Flying while Muslim

13ABC.com ^ | 5/7/07 | WTVG TV 13

[Long Island Pete]

Muslims say when booking a flight, they feel everyone is watching them.

Good!!! The more eyes the better.

[Vigilanteman]

Dr. Zaheer Hasan from Islamic Center of Greater Toledo says flying as a Muslim is disheartening. "As I board a plane, I see all the eyes tracking me. I see numerous visits by the airline crew.

Then he should take a camel.

Your wife is not alone. Mine is middle-aged, matronly, sweet as can be and looks like the mixture of Scot-Irish, Italian and Cherokee which she is. She gets pulled over 9 in 10 times. One TSA worker even apologized and told her the day's quote of older white women hadn't been filled.!

[Explodo]

I recall one time traveling to D.C. I was working on my laptop which had technical Specs for a Mk38 Raphael gun system. The guy behind me got quite concerned...turned me into the Stewardess, who called Reagan INT security who met me at the gate...Showed them My bonafides and they got me a cab.

Which in my mind, was a legit stop and question activity. Never even thought that people would be concerned with stuff like that.

Now I know.

[MrB]

the day's quote of older white women hadn't been filled

IE, the day's "wasting of effort on people who wouldn't possibly be terrorists while letting people through who should be scrutinized better".

[Veeram]

“Muslims say when booking a flight, they feel everyone is watching them.”

I certainly hope so !

[Cricket24]

Too darn bad!

[Leatherneck_MT]

I would hope that he is, but somehow I doubt they would pass over an 80 year old grandma or a US congressman to do a random security check on someone who belongs to a religion that is our avowed enemy.

The PC idiots in DHS wouldn’t allow that to happen.

[353FMG]

“I’m not Muslim, but if I were, who’d know in order to keep a close eye on me?”

Anyone who has spent time among Muslims would recognize you by your hatred-filled eyes.

[Dacus943]

"So when my Very Caucasian, Very Blond, Norwegian descended wife"

Delicately... is she hot?

[From One - Many]

Muslims say when booking a flight, they feel everyone is watching them

Get used to it moose, we are watching......

[jagusafr]

I’ve only gotten pulled once, and it was while I was flying in uniform. Guess I just don’t pull off that military look...

Colonel, USAFR

[Scothia]

Muslims have the obligation to prove they're not out to kill me, AFAIC.

[Explodo]

Politely....

She’s quite attractive. 5’8” Blond...Leggy. Must be the Ideal candidate for a security problem.

[janereinheimer]

Well, the airlines say it is a coincidence. But my husband and I have flown many times since 9/11 and we beat your 85%. We are singled out 100% of each time we have flown.

Finally, we were told that our biggest “problem” was that we had purchased one-way tickets when we went to Kansas City, MO when my mother was in the hospital. We were not sure when we’d be returning (because of the gravity of her illness) so we figured we’d just buy the ticket back to Chicago when we made sure mom was okay.

Mom was not okay and died eight weeks later but not before we had made a number of trips back and forth — round trip purchases for weekend visits to hospital. We learned to recognize those bold face “Ss” down in the right hand corner and sure enough, we got the special treatment.

[Explodo]

We always thought it was because of international travel to Israel and Sweden...And One trip to Germany. We made the almost the same trips outside, she traveled to Sweden,...I didn’t. Swede’s must be a hotbed of terrorist activity

[jpsb]

“Muslims say when booking a flight, they feel everyone is watching them.”

Imagine if we were not so PC here in the usa, what would happen then? I think Muslims would agree, being watched ain't all that bad.

[Alouette]

When we were in Amsterdam airport last month, my husband had to pray Shacharis (the Jewish morning prayer), wearing his prayer shawl, in the terminal, with about a thousand people watching him.

Yesterday afternoon, returning from a weekend in Toronto, we got pulled over for a "random security check" at the Sarnia/Port Huron border.

WAAAAHHH!! "Traveling while Jewish!"

[stevie_d_64]

Trying........to.......squeeze.........a...........tear.........

uggghhhh...

Nope, can’t do it...

[wastedyears]

My eyes may not be good, but 90% of my attention will be towards them.

[RouxStir]

If the shoe bomb fits...wear it.