Muslims kicked off plane

Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by ecthompson md

I was going to title this post “Snakes on a Plane,” but no one saw that movie so I decided against that.

You know this story. Two families are getting on a plane and discussing where the safest place to sit might be. They are overheard and reported to authorities. They are Muslim. They are summarily taken off the plane and interviewed by the FBI The FBI deems them safe, but AirTran will not let them back on the airplane. As a matter of fact, AirTran refuses to let them take any plane, anywhere.

So, we have the rights of an airline pitted against the rights of these American citizens.

From CNN: AirTran Airways apologized Friday to members of a Muslim family for kicking them off a plane and refusing to rebook them despite requests from FBI agents who had cleared them of wrongdoing.

The families of Atif Irfan, a tax attorney, and his brother Kashif Irfan, an anesthesiologist, were removed from a flight in Washington before takeoff Thursday after a passenger reported hearing Atif Irfan’s wife say something suspicious.

The FBI interviewed the family and cleared them of wrongdoing.

“We regret that the issue escalated to the heightened security level it did,” AirTran said in a statement Friday afternoon. “But we trust everyone understands that the security and the safety of our passengers is paramount.” Read the full statement (more from CNN).

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  • jen

    chris ludlow // Jan 4, 2009 at 7:41 am

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993321/posts
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    a simple google search shows dozens AND dozens of terror attacks carried out by…get ready folks….MUSLIMS!!!!! Please don’t lump McVeigh in with these assholes and try and tell me anyone can be a terrorist !

    A simle google search shows doezens ANS dozens of terror attacks carried out by… get ready chris… WHITE PEOPLE!!! Were you born with your head up your backside? Haven’t you ever heard of the IRA? Well of course not, guy who quotes the friggin’ Free Republic website!
    Since you strike me as rather intellectually lazy, let me include a big ol’ list for ya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Provisional_IRA_Actions . Not a single Muslim was involved in a single one of the listed atrocities.

    And “Don’t lump McVeigh in with these terrorists”?!?! Why?! Perhaps the dead babies pulled from the rubble that day didn’t really count as victims of terrorists because the terrorists were white? Besides, you can lump hundreds of millions of peaceful practitioners of Islam in with a few nutcases, why doesn’t McVeigh fit the bill?

    I want you to explain your logic, because I, A WHITE OKLAHOMAN IN OKC THE DAY THE MURRAH BUILDING WAS BLOWN UP, wants to know why McVeigh isn’t the same kind of evil as those who flew planes into buildings. Evil knows know skin color, nor does ignorance (apparently).

  • Adrian Snare

    The Muslims should have an equivalent to our Pope; a man who could speak for all Islam.
    This non-existent man could speak out against the terrorists, even root them out and “turn them in “.
    Of course this will never happen… Thus Islam is NOT a religion of peace, but one of hatred and ignorance…That, evidently is the way they want it…
    Sooner or later we will have to face them…

  • http://www.whereistheoutrage.net ecthompson

    as you know, all religions have been used as a tool of hate. The KKK comes to mind.

    Thanks for your comments.

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