Iraqi Man Thrown Off Plane for Speaking Arabic Wants Southwest Airlines to Apologize

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iraqi-man...013.html?nhp=1

Iraqi Man Thrown Off Plane for Speaking Arabic Wants Southwest Airlines to Apologize
[Mic]
Tom McKay
April 16, 2016

An Iraqi-born refugee thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight wants the airline to apologize for singling him out.

26-year-old University of California, Berkeley student Khairuldeen Makhzoomi says he spoke Arabic on the phone with his uncle while his plane waited to take off from Los Angeles International Airport, SFGate reported. Soon after, he says, a female passenger looked at him and left her seat; moments later, Southwest Airlines employees told him he must leave the plane.

Security and police officers questioned him upon exiting the aircraft, then called in the FBI. Makhzoomi was then questioned further and subject to a series of searches and a pass by police canines. "This is what Islamophobia looks like," Makhzoomi told the officers, according to SFGate.

Southwest Airlines later refunded his ticket, though it told SFGate its employees had made a "collaborative decision rooted in established procedure" regarding "potentially threatening comments made aboard our aircraft."

According to NBC News, Makhzoomi fled Iraq in 2002 after dictator Saddam Hussein's regime killed his father and recently attended "a dinner at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council with Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon."

Instead of money, he told NBC, "All I need is an apology, to say 'We are sorry we singled you out because [of] one person who felt threatened.'"

Following terror attacks in San Bernardino, California; Paris; Istanbul; and Brussels, Belgium, Islamophobic sentiment has risen in both Europe and the U.S. — an atmosphere of distrust made worse by certain Republican candidates' discourse on the presidential campaign trail.

"Since 9/11, we've seen a steady increase in anti-Muslim bias and dissemination of fear about Muslims in the United States. That trend has really spiked during this current electoral season," UC Berkeley associate professor of anthropology Charles Hirschkind told the Daily Californian. "Candidates have said things like 'Muslims should not be allowed to immigrate to this country' ... These kinds of statements really ramp up both the level of fear and also the level of bias and prejudice and racism that Muslims face."

I believe that a lot of this type of thing is planned and executed to cower the airlines and other businesses into greater submission and lead them into setting special policies to favor and cater to the muzzies.
CAIR and other muslim loving terrorist allies here are knee deep in doing such things.
Also in making headlines that give the obama excuses to act with Executive Orders since he controls by way of his official powers airlines and their policies to a very great extent.-Tyr

[tailfins]

I believe that a lot of this type of thing is planned and executed to cower the airlines and other businesses into greater submission and lead them into setting special policies to favor and cater to the muzzies.
CAIR and other muslim loving terrorist allies here are knee deep in doing such things.
Also in making headlines that give the obama excuses to act with Executive Orders since he controls by way of his official powers airlines and their policies to a very great extent.-Tyr

Southwest Airlines employees speak Arabic, whodathunkit! So exactly what threatening statements were made?

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Southwest Airlines employees speak Arabic, whodathunkit! So exactly what threatening statements were made?

Where is your concern for these muslim attacks upon any policy designed to be more alert and cautious in protecting innocent airline passengers from muslim terrorism?
Did I miss it???
Or did I just note the lack thereof??
Airline should ban him from its future flights.
As he was more than likely executing a previously planned muslim strategy to garner extra special favorable treatment for Arabs/muslims..
More than likely the obama is already cutting new regulations to install by Federal order such favoritism .--Tyr

[NightTrain]

Sounds like another setup like Clock Bomb Boy last year. That guy knew what he was doing and how it looked.

Coincidence that he's from Berkeley?

[aboutime]

Actually. The idiot was just using his phone to ask "WHERE'S THE SNACKBAR!"

[Gunny]

I just think it's too bad they didn't wait to get to altitude before throwing his ass off.

