm that "there is no link between the ICNA and terrorism." The group denies any.)

Oh, all us bad bloggers. Maybe Van Biema/Jackson is worried because more and more people are turning to alternative media. Maybe we’re tired of the politically correct editing of the news. Wasn’t it bloggers who brought out the truth about CBS’s forged documents? And what about WorldNetDaily.com’s investigative reporting of ICNA which revealed:

The ICNA has drawn much controversy to itself in recent years. WorldNetDaily attended a conference in Orlando, Fla., sponsored in part by the ICNA, which featured a main speaker who voiced empathy and support for suicide bombers, denied Muslims were involved in 9-11, characterized the war on terror as a conspiratorial Zionist plot designed to destroy Islam and Muslims, and blamed attacks on affirmative action on "the rise of the Jewish cracker."

Judicial Watch says the ICNA has ties to Hamas, and terrorism expert Steve Emerson stated: "The ICNA's hatred of the Jews is so fierce that it taunted them with a repetition of what Hitler did to them."

In his book, "American Jihad," Emerson writes: "The ICNA openly supports militant Islamic fundamentalist organizations, praises terror attacks, issues incendiary attacks on Western values and policies, and supports the imposition of Sharia [Islamic code of law]."

I’m not so sure we can trust the FBI anymore. But the main point here is that Van Biema/Jackson misses the point completely. For him, a Muslim-only event is fine. Imagine his reaction if Six Flags held a “Whites-only” event.