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'Maybe he was looking for the bathroom': Family defends Yemeni passenger who stormed cockpit
dailymail.co.uk ^ | May 10, 2011 | Daniel Bates

Posted on 05/10/2011 1:28:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The Yemeni man who was wrestled to the floor after pounding on the cockpit door of a plane approaching San Francisco may have mistaken it for the bathroom.

Rageit Almurisi cannot speak English very well and could have misunderstood the signs inside the jet, his cousin claimed.

The maths teacher, who was heard yelling 'Allahu Akbar' as he allegedly battered the door, had also only been on three planes in his life and would have been unfamiliar with the layout.

His family also claimed that Almurisi, 28, suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and could also have reacted badly when an air stewardess told him to sit down.

His painful joint condition meant he had to take regular walks on flights, they claimed. ‘I would not be having that,’ his cousin Rageh Almoraissi said.

‘If a flight attendant has the nerve to grab me and try to force me to my seat, believe me, you would hear about other people having injuries.’

Almurisi sparked panic when he started yelling and banging on the cockpit door on American Airlines Flight 1561 from Chicago, just ten minutes before it was due to land on Sunday night, according to police.

But the suspect's cousin, Rageh, 29, said he was a university educated, easygoing person who had arrived in Northern California a year-and-a-half ago from Yemen in search of a better life.

He told the Bay Citizen newspaper he probably overreacted when he was told to sit down.

‘There's a lot of things I'm guessing, you know, I'm just trying to figure it out,’ said Rageh. ‘I know he wasn't trying to harm anyone. I know that for sure. He's not a terrorist. He's a nice guy.’

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KEYWORDS: allahfubar; almurisi; flightincident; jihadinamerica; lameexcuse; movealong; nothingtoseehere; pravdamedia; ragehalmoraissi; skyjacking; suddenjihadsyndrome
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Come on. He’s from Yemen. If he was confused about the bathroom, he would’ve peed on the drink cart.


61 posted on 05/10/2011 1:54:09 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: TennesseeGirl

The Islamic prophet Muhammad specified that one should use an odd number of stones (preferably three) to cleanse the anal orifice after defecation and then proceed to a different location to wash it with water.

Honey, don’t forget to pick up more stones at the Publix!


62 posted on 05/10/2011 1:55:48 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Batman11

That’s why they consider it an insult to try to shake hands with them using your left hand. I liked the part about toilet paper being acceptable now instead of stones, though. I’d like to suggest they add yet another rule — rub your stomach while patting your head and rotating your body 360 degrees!


63 posted on 05/10/2011 1:57:46 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I must have missed it. How many years in jail is he going to get?


64 posted on 05/10/2011 1:58:40 PM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: library user

LOL!!!!! These people lie like a rug.


65 posted on 05/10/2011 1:59:11 PM PDT by MsLady (Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
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To: tet68

“The Islamic prophet Muhammad specified that one should use an odd number of stones (preferably three) to cleanse the anal orifice after defecation and then proceed to a different location to wash it with water.”

I think I saw Fred and Barney do this on a Flintstones episode!


66 posted on 05/10/2011 1:59:57 PM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Allahu Akbar" is an Islamic battle cry. It's what they say when shooting at U.S. convoys, knowing they're going to be cut down by machine gun fire from the turrets. Suicide bombers say it before pushing the Big Button. It's what you say when you know your body may literally explode in the next 5 seconds...

If an Arab needs to use the bathroom so badly that he's yelling, 'Allahu Akbar',... I mean, hot damn. Give that man some room.

67 posted on 05/10/2011 2:00:57 PM PDT by Steel Wolf ("There are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate." - Ibn Warraq)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
He told the Bay Citizen newspaper he probably overreacted when he was told to sit down.

Preposterous. Who ever heard of a Muslim overreacting?

68 posted on 05/10/2011 2:01:42 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"The maths teacher, who was heard yelling 'Allahu Akbar' as he allegedly battered the door, had also only been on three planes in his life and would have been unfamiliar with the layout."

Hey, could happen. I mean, when you gotta go....you gotta go.

C'mon folks, haven't you ever been trapped on a flight when the previous evening's Mexican dinner attacks you...the lavatories are full/doors locked...and you just stand there pounding on 'em yelling "Oh for the love of GOD, would you get OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!"?????

69 posted on 05/10/2011 2:02:09 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I always scream ALLAH AHKBAR while trying to get to the pilots pit, mistaken it for the bathroom.

What’s the problem here?


70 posted on 05/10/2011 2:02:44 PM PDT by NoGrayZone ("Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being beheaded.")
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To: All

These fools had better be careful.
Soon, a nervous passenger might feel the need to kick one of these monkeys to death for trying a stunt like this......


71 posted on 05/10/2011 2:02:50 PM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Excuse fail.

Lamest. Excuse. Ever.

72 posted on 05/10/2011 2:03:58 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: keat
Why do we let people from Yemen get on planes? Seriously, why do we let them into our country at all?

Great point! How does someone from Yemen, of all places, just decide "they want a better life," and simply get on a plane to America? How does that happen?

? I worked with a guy until recently, who was from some asian/middle east country. He said he put on his very best clothes nearly everyday, and, carrying a briefcase with nothing in it but his lunch, he would go to the American embassy to try to persuade the embassy people that he was worthy of going to America and that he had the wherewithall to return to his home country. He said his fellow countrymen laughed at him every single day, but eventually, he got into the U.S. Naturally, he has never left as he said he would.

He did get laid off recently, so maybe he did go back.

73 posted on 05/10/2011 2:05:12 PM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"I know he wasn't trying to harm anyone. I know that for sure. He's not a terrorist. He's a nice guy."

Don't friends and neighbors always say the same thing about serial killers and or thugs?

74 posted on 05/10/2011 2:05:45 PM PDT by NoGrayZone ("Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being beheaded.")
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To: bgill
I mean, you make one wrong turn down the wrong aisle and you're lost for hours.

LOL!

75 posted on 05/10/2011 2:06:39 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure of the accuracy of the quotes. Abraham Lincoln '65)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Why didn’t you go to the ahkbar back in the airport, Rageit?”

“I didn’t have to allah then.”


76 posted on 05/10/2011 2:08:06 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: TennesseeGirl
A man should not touch his genitals with the right hand.


77 posted on 05/10/2011 2:08:10 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: TennesseeGirl

Corrected:

“When defecating together, two men cannot converse, nor look at each other’s genitals, and especially not handle each other’s genitals....unless, of course, he has the alluring eyes of a young goat.”


78 posted on 05/10/2011 2:12:29 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: TennesseeGirl
When defecating together, two men cannot converse, nor look at each other's genitals, and especially not handle each other's genitals.

Wow. 

Especially that bit about not handling another fellas genitials whilst defecating.

What a sick bunch. I imagine it's ok to handle a goat's genitials whilst doing your business.



79 posted on 05/10/2011 2:13:15 PM PDT by zeugma (The only thing in the social security trust fund is your children and grandchildren's sweat.)
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To: Snickering Hound

OMG.....that literally made me laugh so hard I damned near Allahu Akbarred all over myself.......


80 posted on 05/10/2011 2:13:29 PM PDT by RightOnline
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