Posted on 09/21/2019 6:38:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Two Muslim men from Texas say American Airlines profiled them and canceled their flight after crew members said they didnt feel comfortable flying with the pair.
Abderraoof Alkhawaldeh and Issam Abdallah said they filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Transportation against the Fort Worth-based airline, asking the federal agency to investigate the incident. The men say American Airlines discriminated against them Saturday for appearing Muslim and Middle Eastern during a flight from Birmingham, Alabama, that was headed to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
The pair says flight attendants reported them because a crew member noticed Abdallah flush the toilet two times while in the airplane restroom, according to a letter the mens attorney sent to the DOT. The men also waved to each other on the plane.
It was the most humiliating day of my life, said Abdallah, who spoke Thursday at the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The passengers were put on a later flight. Alkhawaldeh and Abdallah were questioned and searched by the FBI and the Transportation Security Administration before they were cleared to board. [ ]
The NAACP issued a travel advisory in October 2017 for American Airlines after a string of incidents in which black passengers said they were discriminated against on flights.
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Why would you stay in a country where you thought you were not welcome? Feel free to leave.
It’s Birmingham, AL fer pete’s sake. What did they expect? A welcome wagon?
Well, duh.
As a white, Christian male who observes the passing scene, I am increasingly concerned that anti-discrimination laws be vigorously enforced.
“Profiling” = good police work. The safety and security of the public is more important than the muslims’ feelings.
Are those the two?
If only American profiled their mechanics like they did these guys.
Sucks to be a Mooslim
+1
Enforced against YOU. No one else.
Every day, TSA takes someone off a flight and searches them. About time we started including muslims with all the little old grannies and hot little 16 year olds.
Muslims still owe American Airlines for two airplanes and United Airlines for another two.
No...just a picture I found on the internet.
Gee, what a shame.
Let’s see.... NINE moslem men, who SHOULD have been profiled waaaaaayyy way back in 2001 (I know, it’s a lifetime ago), hijacked FOUR Airliners, drove two of them into the World Trade Center, another into the Pentagon, and the last one into a field in Pennsylvania.
And these two are complaining...
Be thankful we’re even allowing you ON an aircraft, Achmeds.
My wife and I were strip searched by the TSA, and I mean completely naked. We are the least terrorist looking people you can imagine and both of us had plane tickets to go back to our home state. It made no sense in any level other than the TSA having to adhere to complete political correctness rather than actual security concerns. We are wasting hundreds of billions of dollars a year and destroying the effectiveness of agencies that are suppose to keep us safe.
Well, good.
TSA having to adhere to complete political correctness rather than actual security concerns...
That is the mission of the TSA. And they are union.
I have flown in and out of Amsterdam. WAY better and more effective security procedures. The tsa is a joke.
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