A Travel and vacations forum. TravelBanter

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Go Back   Home » TravelBanter forum » Travelling Style » Air travel
Site Map Home Authors List Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Web Partners

Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...



 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #21  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 05:31 PM posted to rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities
[email protected]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...

For additional views on this subject: http://beecy.net/frank/

Gregory Morrow wrote:
x-posted rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities

[WHEN will these stinking ragheads stop the cry - babying and take some
responsibility for their obviously provocative behaviour...!!!???]


6 imams removed from Twin Cities flight

By STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press [November 21, 2006]

"The Council on American-Islamic Relations called Tuesday for an
investigation into the behavior of airline staff and airport security in the
removal of six Muslim scholars from a US Airways flight a day earlier.

A passenger raised concerns about the imams three of whom said their
normal evening prayers in the airport terminal before boarding the
Phoenix-bound plane, according to one through a note passed to a flight
attendant, according to Andrea Rader, a spokeswoman for US Airways.

"We are concerned that crew members, passengers and security personnel may
have succumbed to fear and prejudice based on stereotyping of Muslims and
Islam," Nihad Awad, the council's executive director, said in a news
release.

The six were returning from a conference in Minneapolis of the North
American Imams Federation, said Omar Shahin of Phoenix, president of the
group.

"They took us off the plane, humiliated us in a very disrespectful way,"
Shahin said after the incident.

Shahin said Tuesday that three members of the group prayed in the terminal
before the six boarded the plane. They entered individually, except for one
member who is blind and needed to be guided, Shahin said. Once on the plane,
the six did not sit together, he said.

"We did nothing" on the plane, Shahin said.

The six were among passengers who boarded Flight 300, bound for Phoenix,
around 6:30 p.m. Monday, airport spokesman Pat Hogan said.

Police were called after the captain and airport security workers asked the
men to leave the plane and the men refused, Rader said.

Shahin said no one asked the six to leave until police arrived, when the
group complied.

"Unfortunately, this is a growing problem of singling out Muslims or people
perceived to be Muslims at airports, and it's one that we've been addressing
for some time," council spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said.

Hooper said the meeting drew about 150 imams from all over the country, and
that those attending included Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who just
became the first Muslim elected to Congress. Shahin said they went as far as
notifying police and the FBI about their meeting in advance.

Shahin expressed frustration that despite extensive efforts by him and
other Muslim leaders since even before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks so
many Americans know so little about Islam.

"If up to now they don't know about prayers, this is a real problem," he
said.

Shahin said the group spent the night at the home of a local imam and was
waiting for a phone call Tuesday from US Airways. Hooper said US Airways
refused to put the men on another flight.

The airline did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on that
aspect Tuesday.

The other passengers on the flight, which was carrying 141 passengers and
five crew members, were re-screened for boarding, Rader said. The plane took
off about three hours after the men were removed.

/


  #22  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 05:35 PM posted to rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities
AES
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 186
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...

In article . com,
"Tchiowa" wrote:


It's probably very unfair to these guys. And they have every right to
be mad. But they need to understand that they should be mad at the
Islamic Terrorists who created the level of fear that exists and at
Islamic religious leaders who refuse to adamantly condemn terrorism and
a "man in the street" Muslims who cheered and celebrated after 9/11.
They are the ones who created among the average Joe in the US the
belief that Muslims should be viewed with suspicion.


Every once in a while one actually sees an intelligent, sensible,
reasoned viewpoint expressed on a Usenet newsgroup . . .
  #23  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 05:55 PM posted to rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities
No 33 Secretary
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 22
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...

Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost wrote in
:

No 33 Secretary wrote:

"Gregory Morrow"
et wrote in
nk.net:


x-posted rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities

[WHEN will these stinking ragheads stop the cry - babying and
take some responsibility for their obviously provocative
behaviour...!!!???]



What provocative behavior? Enquiring minds want to know.


Apparently they were PRAYING.


Indeed.

God, what a country this has become.

God has nothing to do with it.

--
"What is the first law?"
"To Protect."
"And the second?"
"Ourselves."

Terry Austin
  #24  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 05:57 PM posted to rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities
No 33 Secretary
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 22
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...

chef_boyhowdy! wrote in
:

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:48:21 -0800, Mike Hunt wrote:

Gregory Morrow wrote:

No 33 Secretary wrote:


"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowTheDayTheLoafyStoodStill@earthli nk.net wrote in
thlink.net:


x-posted rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities

[WHEN will these stinking ragheads stop the cry - babying and
take some responsibility for their obviously provocative
behaviour...!!!???]

