US student escorted off plane 'for speaking Arabic'

[wdmso]

Originally Posted by detbuch

This thread seems to have fizzled into a slapshtick comedy of errors and misunderstandings resolving into the joke of being afraid of some fear of "something we are not far from . . ."

Much ado about nothing in the large picture of whatever.

you have a very myopic view of the the larger picture ...

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by wdmso

you have a very myopic view of the the larger picture ...

So you really think that there is going to be a surge of passengers being removed from commercial airplanes because they spoke in Arabic? That's the larger picture that I'm viewing myopically? I wonder how many people have been asked to leave a plane for other reasons, but we didn't hear about them.

This is not complicated. If the Muslim's rights have been denied, he can sue the airline. He would have no difficulty in finding a lawyer to take up his case. If he has a case.

[wdmso]

[QUOTE=detbuch;1099168]So you really think that there is going to be a surge of passengers being removed from commercial airplanes because they spoke in Arabic? Never suggested that only that if you look middle eastern you might be better off staying at home That's the larger picture that I'm viewing myopically? I wonder how many people have been asked to leave a plane for other reasons, but we didn't hear about them.

This is not complicated. If the Muslim's rights have been denied, he can sue the airline. He would have no difficulty in finding a lawyer to take up his case. If he has a case. in that light you must feel the Airline acted reasonable and he can sue and everything is all better? I get it /QUOTE]

[detbuch]

[QUOTE=wdmso;1099203]

Originally Posted by detbuch

So you really think that there is going to be a surge of passengers being removed from commercial airplanes because they spoke in Arabic? Never suggested that only that if you look middle eastern you might be better off staying at home That's the larger picture that I'm viewing myopically? I wonder how many people have been asked to leave a plane for other reasons, but we didn't hear about them.

So the larger picture that I'm viewing myopically is that those who look Middle Eastern may come to the conclusion they would be better off staying home because one of them was asked to leave the plane allegedly for saying something threatening? Have all the Middle Eastern looking folks who had reservations since this incident cancelled their flights? Have all those who were planning to fly decided not to? Maybe you can post another article telling us about this sudden drop in passengers who look Middle Eastern.

This is not complicated. If the Muslim's rights have been denied, he can sue the airline. He would have no difficulty in finding a lawyer to take up his case. If he has a case. in that light you must feel the Airline acted reasonable and he can sue and everything is all better? I get it /QUOTE]

I don't know if the airline acted reasonably. It made a claim about threatening sounding verbiage, which has neither been substantiated, nor disproved. If they were unreasonable, I hope that is established and reasonable recompense is issued. In the light of your response, you must feel the airline acted unreasonably. Are you just "feeling" that, or do you actually know?

[scottw]

[QUOTE=detbuch;1099216]

Originally Posted by wdmso

I don't know if the airline acted reasonably. It made a claim about threatening sounding verbiage, which has neither been substantiated, nor disproved. If they were unreasonable, I hope that is established and reasonable recompense is issued. In the light of your response, you must feel the airline acted unreasonably. Are you just "feeling" that, or do you actually know?

apparently one guy getting kicked off a plane is a disturbing trending vector....and probably a crisis

on the other hand....we hardly ever hear of terrorist attacks , especially involving planes sooo....pretending it's a problem is really silly