• Student Kicked off Plane for Speaking Arabic
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If I were to come over and speak Finnish, that would also be "potentially threatening comments", no? Since they likewise wouldn't understand any of it.
[QUOTE=jimbobjoe1234;50156312]Hope this guy sues their asses over racial profiling.[/QUOTE] Speaking Arabic is not racially profiling. Southwest's actions are not racially profiling. You're looking at the wrong type of discrimination. You cant just be throwing out racial profiling.
[QUOTE=Talishmar;50156842]If I were to come over and speak Finnish, that would also be "potentially threatening comments", no? Since they likewise wouldn't understand any of it.[/QUOTE] Well you can say like "allah on aika paska jätkä" and get kicked off
[QUOTE=Code3Response;50156871]Speaking Arabic is not racially profiling. Southwest's actions are not racially profiling. You're looking at the wrong type of discrimination. You cant just be throwing out racial profiling.[/QUOTE] what is it then
[QUOTE=usaokay;50156631] I thought we would know better by now than to instantly judge people for the color of their skin and language they're speaking after hearing stories of Islamic people being targeted just because of recent events.[/QUOTE] You expected better? I would tell you why that is naive, but I think the great Gene Wilder can say it better than I can. [video=youtube;ZZvT2r828QY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvT2r828QY[/video]
[QUOTE=Swebonny;50156366]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.[/QUOTE] mashallah just means "oh goodness" or something like that "oh goodness, you look handsome today" "mashallah you look handsome today" "you made this all by yourself? oh my goodness" "you made this all by yourself? mashallah" you get the idea [editline]18th April 2016[/editline] they don't say wow or any other equivalent because they don't want to jinx you
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;50157008]what is it then[/QUOTE] At best: Its nothing more than Southwest reacting to a customer complaint. At worst: You could try religious discrimination, but speaking a language is not covered under any anti-discrimination laws.
[QUOTE=Code3Response;50157086]At best: Its nothing more than Southwest reacting to a customer complaint. At worst: You could try religious discrimination, but speaking a language is not covered under any anti-discrimination laws.[/QUOTE] would we see the same reaction if the customer complaint was about someone speaking spanish? russian? bulgarian? there is a trend led by fearmongering towards arabs specifically, and while i can appreciate the thought of looking at all possibilities, i can't fathom disregarding the most obvious one
[QUOTE=Code3Response;50157086]At best: Its nothing more than Southwest reacting to a customer complaint. At worst: You could try religious discrimination, but speaking a language is not covered under any anti-discrimination laws.[/QUOTE] Wouldn't it be xenophobic racism?
[QUOTE=Swebonny;50156366]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.[/QUOTE] oh my god are you okay?
Southwest should get sued. It's not like he was threatening to bring down the plane, he was just speaking arabic.
[QUOTE=Code3Response;50157086]At best: Its nothing more than Southwest reacting to a customer complaint. At worst: You could try religious discrimination, but speaking a language is not covered under any anti-discrimination laws.[/QUOTE] ... Ethnic discrimination?
so does this mean that the terrorists win
I fucking hate shit like this. How sheltered and/or scared do you have to be to be afraid of a language? I love the sound of Arabic too, sucks that it gets repressed over bullshit.
She would love flying with the airline I just went on (Emirates) then. Everything is spoken in Arabic first, then English. This includes all pilot announcements and safety announcements. She would have probably thought the plane was hijacked before it even took off.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;50156366]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.[/QUOTE] i like that word a lot, reminds me of this: [img]http://www.fightersgeneration.com/np9/characters/marshall-law-t5dr.jpg[/img]
I bet that if it was a Southern Portuguese who said [I]oxalá[/I] (god willing, this is derivative from the Arabic [I]inshallah[/I]) they would have gotten the same treatment.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;50157258]oh my god are you okay?[/QUOTE] I'm fine now after 24 months therapy.
when will all this misery end
[QUOTE=SweetTea;50159855]when will all this misery end[/QUOTE] if we all spoke arabic we wouldn't have this problem
[QUOTE=Cloak Raider;50159902]if we all spoke arabic we wouldn't have this problem[/QUOTE] but then the terrorists would win
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