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sonz
08-20-2006, 03:07 PM
A Muslim doctor is demanding an official apology from a U.S. airline after he was asked to abandon a flight in the U.S. this week, CBC reported.

Ahmed Farooq, a Winnipeg doctor, who was escorted off an airplane in Denver on Tuesday, condemned the incident as "institutionalized discrimination."

Dr. Farooq said that reciting his evening prayers was interpreted by one passenger, whom he said was apparently drunk and had previously threatened him during the trip, as an activity that was suspicious.

"The whole situation is just really frustrating," Dr. Farooq said.

"It makes you uneasy, because you realize you have to essentially watch every single thing you say and do, and it's worse for people who are of color, who are identifiable as a minority."

Even Transportation Security Administration officials realized the flight crew had overreacted, but the 27-year-old radiology resident and two colleagues — a man and a woman, were already taken off their flight and asked to stay in Denver for the night and catch a flight the next day at their own expense.

"There's no recourse," Farooq said. "There's no way to really be able to talk to anybody to really be able to reason it out. The police officers who talked to me afterwards and subsequent officials within the first three to five minutes, they were like, 'You know what? The crew made a mistake. We apologize that they took you off. They overreacted.'"

Winnipeg MP Pat Martin urged the federal Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day to address the case with his American counterparts.

•Discrimination

About 4.5 million Arab Americans live in the United States, nearly 2% of the American population. The number of Muslims in the States is expected to grow to each about 6 million by the year 2010, surpassing the Jewish population in the U.S.

•Polls

Recent polls and surveys showed rising Islamophobia among Americans.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll carried out last March found that more than half of Americans believe there are more "violent extremists" within Islam than in any other religion and that the Islamic faith encourages violence against non-Muslims.

Analysts also say that negative feelings towards Muslims have become much more pronounced than in the immediate aftermath of September 11 attacks on the Unite States, thanks to the biased media approach towards Muslims and the Islamic faith linking them to terror and terror attacks worldwide.
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Obi-Wan
08-21-2006, 01:18 PM
Muslim men removed from flight 613

Muslim leaders yesterday spoke of their dismay after a passenger mutiny in which several British families refused to travel on a plane with two Asian men.

The men were forced to leave the flight after fellow passengers wrongly suspected them of being terrorists. Several people on board flight ZB 613 from Malaga to Manchester demanded their removal.

Cabin crew informed Spanish authorities and the men were ordered off the Monarch Airlines flight and questioned by police for several hours. They were eventually cleared and put on an alternative flight.

[...] Similar incidents in which people of Asian or Middle Eastern appearances have been targeted by fellow passengers have been reported on pilots' and cabin crews' websites, including one in which two British women with young children on a flight from Spain apparently complained about a bearded Muslim man - even though he was security checked twice before boarding the plane.

[...]
Heath Schofield, an industrial chemical salesman from Cheshire, who was travelling with his wife and two daughters, Emily, 15, and Isobel, 12, said some passengers had become alarmed by the men's appearance. "We were coming back to Britain with a load of people in flipflops and shorts but the two men were wearing jumpers and leather jackets," he said.

His wife, Jo Schofield, a college lecturer, said there was a "pin-drop's silence" when the men entered the cabin, and that theywere eventually led off by police, with their heads bowed, as people watched in silence. She said suspicion was aroused after a passenger had earlier claimed to have heard them say something alarming in Arabic.

She said she was "frightened" by how quickly people's attitudes had changed and was worried for the future. "For years we have put a lot of time and effort as a society into making Britain culturally diverse and politically correct with equal opportunities and now people are changing their opinions.People are becoming frightened and are judging and labelling people," Mrs Schofield said.

[...]
If you wear a leather jacket in warm weather and speak something that sounds like Arabic, then you are suspicious.
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QuranStudy
08-21-2006, 01:49 PM
I'm going to dress like a Rabbi when I travel :D
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AvarAllahNoor
08-21-2006, 01:51 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by QuranStudy
I'm going to dress like a Rabbi when I travel :D
oooh kinky...
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Muezzin
08-21-2006, 04:44 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by Obi-Wan
Muslim men removed from flight 613



If you wear a leather jacket in warm weather and speak something that sounds like Arabic, then you are suspicious.
I wonder if Indiana Jones speaks Arabic...
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therebbe
08-21-2006, 05:32 PM
He should demand an apology! I have gotten wierd looks when I have had to do evening or afternoon prayer required in Judaism. Its ridiculous how people will stare at you like your an alien.
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QuranStudy
08-21-2006, 05:33 PM
Well said.
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Curious girl2
08-21-2006, 08:19 PM
format_quote Originally Posted by therebbe
He should demand an apology! I have gotten wierd looks when I have had to do evening or afternoon prayer required in Judaism. Its ridiculous how people will stare at you like your an alien.

He probably should. However I think its important to understand how deep the average person's fear runs right now. On the holiday flight, you are talking about ordinary average people who, rightly or wrongly, get their information from the only sources available to them, the press. They are going on holiday, for a rest, a break. They are taking their loved ones with them, their wives and children. No matter what people say about standing up to terrorism, there is a huge amount of fear right now in the general public with regard to so called muslim terrorism.

Situations like the holiday flight incident will happen more often, sad though it is.

