Sounds like a “my-book’s-not-selling-so-I-need-to-do-something-to-promote-it” case.
He is the author of a book entitled American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear.
Ha! He writes a dissertation, when all you need to say is “everything I ever needed to know about Islam, I learned on 9/11”.
Are you sure this guy’s first name isn’t Jussie...?
On a plane the pilot is commander/supreme authority/the deity. You obey or get kicked off.
I first read the opening as “flying Willie Brown” and assumed this was another Kamala thread.
He was trying to pull a “Smallette”.
There is almost always cell phone footage of these airplane incidents; has any surfaced?
As a frequent flyer, it is frustrating when I see this type of thing happening.
Yes, too many passengers are jerks, but so are many airline employees.
Yes, the Captain has full authority, but he should explain why.
No where in the story does it tell us what specifically was the emergency.
The writer mentions a broken jump seat, but that was from a different flight with a different passenger.
A word I learned from another FReeper. ISLAMOMISIA. A revulsion of all things islamic.
Also works for homomisia.
Somebody needs to show this guy jessie mullets mug shot.
These freaks have nothing...so they gotta make it up. Liars. All of them.
Sorry muzzy, that “color” ship has sailed.
There is a good reason you are distrusted, and your “color” ain’t it.
“And then they poured bleach on me!!!”
There are hundreds of documented fake hate crimes, many of them on college campuses or by professors.
http://fakehatecrimes.org/
Here we go again...... a whiny Muzz looking to score some free money.
Rest easy Khaled Beydoun. The waaaaambulance is on its way.
A phobia is an unwarranted or irrational fear. Since it is neither irrational nor unwarranted to fear a system which requires that you be subjugated, enslaved or killed if you reject it, there is no Islamophobia.
He says he was put in a “bad” seat that made him lean into the aisle.
There is no airplane that has a seat on it that pushes you into the aisle. Clearly it wasn’t the “seat” that was bad.
My guess is his problem with the seat was the person in the center seat. Either it was a woman, and he refused to be near her, so leaned into the aisle.
Or more likely it was a large person, and he considers being seated next to such a person “bad”.
Or maybe the person next to him was a Jew.
I wish we knew who was next to him, we could get that person to denounce the racism, sexism, or fat-shaming that this man clearly did by leaning away from the passenger during the trip and then complaining about having to sit next to them.
I’ve never seen an airline pilot get within arm’s reach or even speak to passengers. They keep themselves separate, and most passengers know to keep their distance.