What provocative behavior? Enquiring minds want to know.



What did all the 9/11 terrorists do before they boarded their
planes, Terry...???


They didn't pray in public in the departure lounge





Unfortunately, profiling seems to be extremely effective in
combatting and preventing terrorist attacks.


And it preventing innocent bystanders from excercising their
constitutional right to travel.

It wasnt exactly blonde haired blue eyed swedish flight
attendants that blew up all those bombs in past attacks.

If you put the entire human race to death - starting with you -
there will never again be a single terrorist incident, or crime of
any other kind. You _must_ support this, or admit you are a racist
(and therefore, by definition, mentally retarded) hypocrite. You
_must_ immediately kill yourself to prevent yourself from ever
committing a crime, or admit you are a racist (and therefore, by
definition, mentally retarded) hypocrite.

Any "security measure" that affects more innocents than criminals
is counterproductive. It is part of the problem. *You* are part of
the problem.

--
"What is the first law?"
"To Protect."
"And the second?"
"Ourselves."

Terry Austin
  #25  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 06:15 PM posted to rec.travel.air
Mxsmanic
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 5,830
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...

Gregory Morrow writes:

Sorry, mooslim imams spouting their religious gibberish in US airports
WON'T cut it...


What about Hasidim rabbis?

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
  #26  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 06:16 PM posted to rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities
Mxsmanic
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 5,830
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...

chef_boyhowdy! writes:

Unfortunately, profiling seems to be extremely effective in combatting and
preventing terrorist attacks.


True, but people praying in a terminal do not match the profile of
terrorists.

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
  #27  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 06:18 PM posted to rec.travel.air
Mxsmanic
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 5,830
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...

Newby writes:

Muslims could be a little more sensitive to the death and suffering their
brothers have inflicted on others worldwide and not do things to draw
attention to themselves.


Maybe Christians and Jews can set the example, and the Muslims will
follow.

--
Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
  #28  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 06:26 PM posted to rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities
No 33 Secretary
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 22
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

chef_boyhowdy! writes:

Unfortunately, profiling seems to be extremely effective in
combatting and preventing terrorist attacks.


True,


No, actually, it's not.

Profiling people of arabic descent would not have stopped Oklahoma
City. So, obviously, 'tard-boy thinks that caucasians should be kept
from traveling. He _must_, unless he's just a racist (and therefore,
by definition, mentally retarded) hypocrite.

--
"What is the first law?"
"To Protect."
"And the second?"
"Ourselves."

Terry Austin
  #29  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 06:40 PM posted to rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities
Gregory Morrow[_1_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,120
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...


No 33 Secretary wrote:

Any "security measure" that affects more innocents than criminals
is counterproductive. It is part of the problem. *You* are part of
the problem.



El Al Israel Airlines and the the Israeli Airports Authority seem to
disagree with you. They profile, and profile VERY aggressively - which
is why they've had no "incidents" for quite a few years now...we here
in the US should emulate them.

--
Best
Greg

  #30  
Old November 22nd, 2006, 06:42 PM posted to rec.travel.air,alt.gossip.celebrities
Gregory Morrow[_1_]
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,120
Default Ragheads Kicked Off Of Phoenix - Bound Flight...


No 33 Secretary wrote:

Mxsmanic wrote in
:

chef_boyhowdy! writes:

Unfortunately, profiling seems to be extremely effective in
combatting and preventing terrorist attacks.


True,


No, actually, it's not.

Profiling people of arabic descent would not have stopped Oklahoma
City. So, obviously, 'tard-boy thinks that caucasians should be kept
from traveling. He _must_, unless he's just a racist (and therefore,
by definition, mentally retarded) hypocrite.



The OKC terrorist bums drove, they didn't fly :-)

--
Best
Greg

 




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Mo'Nique kicked off a United Airlines flight, cries racism Brian Air travel 6 July 28th, 2006 12:42 AM
T-shirt woman kicked off Southwest flight to sue Surfer E2468 Air travel 1 October 24th, 2005 12:43 PM
T-shirt woman kicked off Southwest flight to sue Jimbo Air travel 4 October 20th, 2005 06:20 PM
T-shirt woman kicked off Southwest flight to sue nobody Air travel 30 October 13th, 2005 11:41 PM
German police pull drunk Delta pilot off Atlanta-bound flight Mxsmanic Europe 7 March 10th, 2005 04:10 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 01:00 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 TravelBanter.
The comments are property of their posters.