What in the hell were the Air Canada employees who made this decision thinking? How can they not inherently realize it’s simply not acceptable to throw Jews–or anyone for that matter–off an airplane for praying or scaring the yellow bellies in our society?
Good gawd I’m getting sick of this. Look, if another passenger on an airplane is giving you the heebee jeebees, then you should get the fuck off the plane and spare the rest of us from your absurd paranoia and incontinence. You, not they, are the problem. It’s as simple as that.
“The attendant actually recognized out loud that he wasn’t a Muslim and that she was sorry for the situation but they had to ask him to leave,” Faguy said.
hahahahahaha! talk about adding insult to injury…
“Hey! It’s not a Muslim! Goddamn it! He’s just a bit swarthy!”
Yeah, very stupid. I would like to think it was a planeload of dumbass yankees that did the complaining, but that’s probably not the case.
One more manifestation of the self-induced climate of fear that our right wing friends love to foster and wallow in.
oh good grief. b’nai birth is offering sensitivity training to air canada employees. phff - good luck. and is it going to point out the incredible bigotry of apologizing ’cause buddy prayer WASN’T EVEN MUSLIM?!
If I’d have been on that plane, I would have gotten off in solidarity with that man. This is ridiculous…and the rest of us are just putting up with it.
You know, when it has been a muslim pulled off the plane in the past the bed wetters seemed to think it was resonable then? So why not now? As for me, it is wrong in either case. Now if the guy was running up and down the isle praising Jesus, or Allah or the Great Flying Speggitti Monster, then by all means turf his ass, that goes for guys trying to sell you insurance while on the flight as well (ya, happened to me once, a two hour non-stop sales pitch).
People need to get a grip
yeah. i dunno. i’d kind of like most everybody pulled off the plane when i’m flying. but i’m a nervous flyer. i suppose an american flight would have just told him to straighten up and fly right?
Kinsella prediction:
“Robert McClelland, who writes ‘throw Jews … off an airplane’ on his blog…”
hahahahahahaha!
Ti-Guy: I believe you would have, and it speaks well of you. Maybe that’s an idea that should be spread around for use in future similar circumstances.
hm… i’d say it would depend on how weird he was acting. you do have to be responsive to flight attendants:
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2006/09/06/1806249-sun.html
also, if the prayer was a muslim aboard an american airline with a marshall aboard - he’d probably be dead in these times of TERROR!
and you, ti-guy, would probably be hauled off the plane and strip searched if you caused any kind of reactive solidarity scene. flight attendants have a fair degree of power nowadays. you’d be surprised.
sooey: sure it would depend on how weird he was acting. But what’s weird about folks praying before taking off in an airplane? I’ve seen all sorts of white-knuckle passengers do it over the years.
the story sounds full of shit to me. i bet the praying was incidental to his unresponsiveness to the flight attendant. she really has no choice in these times of TERROR! but to have him taken off the flight.
ti-guy, would probably be hauled off the plane and strip searched if you caused any kind of reactive solidarity scene.
Wouldn’t be the first time.
The next flight I’m on, if I hear one squalling baby, some mommy’s going to walking to wherever she’s going.
Terror tots. The new Nazis.
i got threatened with being tossed off a plane for getting out of my seat to retrieve my purse from under a previous seat. i’m serious. this story is bullshit. you’re under a tight rein on flights today and we have the war on terror to thank for it.
by the way, it’s only a while back that a man was shot dead for acting “weird”. shot by a u.s. marshall. again - rocking back and forth praying, not responding to the flight attendant? sorry. that’s a done deal. off the flight.
Yeah. Flights suck. I got searched three times just because I was brown. 3 times. I’m never travelling to the states again that’s for sure.
Random my ass.
Air Canada kicked a 6 year old off the plane from Mexico for “bad behaviour” because the little indulged tyrant wouldn’t do up his seatbelt. They delayed the flight, took him off and his baggage; his parents were still at the airport waiting for the takeoff.
I have no idea what colour the kid in question was, but I bet it was tan
I will likely never visit the US again. I look white but am not, my kid is more red-brown… and you know how that mixing of races thing is frowned upon there…
I say likely never visit because I might someday be called upon to receive an award in New York or somewhere down there, but by then I shall be rich and almost-famous and will be able to fly by personal jet and get the first-class treatment through Customs. Maybe not, though.
They might have to send it to me, Air Mail of course.
Oh, it gets worse. Check out the first-person story of the guy who caused the evacuation of an airliner at Ottawa because he accidentially lost his iPod in the plane’s toilet while he was taking a dump:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=11211166&pageNo=1&sid=1
It’s long, but it’s well worth reading how whacko things have become.