Posted on 03/30/2011 8:14:28 AM PDT by Inspectorette
I think people know that most Muslims are peaceful but how do we recognize the dangerous ones? If a muslim-looking person did something provocative while I was nearby, i’d be scared to death.
When a muslim-looking person does something provocative in a public place, it is news. It is valuable to know that they are of Middle-Eastern origin.
The entire problem is that we can’t tell the good ones from the bad ones. The bad ones are inclined to blow innocent bystanders to pieces. Where’s the sympathy for those of us who simply don’t want to be blown up? That’s all. We just don’t want to be blown up.
The Amazing Karnak will now attempt to divine the names of one or more of the passengers. It’s coming to me, I can feel it through the ether. It’s starts with an “M”. Wait, wait - now it’s clear - Mohammed!
Someone aced his political correctness class. He'd probably describe 9/11 as a customer service issue.
I'm thinking 9/11 comes under the “Slight bit of Turbulence” category.
Don’t forget a can of Spam ‘for lunch’. I have brought it on before with crackers.
“apparently on his hands and knees in an aisle “
Trying to figure out which way was East.
I have some Muslim neighbors who have become very dear friends. They came here in the '70s as teenagers, and are completely westernized. They're pretty secular, and celebrate Christmas!
3 ‘Strange’ Men Cause Flight Diversion
At least one man of “Middle Eastern descent” got into a fight with an attendant, passengers say
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/118912134.html
A Portland, Ore.-bound flight made a “level two emergency” stop in Chicago Tuesday night after passengers said three men, reportedly of Middle Eastern descent, were acting strangely, even fighting with flight crews.
At least one of the men walked back to the area of the plane where flight attendants work, laid down and began complaining of illness. That man engaged in “some sort of altercation” with the flight attendant, a passenger said.
At one point another man, who was pacing back and forth in the aisles, also got into a “verbal altercation” with a flight attendant, according to a passenger.
Other men of “Middle Eastern descent” were passing notes and “writing in their notebooks,” a source told NBC Chicago.
United contacted officials at O’Hare and alerted them that the flight, which originated in Washington D.C., would stop. The flight was diverted to Chicago.
Three passengers were removed from the aircraft, and the remaining passengers were re-screened through security, before being sent on their way.
Passengers arriving at Portland told NBC affiliate KGW they were aware of problems during the flight. Cliff Robinett described the incident as “strange goings on in the back of the plane.”
Another passenger, Lydia Omelchenko, said the three individuals removed were “strange people.”
Robinett said the man was lying on the floor in the back of the plane did not speak English, and an interpreter had difficulty translating. Robinett said a doctor on the plane also tried to assist the passenger.
He said three men got off the plane, one of them ill. No one knew what was happening at the time, including TSA officials in Chicago, he said.
Stacy Niedermeyer of Southwest Portland was on the flight with her husband and four children.
Niedermeyer said one of the men went to the back of the plane and “sat down on his bottom.” Some type of heated altercation took place.
Lydia Omelchenko said passengers knew something was amiss and were texting about the incident. She reported that two men, one of them young, left the plane and neither looked ill.
Other passengers interviewed did not wish to be identified. One passenger said a man with a backpack was pacing back and forth and got into an argument with a flight attendant.
Another said she understood it was some type of medical issue and despite it all, she never felt unsafe.
United spokesman Rahsaan Johnson refused to elaborate Wednesday morning on the reasons for the passengers’ removal other than saying “they were not following crew member instructions.”
“It was agreed they should not continue on to Portland.” Johnson said the crew and passengers spoke with law enforcement on the ground. A Chicago police spokesman professed no knowledge of the incident and said officers at O’Hare were not contacted.
The flight was diverted to O’Hare at 7:30 Tuesday night, then left Chicago for Portland at about 11 p.m. and arrived at 3 a.m. Chicago time.
I find it interesting that we have all the increased TSA screening for terrorists, yet in all likelihood, we are HELPING terrorists in Libya and may provide them with weapons!?
Just saw the local news out of Portland. It’s being swept under the rug (pun intended). No surprise.
Not exactly the whole story being told here.
"My father was on this flight and he called me from Chicago shortly after the air marshalls boarded the plane and escorted multiple people off. Are so politically correct as a nation that we are no longer allowed to say the men in question were on Middle East discent? Well, I guess I'm not that PC because I'll say it... they were.
"Does this necessarily mean there was a terrorist plot to bring down UAL 251? I certainly would not be willing to go that far, but I can tell you NOT ONE SINGLE NEWS SOURCE has mentioned the men were Middle Eastern, not did they bother telling you a bomb-sniffing dog was brought abourd the plane, nor did they tell you the "sick" man in question had made his way from nearly the front of the plane to nearly the rear of the plane before dropping on all fours right in front of the emergency exist while the plane was cruising at 35k feet.
"Now you know more than you did before... and hopefully we'll all learn more shortly! "
Unfortunately, we won't learn more. I had to hunt for this story on The Oregonian website, as well as the local Portland TV stations.
A backpack? Loaded with what?
If he had sunglasses on in might have been Tourist Guy.
Haven't seen him for a while.
Leni
It’s almost painful to read this article, for all the strained language, for how the writer contorts himself into knots trying not to use the “M” word.
The world has gone mad.
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