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I still doubt the accuracy of this e-mail. But for purposes of this thread, I will first bring up one obvious error. The existance of one obvious error does not necessarily mean other items are wrong, but necessarily cast doubt on other facts mentioned in the e-mail.

Quoting from the main article, which appears to be well-researched:

According to flight logs and information from one of the flight crew who continued with the flight, AirTran 297 ultimately departed Atlanta and arrived in Houston later that evening. Quoting from the e-mail:
Due to the amount of people who got off that flight, it was cancelled.

It is clear the flight was not cancelled
On another point, the main article states:
Some passengers and flight crew, traumatized by the blatant actions of the Muslim passengers, refused to travel with the Muslims who caused this orchestrated disturbance.

This strongly suggests that only a few passengers got off, and only a portion of the flight crew (my guess would be the flight attendants who were accosted verbally by people who were allowed back on the plane.
the e-mail states that the entire flight crew left the plane, to be replaced 5 minutes later. But there is no way an entire flight crew left a plane unattended with passengers in it. Even IF the crew was all leaving, the cockpit personnel would have waited for the replacements to arrive.
SOme of the e-mail is corroberated by the main article, although off in details (that could easily be gotten wrong in a true story), like the number of muslims (13, rather than 11), or that only 10-11 were left back on, not the original two that caused the problem.
I also didn't know how the e-mail passenger could know what people in the back of the plane were watching on a video; the main article gives no indication that ANY passenger was able to identify what they were watching, and a stewardess said she thought they were filming.
My GUESS from this article is that these men decided to cause trouble, in the hopes that they could film people acting badly so they could raise sympathy for their cause (they seem to be part of a radical muslim organization according to the article).
But that tells me that if the man in this e-mail had actually man-handled one of the muslims, and his texas friend had done the same, that we would have seen a video of it, or the muslim organization would have issued a press release about how innocent muslims were being beat up on planes by white guys.
Since there has been no mention about this incident from the muslim organization, it is my OPINION that nothing happened on the plane that the organization could use to make their case, which means i think that there was no attack on them.
It's all speculation -- I don't KNOW that the e-mail is false, and I would have a tendency to believe the e-mail more if the passenger who reportedly wrote the e-mail was interviewed on TV -- all we have is an e-mail from someone we don't know, which CONTAINED an e-mail from a supposed passenger.