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Omega Vision
Face Flowed Into Her Eyes
No Unopened Cokes for Muslims on United Airlines Flights
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/muslim-woman-denied-coke-after-stewardess-claims-she-might-use-it-weapon-445916
Really disgusting, especially the reaction of one of the passengers.
On Friday a Muslim woman was denied an unopened can of Coke aboard a United Airlines flight because the stewardess claimed the woman might use it as a weapon. The response of both the stewardess and passengers seems to point to an unsettling level of Islamaphobia that is brewing in the United States.
Ok, so it’s a flight line regulation. Understandable – that is, if it went for all passengers and not just Muslim women wearing headscarfs.Seeing the clear discrimination that was taking place, Ahmad called the flight attendant out on it, at which time the stewardess grabbed the man’s beer and opened it for him. She then looked back at Ahmad and said, "it's so you don't use it as a weapon."
In what must have seemed like an out of this world nightmare experience, Ahmad began to look to her fellow passengers for some support. She was met with more discrimination as a man across the aisle from her yelled out, "you Moslem, you need to shut the F** up." When Ahmad looked at who had said it, the man continued, "Yes, you know you would use it as a WEAPON so shut the f**k up."
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bluewaterrider
Senior Member
Re: No Unopened Cokes for Muslims on United Airlines Flights
[QUOTE=15238590]Originally posted by Omega Vision
Seeing the clear discrimination that was taking place, Ahmad called the flight attendant out on it, at which time the stewardess grabbed the man’s beer and opened it for him. She then looked back at Ahmad and said, "it's so you don't use it as a weapon."
In what must have seemed like an out of this world nightmare experience, Ahmad began to look to her fellow passengers for some support. She was met with more discrimination as a man across the aisle from her yelled out, "you Moslem, you need to shut the F** up." When Ahmad looked at who had said it, the man continued, "Yes, you know you would use it as a WEAPON so shut the f**k up."
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I'm a little confused. Was Ahmad traveling with a male companion, and the stewardess took the companion's beer?
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Re: Re: No Unopened Cokes for Muslims on United Airlines Flights
Originally posted by bluewaterrider
[QUOTE=15238590]Originally posted by Omega Vision Seeing the clear discrimination that was taking place, Ahmad called the flight attendant out on it, at which time the stewardess grabbed [b]the man’s
beer and opened it for him. She then looked back at Ahmad and said, "it's so you don't use it as a weapon."In what must have seemed like an out of this world nightmare experience, Ahmad began to look to her fellow passengers for some support. She was met with more discrimination as a man across the aisle from her yelled out, "you Moslem, you need to shut the F** up." When Ahmad looked at who had said it, the man continued, "Yes, you know you would use it as a WEAPON so shut the f**k up."
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I'm a little confused. Was Ahmad traveling with a male companion, and the stewardess took the companion's beer? [/B]
From what I just read the man with the beer was simply another passenger on the plane around her. And she said she called the flight attendant out for giving that man an unopened can when she was told she could not have one.
When she asked why the man could have one she said the attendant quickly reached down opened it and then said unopened cans could be used as weapons.
Then another man leaned over and told her to shut up and that she would use it as a weapon.