• Student Kicked off Plane for Speaking Arabic
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[quote]Southwest Airlines said that Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was removed from a 9 April flight before it took off. Mr Makhzoomi said he was talking to his uncle on the phone about attending a speech by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. A Southwest employee then escorted him off of the plane. "I was very excited about the event, so I called my uncle to tell him about it," Mr Makhzoomi told the New York Times. [B]A woman on the plane began staring at him after he used the phrase "inshallah," meaning "god willing," in the conversation[/B], he said. After an Arabic-speaking Southwest employee escorted him off the plane, he said "This is what Islamophobia got this country into." [/quote] [quote][B]Southwest said in its statement that he was removed for "potentially threatening comments made aboard our aircraft"[/B] and that it does not tolerate discrimination. "We wouldn't remove passengers from flights without a collaborative decision rooted in established procedures," the company said. "We regret any less than positive experience onboard our aircraft."[/quote] [url=http://www.bbc.com/news/36075317]**SOURCE**[/url] I thought we got over this shit years ago? For fucks sake.
I usually like Southwest but this is silly????????????
[QUOTE=Pascall;50156156]I usually like Southwest but this is silly????????????[/QUOTE] what are you asking? what's the question?
People should know that Allahu Akbar is the dangerous phrase, not inshallah.
[QUOTE=Svinnik;50156161]People should know that Allahu Akbar is the dangerous phrase, not inshallah.[/QUOTE] Being an Arab is the real danger. how do people not know about inshallah its like the most commonly known arabic word in the world aside from hbibi. Clearly some major ignorance playing into this situation
[QUOTE=Bazsil;50156158]what are you asking? what's the question?[/QUOTE] It denotes an inflection in tone I might use if I were speaking forreal! ! ! don't read too much into it man..........................................
This is so Harold and Kumar... But sadly not surprising.
So stupid, I hope he gets his money back.
Its a pain in the ass being arab. My parents are arab (non crazy of course), and it sucks when I start talking lebanese and I have a bunch of people look at me like wtf is he doing.
[QUOTE=Bazsil;50156158]what are you asking? what's the question?[/QUOTE] It's shorthand for "isn't this really silly for something done by a company I like?" shown that way to express shock :eng101:
[QUOTE=maeZtro;50156198]So stupid, I hope he gets his money back.[/QUOTE] More than that, he deserves to be compensated for missing his flight for such a retarded reason. There are most costs associated with this than just the flight itself.
Anyway this incident was really fucking stupid
Hope this guy sues their asses over racial profiling.
"He said Allah-something. He must be a terrorist!" - woman, probably.
[QUOTE=Milkdairy;50156171]Being an Arab is the real danger. how do people not know about inshallah its like the most commonly known arabic word in the world aside from hbibi. Clearly some major ignorance playing into this situation[/QUOTE] I did not know this or any other arabic word. It all sounds like gibberish to me (but that's because I don't speak it) But I feel like I should be exempt from this being terrible because I wouldn't react like a massive retard over it and be racist
There's the phrase "mashallah" too. I was greeted with several mashallahs and wet kisses from an old Iraqi neighbor I hadn't seen for many years once.
I've had children running away crying when me and my friends spoke German in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in ... I don't remember the city. [editline]18th April 2016[/editline] Butte, Montana
[QUOTE=Svinnik;50156161]People should know that Allahu Akbar is the dangerous phrase, not inshallah.[/QUOTE] that's not a dangerous phrase ?? ? ?? ?? ? ??? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ?????? ??
[QUOTE=elitehakor;50156442]that's not a dangerous phrase ?? ? ?? ?? ? ??? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ?????? ??[/QUOTE] Dude it totally is we're lucky we're not banned for posting in the same thread, should probably snip that quote too
Unfortunately, Arabic has evolved alongside Islam and IIRC many everyday words and phrases include references to allah. I'm pretty sure it's a unique language in this respect. No other religion is as tied to a certain language as Arabic is to Islam (Muslims who speak other language still use the word "allah" even though it just means god in Arabic, the only correct reading of the Quran is in its original Arabic, etc.).
[QUOTE=Milkdairy;50156171]Being an Arab is the real danger. how do people not know about inshallah its like the most commonly known arabic word in the world aside from hbibi. Clearly some major ignorance playing into this situation[/QUOTE] The only Arabic I know is wallahi because every Somalian kid at my high school (and there were a lot) used it instead of "swear to God" (its translation in English) all the time, so I asked one one day what it meant.
[QUOTE=elitehakor;50156442]that's not a dangerous phrase ?? ? ?? ?? ? ??? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ?????? ??[/QUOTE] It's a joke referring to the phrase Allahu Akbar being said right before terror attacks
[QUOTE=Pantz Master;50156480]Unfortunately, Arabic has evolved alongside Islam and IIRC many everyday words and phrases include references to allah. I'm pretty sure it's a unique language in this respect. No other religion is as tied to a certain language as Arabic is to Islam (other language speakers use the word "allah" even though it just means god in Arabic, the only correct reading of the Quran is in its original Arabic, etc.).[/QUOTE] Dear me, that's a godawful situation, Jesus Christ I get why people throw themselves in satanic generalizations, god dammit but nevertheless god bless the guy in the OP I hope he is ok, for the love of god and all that is holy. I guess man proposes, God disposes. God forbid we get into the same situation with our language.
Even though most people's mothertongue is french where I live, we like to use some arab words in our sentences, mainly because it sounds funny, like hamdoulilah, wesh, nishen and other stuff like this :v: Concerning the thread's topic : I hope the pilot who asked Mr Makhzoumi to leave is going to have huge problems with the company. Kicking off someone because it made someone uncomfortable is an unacceptable behavior.
[QUOTE=Killuah;50156436]I've had children running away crying when me and my friends spoke German in the middle of bumfuck nowhere in ... I don't remember the city. [editline]18th April 2016[/editline] Butte, Montana[/QUOTE] They probably thought you were Nazis, just like their parents told them about before bed every night.
we WERE debating kinda angrily while standing in a Wells Fargo because they didn't take our credit cards
I have a feeling there must be some other information that's not in the source, it seems a bit too outlandish too remove him just for that. Unless they're counting the threatening language as "this is what islamaphobia got the country into", which is just silly.
[QUOTE=KillerLUA;50156595]I have a feeling there must be some other information that's not in the source, it seems a bit too outlandish too remove him just for that. Unless they're counting the threatening language as "this is what islamaphobia got the country into", which is just silly.[/QUOTE] yeah what's especially weird is that the article says they had someone who speaks Arabic
[QUOTE=Pascall;50156156]I usually like Southwest but this is silly????????????[/QUOTE] Thank god you used so many question marks or i wouldn't know you were asking something Wait a minute
[QUOTE=KillerLUA;50156595]I have a feeling there must be some other information that's not in the source, it seems a bit too outlandish too remove him just for that. Unless they're counting the threatening language as "this is what islamaphobia got the country into", which is just silly.[/QUOTE] Watch this turn out to be another clock boy situation or something like that
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