CG
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Rou
08-21-2006, 08:39 PM
ignorance is what is being spread and due to that terrorisem will spread even further...

they but turn the hands towards terrorisem by discriminating in this way...

more hate will be born and more fear and it will lead to even bigger divides...

those who kill innocents are not muslim we as muslims dont accept them if anything those who are non-muslims force us into there group and to there side by doing these types of things you but send a message to muslims and that is wether you are a terrorist or just a follower of islam there i no place for you in the west and in the end majority of muslims will be pushed into sticking with the terrorists eventhough in the first place they dont agree with there ways at all...

you but only rally the cause of the terrorist and his sick ways...

islam condemns terrorisem and deaths of innocents and always has done...

non-mualims mix up sympathy for the innocent muslims with support for terror and that beyond anything is the biggest weapon in the hands of those who are against islam and the terrorists...

comn people grow a brain and wake up!
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AvarAllahNoor
08-22-2006, 07:54 AM
Wear T-Shirts stating you're not a terrorist. I'm wearing one with 'I'm a Sikh not Muslim' - You know how these vigilantes get confused...
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seeker_of_ilm
08-22-2006, 09:35 AM
:sl:

Looking back though, for example..the September 11 attacks...none of the alleged bombers had beards or wore Sunnah clothing. They dressed like normal westerners. So where does this association with the beautiful Sunnah of Muhammed (SAW) and terrorism come from?
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AvarAllahNoor
08-22-2006, 09:45 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by seeker_of_ilm
:sl:

Looking back though, for example..the September 11 attacks...none of the alleged bombers had beards or wore Sunnah clothing. They dressed like normal westerners.
No, but laden does and he is inspiring them!
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seeker_of_ilm
08-22-2006, 10:05 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by AvarAllahNoor
No, but laden does and he is inspiring them!
:sl:

But Bin Ladin is just one man. Throughout history there have been literally millions of bearded men who don sunnah clothing.....that DIDN'T blow anyone up...or inspire anyone to.
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AvarAllahNoor
08-22-2006, 11:31 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by seeker_of_ilm
:sl:

But Bin Ladin is just one man. Throughout history there have been literally millions of bearded men who don sunnah clothing.....that DIDN'T blow anyone up...or inspire anyone to.
Yes, but they don't cause hysteria do they and they don't sell newspapers (and i don't mean on the corner shop either) :winks:
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Obi-Wan
08-22-2006, 09:12 PM
Muslim pilot reveals shock at being ordered off flight

A British Muslim airline pilot yesterday described the "humiliating" moment when he was hauled off a transatlantic flight just before take-off.

[...]Mr Ashraf, 28, a British Pakistani who was returning to his job as a pilot for one of Continental's partner airlines in the US, will lodge a formal complaint with Continental Airlines, with whom he was travelling, as well as with the US authorities.

[...] Mr Ashraf said: "I was a standby passenger and I'd been told I could travel at 9am that morning. I'd gone through the same stringent security as every other passenger. I was patted down twice and my hand luggage was checked."

He added: "I'd got my boarding pass and got on the plane on business class. The aircraft's doors had closed and it got pushed back from the gates. Then we sat away from the gates for an hour. I must have fallen asleep because I was woken up by a Continental employee who wanted to have a word with me.

"I got out of my seat and noticed the aircraft door was open and the stairs had been moved back to the door. The stewardess told me there were no standby employees allowed to fly that day, but I was sure there were other standby passengers on board the plane. I was demoralised and I had to walk down the stairs, which was really humiliating."

He was then approached by two armed police officers who interrogated him. Mr Ashraf said the officers asked him if he knew why the US government wanted him off the flight. He was forced to go back to his family home in Wales and paid £800 for an alternative Virgin flight two days later.
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Rou
08-23-2006, 08:24 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by AvarAllahNoor
Wear T-Shirts stating you're not a terrorist. I'm wearing one with 'I'm a Sikh not Muslim' - You know how these vigilantes get confused...
I have seen these t-shirts being worn and to tell the truth as a muslim i feel insulted... i have many sikh friends who also state they would not wear these t-shirts beacuse it gives a message that its ok to attack, insult or search a muslim.

but im sikh so dont do it to me...

dont get me wrong i see why a sikh may wear this t-shirt as the confusion in many ignorant punks is obvious but as a muslim it just feels like its a open day on muslims!?

so then perhaps muslims shud wear a t-shirt saying im a muslim not a terrorist?

overall no one should be judged on the basis of there race but rather there actions...

the t-shirt in my view only but encourages others that they may do what they wish to muslims but beacuse that race has stated there not muslim not to attack them...
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Rou
08-23-2006, 08:37 AM
format_quote Originally Posted by AvarAllahNoor
Yes, but they don't cause hysteria do they and they don't sell newspapers (and i don't mean on the corner shop either) :winks:

This is one man and thats the point if we go back to the time of 9/11 muslim terrorists were a number of few groups that were talking more and attacking less they were the minortiy and there view was extreme today thats all been muddled up and mixed in to the view of every muslim...

if i say i dont like whats happening in iraq and im a muslim - i supprt terror...

if i talk of the quran too much and my dislike of the middle east situation - im a terrorist...

NOW!

if i sit on a plane and talk in any language but english - im a bomber!?


how many more attacks have been tried on UK soil since 9/11 and iraq???

where were these terrorists before 9/11???

yes there were things going on but the US and UK have grown there own enemies and dragged the muslims and innocents dying in this war along with them!?

we didnt ask to be made enemy number one they made us!??

now in the view of majority of westerners there is no diffrence between a terrorist and a muslim....

bin laden didnt do this mate bush and blair did that....

if we were to judge a race on its actions then the whole of USA and UK should be punished for the actions of the single men and groups of men and goverments that raped,piliged,stole,tortured and murdered more innocents than any other race in the world...

but we dont do that...yet all muslims are taken from the view of one mans actions by westerners ....bin laden...

as the brother stated what of the thousands of other good men islam has produced from today all the way back to the prophet mohammed (PBUH) himself?

what of there wisdom and respect they showed to there friends and enemies alike?

all forgotten in the actions of a single man?

Not for us...
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