tarv of the Seven Seas wrote:
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Just think of it,a
You're Mr Hussain. You've been a british citizen for 20 years, you went to a british college and you have a small practice in the middle imaginaryshiresfordham or whatever silly english name the town has, where you treat sick children.
You book a flight to see your brother in Riyhad, you're passport is order, your luggage is bagged and tagged and you arrive at the airport 1 hour early and proceed to board.
However you are seperated out of a crowd because you are from Saudi Arabia. You are then taken into a small room and questioned extensively while airport security goes through your luggage, cutting open the birthday present you bought for your nephew to make sure there are no bombs inside. After much questioning you are proven to be clear to fly.
You enter the plane, the last person on. Where you are eyed suspiciously by every single passenger who just saw you get pulled out of a line.
How woulda feel?
You're Mr Hussain. You've been a british citizen for 20 years, you went to a british college and you have a small practice in the middle imaginaryshiresfordham or whatever silly english name the town has, where you treat sick children.
You book a flight to see your brother in Riyhad, you're passport is order, your luggage is bagged and tagged and you arrive at the airport 1 hour early and proceed to board.
However you are seperated out of a crowd because you are from Saudi Arabia. You are then taken into a small room and questioned extensively while airport security goes through your luggage, cutting open the birthday present you bought for your nephew to make sure there are no bombs inside. After much questioning you are proven to be clear to fly.
You enter the plane, the last person on. Where you are eyed suspiciously by every single passenger who just saw you get pulled out of a line.
How woulda feel?
Well
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A Winnipeg doctor is demanding an official apology and compensation from United Airlines after being kicked off a flight in the U.S. this week, an incident he has characterized as "institutionalized discrimination." Dr. Ahmed Farooq, a Muslim, was escorted off an airplane in Denver on Tuesday. According to Farooq, reciting his evening prayers was interpreted by one passenger as an activity that was suspicious.
"The whole situation is just really frustrating," Farooq said. "It makes you uneasy, because you realize you have to essentially watch every single thing you say and do, and it's worse for people who are of colour, who are identifiable as a minority."
Farooq said the allegation came from a passenger who appeared drunk and had previously threatened him during the trip.
When flight personnel were alerted, the 27-year-old radiology resident and two colleagues — a man and a woman — were taken off their flight. They had been returning from a conference in San Francisco.
Farooq said that even officials from the Transportation Security Administration soon realized the flight crew had overreacted, but by the time that conclusion had been reached the trio were forced to stay in Denver for the night and catch a flight the next day — at their own expense. "There's no recourse," Farooq said. "There's no way to really be able to talk to anybody to really be able to reason it out. The police officers who talked to me afterwards and subsequent officials within the first three to five minutes, they were like, 'You know what? The crew made a mistake. We apologize that they took you off. They overreacted.'"
"The whole situation is just really frustrating," Farooq said. "It makes you uneasy, because you realize you have to essentially watch every single thing you say and do, and it's worse for people who are of colour, who are identifiable as a minority."
Farooq said the allegation came from a passenger who appeared drunk and had previously threatened him during the trip.
When flight personnel were alerted, the 27-year-old radiology resident and two colleagues — a man and a woman — were taken off their flight. They had been returning from a conference in San Francisco.
Farooq said that even officials from the Transportation Security Administration soon realized the flight crew had overreacted, but by the time that conclusion had been reached the trio were forced to stay in Denver for the night and catch a flight the next day — at their own expense. "There's no recourse," Farooq said. "There's no way to really be able to talk to anybody to really be able to reason it out. The police officers who talked to me afterwards and subsequent officials within the first three to five minutes, they were like, 'You know what? The crew made a mistake. We apologize that they took you off. They overreacted.'"
Not that I mind being right, it's just less enjoyable when a poster I consider to be cool beans is the one being so horribly wrong.
