When you hold a sensitive position, your words and actions can be used as a grounds for termination. That is true if you work for the CIA. It is true if you work for a police department. It is true in the military. And it is also true if you are an airport screener.

And that brings us to the case of Bassam Khalaf, AKA "the Arabic Assassin" in the rap world. He just was fired as a luggage screener at one of the airports here in Houston. He wants to make this a matter of ethnicity, but it isn't. The lyrics to one song talks about commemorating the 9/11 attack with another such attack on September 11 of this year.

HELL YEAH THE WAR IS ON AND YOU KNOW IM STEADY F**IN EM UP
FILL THEM UP WITH LEAD IN THEY HEAD LEAVE EM DEAD BLOODY RED
THE I GO AND TOSS THE BODY OF INTO THE F***IN TRUNK
NIGGA WHAT YOU DONÂ’T WANT IT WITH THIS ARABIC
IM A CRASH A F***IN PLANE IN YO BUILDIN BITCH
9/11/05 BE READY TO DIE I SHOW NO MERCY FOR MOTHERF***IN HO ASS TRICKS

Sorry, dude -- just like you don't joke about bombs at the airport, you don't make such public statements and then screen luggage at an airport. It makes you a security risk.

Not only that, but his lyrics also have hate content in them, of a nature that rivals anything that is spewed from the mouth of the Klan or the neo-Nazis. Consider lyrics of "Hellsent".

"I PUT VIRGIN MARY ON HER KNEES AND MADE HER SWALLOW MY SEMEN . . . . I HUNG A NUN ON THE CROSS LIT A FLAME THEN I TORCHED . . . . I HUNTED DOWN JESUS STABBED THAT N---- AND F---IN DUMPED HIM IN THE DITCH . . . . I WENT FROM F---IN CHURCH TO CHURCH BURNIN ONE AFTER ANOTHER BEFORE I LEFT I GRABBED THE PRIEST AND BEAT THE S--- OUT THE MOTHERF------ THEN I WENT UP TO A PLAYGROUND SAW A LITTLE GIRL AND KIDNAPPED THAT B----- TOOK HER TO MY HOUSE OPENED HER MOUTH AND MADE HER SUCK MY D---"

And that is just an excerpt. The rest is worse. And just as we don't let members of known hate groups work high-security jobs, we cannot let this clown do so either. Frankly, I'd like to see them lock you up pending a full investigation of your activities and conduct after that terrorist threat.

And let's be honest here -- this firing is reasonable. His words make him an unacceptable security risk. I would lose my job as a teacher if I were posting kiddie porn stories -- I think an airport screener who posts this sort of crap needs to be fired for precisely the same reason.

(HT Debbie Schussel & Michelle Malkin)

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