Posted on 05/06/2011 10:34:25 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Two Muslim religious leaders say they were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis on Friday and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard.
Masudur Rahman, who is also an adjunct instructor of Arabic at the University of Memphis, said by phone from the terminal at Memphis International Airport that he and another imam had already been allowed to board their Delta Connection flight to Charlotte, N.C., before they were asked to get off the plane.
Transportation Security Administration spokesman Jon Allen in Atlanta confirmed the incident and said it was not initiated by that agency.
A Delta Air Lines spokeswoman said the flight was operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines, which is also based in Atlanta.
"We take security and safety very seriously and the event is currently under investigation," Atlantic Southeast spokesman Jarek Beem said Friday evening.
Both passengers are Memphis-area residents. Rahman said he was dressed in traditional Indian clothing and his traveling companion was dressed in Arab garb, including traditional headgear.
Rahman said he and Mohamed Zaghloul, of the Islamic Association of Greater Memphis, were cleared by security agents and boarded the plane for an 8:40 a.m. departure.
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He said a Delta manager apologized for the pilot's actions, but that he and Zaghloul never spoke directly with the pilot.
Ibrahim Hooper, of the American-Islamic organization, said the group will follow up with the airline and with the TSA to help ensure such incidents do not continue to occur.
Hooper said airline officials at Memphis tried to resolve the situation, but the pilot refused.
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Nope.
If Ibrahim Hooper is their buddy, nothing out of their mouths is worth spit.
Now see Delta made a big mistake here.
Toss them at 50,000 feet next time. Then they can’t talk about it.
I bet they didn’t get the TSA rub down either.
Well FAA FAR Part 121 rules are clear the PIC has the final say on the entire flight, if it goes and who flies.
and it was .......GUTSY!
Get a clue Muslim travelers. If you want to be accepted & play by our rules, perhaps a wardrobe change for travel might be the way to go?
In light of the killing of UBL and the direct threats made against America in retaliation for that death, you’d think it just might have occurred to these “religious leaders” - one a professor - to dress a little differently that day. A turban??? Really???
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It did occur to them. They were throwing it in our face.
I thought Hooper was the mouth piece for CAIR.
And NY cabbies won’t carry any one who smells of booze...what goes around, comes around..the shoe bomber made it through security.
Once they (the Muslims) clean op the crap that goes on in the name of their religion, they should be able to join the civilized world. Not until.
Arabs don't wear turbans. Traditional Arab headgear is a kaffiyeh namely a cloth (of different pattern marking the tribe of the wearer) bound with a rope to keep it in place)
Indian non-Moslems wear turbans which can be of different kinds from the Sikh (3 kinds) to Rajput to Maratha
Rahman dressed in "traditional Indian clothing" doesn't tell me anything, for India is truly a continent with multiple "countries", cultures and "nations" -- the traditional wear of a man from Keral would be a long loose shirt made from cotton with a sarong-like ankle-length white cotton cloth with a border. No hat or turban
A Tamilian would wear a shorter "lungi" (that's the cloth over the legs
A person from North-Central india would wear a dhoti,or for formal occasions a Nehru/Chinese-type jacket, while a Moslem from North and North-West India and from Pakistan would wear a Pathani (a long loose shirt and baggy pajamas under it).
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