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I flew on Northwest Airlines flight #327 from Detroit to Los Angeles

My first thought was OH $#!T!

I have a reservation on NWA flight 327 for Aug. 1. I will be travelling with my son, who is 19 years old and usually wears the traditional garb of a Hasidic Jew. (Not the same son in the IDF).

Should we follow "French protocol" and my son should wear a baseball cap over his yarmulke, and tuck his tallit katan inside his shirt?

Well, you FReepers pray for me and I'll give an account after we land safely.

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Looks like you and your son will have to take an active role in your safety since the PC government simply WILL NOT do it. Watch the Arabs like a hawk. Don't even try to conceal it. If they start something like that on you flight, go and search the lavatory (bring latex gloves).

If you find something unusual, take it to the flight attendant (discretely) IMMEDIATELY.

Alouette,

I wouldn't hide from them if I were you. Remember you are one of His chosen people for a reason and that reason probably isn't to hide. Not only that, but their purpose is to make people afraid, to terrorize them. If you hide, then aren't they winning that little battle?

Psalm 91 will be my prayer for you:

O thou that dwellest in the covert of the Most High, and abidest in the shadow of the Almighty;

I will say of the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust,

That He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

He will cover thee with His pinions, and under His wings shalt thou take refuge; His truth is a shield and a buckler.

Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day;

Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

A thousand may fall at Thy side, and ten thousand at Thy right hand; it shall not come nigh thee.

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the recompense of the wicked.

For thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation.

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.

For He will give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

They shall bear thee upon their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.

Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known My name.

He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him, and bring him to honour.

With long life will I satisfy him, and make Him to behold My salvation.'

I agree with those who think this sounds like a dry run.

If there had been real bombmaking materials on board, they would have arrested them. But what they may have been testing is whether a large group of Arabs can board a plane without being stopped.

There's nothing wrong with profiling if it's done honestly. If necessary to cover themselves from political charges, they should have thoroughly searched all of the passengers before boarding because of the presence of this suspicious group.