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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Come on. He’s from Yemen. If he was confused about the bathroom, he would’ve peed on the drink cart.
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!
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!
I must have missed it. How many years in jail is he going to get?
LOL!!!!! These people lie like a rug.
“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!
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.
Preposterous. Who ever heard of a Muslim overreacting?
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!!!!!!!!!!!!"?????
I always scream ALLAH AHKBAR while trying to get to the pilots pit, mistaken it for the bathroom.
What’s the problem here?
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......
Lamest. Excuse. Ever.
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.
Don't friends and neighbors always say the same thing about serial killers and or thugs?
LOL!
“Why didn’t you go to the ahkbar back in the airport, Rageit?”
“I didn’t have to allah then.”
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.”
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.
OMG.....that literally made me laugh so hard I damned near Allahu Akbarred all over myself.......
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