barny_100 Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Have a read of this and see what you think. All very strange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 seems like more anti muslim paranoia to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab1 Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Have a read of this and see what you think. All very strange All very stupid indeed. One idiot of a woman spews her pathetic, ignorant diatribe and is repoted as fact that these people by praying are actually are up to no good. She suggests with air of authority that muslims only pray once at sunset, ha, shows how much she knows then. All in all a typically hysterical piece of stereotyping of muslims that most muslims are getting ****** off with, and who can blame them? Apart from this woman quoted in the article. The only worrying thing is that people like her pass off as normal in America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 These men were purposely acting suspiciously. If you act suspiciously post 9/11, you can count on being detained. Try making a joke about having a bomb in your luggage. Anyone flown recently in the US? My kids and I flew down to Los Angeles to visit family a couple weeks ago. The wait to get through security and into the gate area was longer than the drive to the airport and the flight combined! They either did this deliberately to sue the airlines and/or start a civil rights sh*tstorm, or they are very, very, stupid. Apart from this woman quoted in the article. The only worrying thing is that people like her pass off as normal in America. And you know "people like her" pass off as "normal" in America, because? Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex C. Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Something that keeps coming up (in the comments, amongst the ones suggesting that there is enough evidence to charge them with terrorist acts) is the whole 'could Christians pray in Saudi Arabia' (or similar) thing. Why is this so important? I find its brought up a lot by people who also advocate following the laws of the land where you are, or going home. Perhaps someone can enlighten me if America is any different, but don't you have religious freedom - why should they be not be allowed to pray, just because they can't in Saudi Arabia? If an American comes over here, they are allowed to drink, because the law and culture here says they can. That out of the way, whilst it seems suspicious, and its possible that they were planning something, at most it seems an attempt to scare people, and I even doubt that. I can't be sure as the article seems to have a somewhat bias in it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyesey Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 These men were purposely acting suspiciously. Wrong. Praying is not "acting suspiciously," and at least one member of staff should have brains enough to know so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barny_100 Posted December 2, 2006 Author Share Posted December 2, 2006 seems like more anti muslim paranoia to me Yeh not sitting in your own seat and instead sitting by all the exits isn't odd at all is it. Nor is asking for a belt extender but not even trying to use it. I'm not saying this was definitely anything specifically terrorist related but I do believe it is suspicious even if it was only an attempt to claim victim status when their actions were questioned - obviously people like you are quite happy to keep your blinkers on and shout islamaphobia as well. Anyway - this is the sort of thing you should be reading if you want to lose those blinkers- good, hard analysis and understanding of what is going on around us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Who'd want to be a monk these days eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 its not having blinkers on, its called not jumping on the bandwagon when 1 website seems to report something may be true, may not be true. can they not sit seprately? maybe they want to sit near the exits, maybe theyre scared of flying maybe they cant speak good english and so speak in arabic - i saw a couple of guys talking together in their language last time i came back on the coach, dont mean theyre suicide bombers so what if some of em had 1 way tickets only, maybe they wernt coming back, could only afford 1 way till they got there maybe they asked for a seat belt extender and then found they didnt need it after all or maybe they were out to cause trouble, were potential suicide bombers seems to me people are so paranoid, distrusting these days, specially about muslims, even people that look like they could be muslims analysing everybodys behaviour. now im afraid the suicide bombers HAVE won, theyve divided us, theyve destroyed our way of life by making us fearful and paranoid in everything we do </rant mode off> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sierra Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Here are two articles. One from CNN with footage of some of the men returning to the US Airways ticket counter the next day, dressed in western clothes and with a news crew in tow. Hmmm. One from The Washington Times I once saw a belligerent drunk woman and her equally inebriated companion refused boarding on a Southwest Airlines flight. Of course they claimed the airline was being unfair and treating them badly. Flying is not a right, it is a privilege. US Airways is a private business, and they decide who does or doesn't fly with them. EVERYONE, regardless of religion, ethnicity, etc, should know by now that you do not not mess around in airports or on airplanes, period. I do not believe for one second that these men (who certainly look like intelligent people) didn't know that their actions wouldn't arouse suspicion. Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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