[tailfins]

Where is your concern for these muslim attacks upon any policy designed to be more alert and cautious in protecting innocent airline passengers from muslim terrorism?
Did I miss it???
Or did I just note the lack thereof??
Airline should ban him from its future flights.
As he was more than likely executing a previously planned muslim strategy to garner extra special favorable treatment for Arabs/muslims..
More than likely the obama is already cutting new regulations to install by Federal order such favoritism .--Tyr

Here's an idea that crossed my mind: Train airline staff to take less drastic actions for holders of TSA pre-check cards. That will show that the holder has undergone a background check. There has to be some balance. I could see asking the passenger for identification and additional screening, but kicking them off the flight seems extreme.

[Gunny]

Here's an idea that crossed my mind: Train airline staff to take less drastic actions for holders of TSA pre-check cards. That will show that the holder has undergone a background check. There has to be some balance. I could see asking the passenger for identification and additional screening, but kicking them off the flight seems extreme.

You know how easy it is to take down aircraft? All you really have to do is bust out a window. Civilian pilots aren't taught to fly under combat conditions and civilian birds are too big to maneuver. One person can take a plane down in a second.

I'm all for tossing them off. I'd rather read about some whiner getting tossed off than 200+ people being murdered.

[fj1200]

Awesome, another one of these.

I'm all for tossing them off. I'd rather read about some whiner getting tossed off than 200+ people being murdered.

What was the rational basis for concern?

[aboutime]

Awesome, another one of these.



What was the rational basis for concern?

That's really a good, funny one fj. You trying to convince yourself that the word rational works for you?

[Gunny]

Awesome, another one of these.



What was the rational basis for concern?

You can think how you wish. Fact is, I won't turn my back to ANY Arab knowingly. I don't trust them, and I suspect every one of them. It's only rational until you're blown up or shot in the back. THEN, if you're ready, you're "prepared" and saved people. Until then, there are always those like you that will argue I'm paranoid.

And guess where I learned that lesson? Wasn't from martial arts, the Corps nor being in the ME. I learned it from reading Louis L'Amour westerns. Only takes a second of not paying attention to get dead.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

You can think how you wish. Fact is, I won't turn my back to ANY Arab knowingly. I don't trust them, and I suspect every one of them. It's only rational until you're blown up or shot in the back. THEN, if you're ready, you're "prepared" and saved people. Until then, there are always those like you that will argue I'm paranoid.

And guess where I learned that lesson? Wasn't from martial arts, the Corps nor being in the ME. I learned it from reading Louis L'Amour westerns. Only takes a second of not paying attention to get dead.

Thats why when in a restaurant to eat, I will not be seated with my back to the door.
I've been jumped from behind in bars/clubs before, more than once.
Gives the attacker far too much advantage as the first hits are massive in a fight to bring victory.
Luckily my quick reflexes and hard head saved me each time but still stitches in the head aint no fun..
Neither head shaved to sew up the long gash from the hit with a beer bottle,
I was rather vain about my great hair as a young man. Da'wimmin just loved it.. -Tyr

[Elessar]

Sounds like another setup like Clock Bomb Boy last year. That guy knew what he was doing and how it looked.

Coincidence that he's from Berkeley?

It boils down to:

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks
like a duck, might just be a duck.

Profiling? Maybe. But safety for others?
Which is more important?

The Arabic's and Muslims created this environment.
He should have known better if he was in the U.S. for
a while.

Of course, UC Berkeley is not known for logical thought.

[Black Diamond]

We will become more and more lax until there's another 9/11 or worse.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

We will become more and more lax until there's another 9/11 or worse.

That is the plan that they are implementing in attacking any and all cautionary security policies put into place by businesses(AIRLINES)..
THATS THE HELP BEING GIVEN TO THE MUSLIM TERRORISTS BY THEIR SO-CALLED MODERATE BROTHERS AND SISTERS!
Thus giving their puppet the obama an excuse to issue Executive Orders(unconstitutional laws) to grant special status to them so they can have victories in future attacks.
Any relaxation will most likely be increased by this sustained and organized campaign the bastards are now running on us all.
BAN THE BASTARD FROM FLYING AND TELL THEM ALL-(ARABS/MUZZIES) TO KISS ASS IS WHAT SHOULD BE DONE.
STOP BRINGING IN THE MURDERING BASTARDS AS IF THEY ARE HIGH QUALITY GUESTS/IMMIGRANTS..-TYR