Mutiny on Flight 613

Daily Mail ^ | August 19, 2006 | CHRISTOPHER LEAKE and ANDREW CHAPMAN

[ErnBatavia]

The bad guys indeed are gaining some of their goals...I saw a snippet on TV a half hour ago about how a Florida high school will not allow "any liquids" into this season's football games.

By this action, some nutless, PC bureacrat tosses the Achmeds enough material to laugh themselves to sleep tonight....yep - they're accomplishing their perverted goals by stealing our freedoms.

[PghBaldy]

They are more conservative than Labour, but the important thing is they are the opposition.

[BluH2o]

Monarch is a British discount airline. Flown it out of Luton (pronounced Looton) north of London on occasion to places like Gibraltar. Good equipment ... their market is Brit vacationers desperately seeking sunnier climes.

[dervish]

didn't the passengers get the memo - no profiling.

From the common man, common sense.

[armymarinemom]

Get Off My Plane!!

[thoughtomator]

All devout Muslims are terrorists, because the Koran commands them to be. If they don't follow that command, they are not really Muslims, and are living by some other philosophy, regardless of what they call themselves.

[thoughtomator]

Why not just ban Arab-looking guys from flying at all?

That's exactly what should be done. But don't restrict it so narrowly; anyone coming from or going to a Muslim country should be barred from air travel, unless the plane is full of only their own kind. They want separate everything anyway... separate banks, separate law, etc., then separate air travel is the perfecly sensible way to go.

[NRA2BFree]

Good for the passengers!! IF the government won't profile, then it looks like the passengers will.

[ladyjane]

Patrick Mercer, the Tory Homeland Security spokesman, said last night: "This is a victory for terrorists. These people on the flight have been terrorised into behaving irrationally.

Patrick, when was the last time you and your family flew commercial?

[plenipotentiary]

However much Governments might delude themselves, the people are deciding for themselves.

No more muslims on flights, ships, trains.

Then the Muslims will realise how out on a limb, and unpopular they are.

Interesting that when faced with a perceived threat, it is the women and children who speak out most strongly. The primeval force of self preservation of future generations at work.

[Non-Sequitur]

That's exactly what should be done.

What about non-Arab looking Muslims? How do we protect ourselves against them? One of the guys arrested in Britain the other week was a white guy who converted. Another was a West-Indian man who converted. How do we ever protect ourselves against them? Maybe we should make everyone eat a pork chop before boarding?

[stm]

"All muslims/arabs are not terrorists...but all terrorists are muslim/arabs!"

I guess that depends on your definition of terrorists. Clearly members of the IRA can be called terrorists. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols could just as easily be called terrorists. Chavez and his bunch have long supported international terrorism so they themselves could just as easily be categorized as terrorists by association. That's the problem with broad generalizations, they can always be disputed.

[ml/nj]

Muslims should not be allowed to fly. Period.

You are SO unreasonable.

I would allow them to fly handcuffed to their seat.

ML/NJ

[plenipotentiary]

Halal Airlines?

[Phibes]

Profiling? Finally....what took so damn long?. Tired of Granny being compared to a 20 something muslin with soul less eyes!

[Cvengr]

Had they been honest honorable men seeking to work with their fellow man, they would have exuded a conscientious attitude in their behavior. IMHO, Their impatience telegraphs a far more adversarial spirit than in a case of mistaken identity.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I would rather fly with snakes on a plane than mooselims.

[Riley]

Asian appearance could mean anything, Indian, Chinese, Malaysian, Caucasian, Gherka and so on.

They're not Gurkhas. 'Asian' in context, is Britspeak for 'Middle Eastern'.

[stm]

That won't work either. I knew several Iraqi's that loved pork chop MRE's! :-)

[Celtjew Libertarian]

The trouble in Malaga flared last Wednesday as two British citizens in their 20s waited in the departure lounge to board the pre-dawn flight and were heard talking what passengers took to be Arabic

There's three times that it's said they were speaking what was thought to be Arabic, but they never say what language it was.

More information needed: What were they speaking?