[Lunatic Fringe]

Let's see you get pulled off a plane, told there was no reason to pull you off, pay for ANOTHER plane ticket and see how happy you are.

[SlayerOfBunnies]

I'm not a muslim. Therefore I'm not a terrorist. This guy was obviously a muslim and therefore a potential terrorist. He behaved in a provocative manner and got booted. Why would that possibly be a problem for anyone? What is he doing out of his 3rd world crap-hole anyway? Who invited him?

[TChris]

Let's see you get pulled off a plane, told there was no reason to pull you off, pay for ANOTHER plane ticket and see how happy you are.

I think we all agree that the situation sucks. But the blame for it belongs on Islamic terrorists, not United Airlines. Farooq can't just blithely ignore the past weeks, months and years of our experience with Islamists and pretend we should all ignore it too.

There is a valid reason for suspicion of Muslim passengers. And it isn't religious bigotry.

[Publius6961]

Let's see you get pulled off a plane, told there was no reason to pull you off, pay for ANOTHER plane ticket and see how happy you are.

Nice straw man.
Where did that happen?
(Aside from in your fevered imagination, that is.)

[rlmorel]

He is a muslim male, between the ages of 18-45. He is on a plane, and begins audibly reciting his prayers.

If I had been sitting next to him, yes, I would have been damned nervous.

How about him showing some compassion and consideration for his fellow passengers, who recognize the reality that people who fit his profile exhibit that exact behavior before they check out, often taking hundreds of other people with them.

He is lucky that about 40 passengers didn't jump on his lame ass and beat him to a bloody senseless pulp to keep him from lighting his shoes on fire or some other such thing.