Posted on 04/21/2016 5:31:51 PM PDT by SatinDoll
[Original title too long: What the media didn’t tell you about Arabic-speaking Muslim student who got kicked off Southwest Airlines]
The mainstream media went ballistic after learning that an Iraqi student was removed from a flight after an alleged ‘Islamophobic’ woman reported him because she heard him speaking Arabic. Left wing pundits and Muslim advocacy groups demanded to know why “speaking Arabic” is a reason to remove someone from a plane and were calling for boycotts of Southwest Airlines.
What the media conveniently left out is that the (see-something-say-something) woman is a native Arabic speaker and said he was talking about terror group ISIS.
The media were in a tizzy after Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old student at the University of California, Berkeley, said he was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for speaking in Arabic during a phone conversation with his uncle prior to takeoff.
Makhzoomi told the Post that he called his uncle, who lives in Baghdad, after boarding a Southwest Airlines flight in Los Angeles earlier this month. He says the two had a conversation in Arabic about an event Makhzoomi attended the night before.
Makhzoomi says he received strange looks from a woman who then got up and he believes reported him to the flight crew. The next thing he knew, Makhzoomi says he was escorted off the plane and eventually taken into an interrogation room where he was questioned by the FBI before ultimately being released.
Well, on Tueday, on Happening Now on Fox News, guest host Heather Nauert provided some important additional details about the story that somehow did not make it into the Washington Post profile on Monday.
According to the Happening Now report, the woman who allegedly reported Makhzoomi to the airline crew was actually an Arabic speaker herself. This woman reportedly said that she overheard Makhzoomi mention ISIS and possibly another terror group during his phone conversation and that is why she alerted the airline crew.
Perhaps that explains why Makhzoomi has reportedly turned down offers from multiple lawyers to file a lawsuit against the airline. For the record, both lawyers who appeared in the legal segment on Happening Now where this report was discussed both agreed that under these circumstances, Makhzoomi likely does not have a valid claim against the airline.
There’s always more than the media reports.
The media is VERY selective about what they say about Muzzies.
Yes, and also (fill in the blank)
It might be time for a revolver thread this weekend, don’t cha’ think?
It is very easy to provoke a desired response when you leave out the pertinent facts.
The media always, always, every single time will report the preferred narrative. The facts only dribble out later, under pressure, and usually through “amateurs”, like Walid Shoebat.
BUMP
Time after time I hear of “if you see something, say something” coming back to bite the people who “see something” and/or the person who had been acting suspiciously being hailed as some sort of “victim”.
I swear its all orchestrated to make people just shut up and watch people do bad things.
“Thanks for posting this” Bump.
I just forwarded this link to a goodly number of folks I
know who believe they hear truth from their TVs and radios.
The media propaganda machine will do whatever it takes to protect their sacred diversity golden calfs:
Muslims, Minorities, Illegals, and Homos.
Nothing they do, even rape & murder, is worse than the sin of a concerned citizen “profiling” them and being a “racist bigot”.
I’m convinced the media loves dead innocent people.
She did not even have to be an arabic speaker. A young man speaking on the phone in arabic on a plane is enough to make most of the other passengers nervous even politically correct liberals.
“We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blond who
Comes on at five
She can tell you ‘bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It’s interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry”
- Don Henly
it’s part of critical theory (an extention of Marxism from the Frankfurt school which Obama is part of) that the west needs to be reduced to rubble so that from the ashes a new society can emerge. The weirdest part is that instead of being collectivist, it will be based on individualism. Complete fubar.
Yes, the full effect of the established media culture is:
IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING SO WE CAN CALL YOU A RACIST.
And a bunch of people DIED because of this in San Bernardino. Who’s next?
Thank goodness for the woman who spoke up.
LOL! Way ahead of his time!
As Mark Twain wrote: "If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed"
It was true in his day as it is true today.
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