Posted on 05/01/2009 4:12:05 AM PDT by Man50D
(IsraelNN.com) The British airline, BMI, has removed Israel from the electronic maps displayed to passengers in some of its planes, Army Radio reports. The report claimed that the reason was to avoid offending Muslim passengers. However, the maps showed passengers the direction of Mecca.
Israel does not appear in maps on BMI flights between London and Tel Aviv, and Khefa, the pre-independence Arabic name for Haifa, appears on the maps.
In addition, the electronic maps display the distance between the plane and Mecca. The airline claims that the map has not been changed due to a “logistical problem.” Instead, it has presently been removed from the two planes that transport passengers to Tel Aviv.
“For this reason, the inflight entertainment system in the two planes was made to adapt to the passengers flying to and from those destinations and therefore the map showed mainly places holy to Islam,” the airline company said in a statement.
BMI denied that it had a political agenda. “If BMI had any political agenda in order not to anger neighboring countries, it would not have invested so much in the Tel Aviv line,” the company stated.
“This is a fault. The electronic map will be removed from the airline’s two planes that operate the route to Tel Aviv,” BMI stated. “We make every effort to take passengers’ sensitivities into account through an apolitical policy.”
The airline has flights to Syria, Lebanon, and even Iran, whose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed “to wipe Israel off the map.” BMI has recently received an agreement with Israel’s Ministry of Tourism for expanding its flight operations to Israel.
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Are they not thinking they're going to be offended?
Oh wait... Christians and Jews don't chop off heads when they get offended. Now I get it.
Iran, whose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed “to wipe Israel off the map.”
Looks like he’s got BMI doing his dirty work for him!
So I take it that the flights to Ireland no longer show Ulster?
Do the flights to Canada show Quebec as a separate nation?
Chewbacca: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgh
C-3PO: He made a fair move. Screaming about it can’t help you.
Han Solo: Let him have it. It’s not wise to upset a Wookiee.
C-3PO: But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.
Han Solo: That’s ‘cause droids don’t pull people’s arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that.
Chewbacca: Grrf.
C-3PO: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the Wookiee win.
Don’t even think about complaining about the map to Mecca on the flights, lest you be charged with a hate crime.
WOW
Wow. Candy-butt wussiness is now the acme of political and social virtue.
Islam is a cultural cancer.
Islam is winning the jihad.
By all means lets not offend the Muslims.
(silence)
Oh, yeah, that's right, they did.
California offends me. Take that one off the map, too.
Actually, I don't find Mecca being on the map to be offensive. It's a real place that really exists and belongs on maps. I DO find it offensive to strip out places, however. This is willful ignorance, choosing to be dumb about the world. Like it or not Islam, Tel Aviv exists and so does Israel. If you are offended to see reality on the map, tough luck. If that were the standard half the US would have maps that don't show New York City or Washington DC.
If I were Israel, BMI wouldn’t ever be landing in Israel ever again.
Did U.K. airline cater to Muslims by wiping Israel off map?
Haaretz | 04/30/2009 | Haaretz Service
Posted on 04/30/2009 9:30:46 AM PDT by van_erwin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241336/posts
And if you're a Green Bay Packer fan you might want them to eliminate Minneapolis.
Oh... we could have fun with this all day.
Michigan could lose Detroit.
Addition by subtraction.
Question: When is the insanity going to end???
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