sentences:  Imam Shahin holds both the Master of Theology and the Doctor of Philosophy from the Graduate Theological Foundation.In November 2006, he became a spokesperson in the flying imams controversy, in which he was personally involved; he and five other imams (Didmar Faja, Marwan Sadeddin, Mohamed Said Mitwaly Ibrahim, Ahmad Shqeirat, and Mahmoud Sulaiman) were taken off a US Airways flight before it left Minneapolis for Phoenix, Arizona.Shahin and his companions were returning to Arizona from a meeting of the North American Imams Federation in Minnesota.