Posted on 07/28/2007 1:42:03 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
Arab princesses kicked off British Airways plane to jeers and whistles after refusing to sit next to male strangers
Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next to male passengers they didn't know.
The dispute - in which the three princesses from the ultra-conservative Qatar royal family demanded segregated seating - left the London-bound plane delayed on a baking Italian runway for nearly three hours.
Furious passengers whistled and clapped as the row intensified before the captain eventually ordered the women to be escorted off the plane.
The princesses, wearing traditional Arab dress, were returning from a day's shopping in Milan. They arrived at the city's Linate airport and boarded Heathrow-bound flight BA 563, which was due to take off at 4pm on Thursday.
The women, all relatives of the oil-rich emir of Qatar, Bader Bin Khalifa Al Thani, were booked into business class in a party of eight which included the emir and an entourage of cooks, servants and other staff.
After passengers had fastened their seat-belts and the plane had taxied on to the runway, two male passengers in the entourage got up to protest about where the women were sitting.
According to the customs of Qatar and other Gulf states, women are not allowed to mix with men who are not relatives.
Cabin crew tried to rearrange the seats but passengers travelling together refused to give up their allotted places. The captain tried to mediate but after more than two and a half hours of wrangling he ordered the bulk of their royal party off the plane.
It is understood that five of the eight - including the princesses and the men who left their seats to protest - were removed.
Police and diplomats from the Qatar consulate in Milan were also called in before the plane eventually took off. The rest of the Qatar party left Milan later on an Alitalia flight.
A BA spokesman said: "The people were offloaded because they failed to comply with safety instructions when the aircraft was taxiing. Two passengers stood up and refused to sit down."
A spokesman at the Qatar embassy in Rome said: "This was a private matter and we have nothing to say."
Stay home and follow your customs.
Or come to the West and learn to follow ours.
Coming to the West and expecting us to change our ways is not an option.
Heh. They still “won” by grounding the plane for over frickin’ hours while they went Sharia on the airline.
They were aware beforehand, that men they might not know, fly, too?
Agreed!
Good for them for not kow towing to this misogynistic sexually twisted cult.
“Or come to the West and learn to follow ours.”
Better yet, stay where you are and don’t come here to f**k things up.
Check the wording carefully. Disinfo is altering the story already. This report doesn’t even jive with itself over who was objecting or when.
They were in Italy, bound for London. An according to the customs of Italy, all the men on board should have pinched the Princesses on the ass.
Unfortunately, no one has told these Muslims, before they get here, that salient fact - so they are expecting us to change to suit their wierd ways.
Seems to me that our State Department should make it clear before granting visas to Muslims that there are certain of their customes which will make them persona-non-grata in the U.S. and subject to immediate deportation.
First among them would be overt, and vocal praying in an airport or on an airplane.
Realistically, I think the Muzzies were doing it for the sake of being annoying to the infidels and seeing how far they could push
I didn’t see it in the story, but I can’t figure why this took this amount of time. There should, instead, have been nearly half a dozen stand-by ticket holders pleased with their good fortune.
Everyone has MISSED the real reason behind the Arab male’s objection to their women sitting next to Western men..
1. The “princesses” would discover that real men don’t smell like camel shit.
2. The “princesses” might observe that Western men are endowed with a “package” that puts their cowardly “men” to shame.
3. The “princesses” would discover that males can engage women in conversation that goes beyond treating them like cattle.
4. The “princesses” would get a close up and personal confirmation that not all men are short, fat, ugly, big nosed and wear beards soiled by mucus and insects.
Hey Qatari embassy weenie, it was a very public matter and don't try that stunt again. And you had better be smart enough not to say anything!! We in the West are tiring of this BS.
Exactly. I read elsewhere that 50 of 150 passengers aboard subsequently missed connections. I have a problem with the captain "mediating" for one instant, to say nothing of 2.5 hours. It should be the flight attendants' job to tell those who disrupt a flight "Sit down and shut up or else face arrest." If they don't comply then simply inform the captain to call the police and have the cops haul the criminals off the plane back at the gate. Then bar these individuals from your airline. This nonsense will stop only when we stop it.
A-rab princess ping........
This was a test.
If they got away with this, the next step was for male terrorists to dress up like muslim women to get on the airplane and remove potential defenders from the front of the plane.
Don’t forget, female attire is the costume of choice for these girly men islamofascists when they are trying to evade US forces.
“..our State Department should make it clear..”
Our State Department has no brass and wears kneepads when dealing with Muslims.
Makes you wonder how this group would have acted on a Greyhound bus....near a state prison.
screw these muzzies and the camel (I mean) plane they tried to fly in on!!!!
Verry interesting.
You are certainly thinking ahead.
That is exactly what could happen.
I’ll bet the clothing they wore and bought in Milan didn’t follow their customs at home.
I wonder how long it will take some watermelon lefty to proclaim BA and the pilot “Islamophobic” because they did not force the dhimmi passengers to rearrange their seating.
Don't forget the White House.
How many of the active Jihadists in Iraq are from our Friend and Ally...Saudi Arabia?
I have mixed emotions about this. My little girl is thrown onto flights all the time. I would prefer if she was seated next to a female.
The princesses really should have flown on a private jet.
I checked before I posted and nothing came up.
Arab Princesses Kicked Off British Airways Plane to Jeers and Whistles after Refusing to Sit...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872932/posts
Qatari royals halt British flight [Sheikh’s wives refused to sit near men]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872924/posts
I have to say Arabs have balls. If we had even half as big a set as they do we might be winning this conflict.
“This nonsense will stop only when we stop it.”
Amen to that.
Wahhabism rules the Mosque in the Gulf Arabs states (Saudi, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar).
Don’t think for a second that these people don’t want to see the West overrun by Islam.
Same thing happens in the “kingdom”. Once they are off the street and the shades are drawn they all let their hair down.
Saturday Night Real Men Ping to river rat’s Post #14
: )
Great!!! enough of this Islamic nonsense! If you want to be treated differently don’t look to us to do it! CONFORM OR BE CAST OUT! Tired of kissing A##!!!!
LOL!! That one got me laughing!!
This was a conflict that could have been easily avoided. The princesses could have simply breast-fed the male passengers, pre-flight, problem solved, and everyone goes away happy. heh
http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2007/05/imam_breastfeed.html
I caught that in the middle of the story. It was the men doing the complaining, right?
In many cases, the fight with Islam is a fight for the liberation of their women.
I sense a new tagline coming on. It may need some adjustemtns. Anybody help care to tweak it to improve the message?
I suppose I could start by spelling “terrorism” correctly.
Hee hee!
Its time for Islam to conform to the West, when in the West.
Muslims should leave the hate at home
“There should, instead, have been nearly half a dozen stand-by ticket holders pleased with their good fortune.”
True...but get this - they didn’t get up to complain until the plane had taxied to the runway.
“After passengers had fastened their seat-belts and the plane had taxied on to the runway, two male passengers in the entourage got up to protest about where the women were sitting.”
Muslims Mellowing According to Survey
The Bush Administration has cited a Pew Research Center poll as a justification for its decision to fund armaments for the Fatah faction of the Palestinian government. According to the poll, “only” 70 percent of Palestinian Muslims now believe suicide bombing is justified. This is down from the 94 percent figure from last year’s poll. The Administration also took encouragement from the poll showing that the United States’ image in Muslim-majority countries has risen to “abysmal” from last year’s “horrible.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Most news reports use the words “Arab princesses”, but I did a research on this and I found out that these 3 females were actually the wives of the Emir. Go to google and check it out. Those 3 women had no problem sharing one man, so why pretemd to be so pious just sitting near a strange man? This is goofy.
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