Four men thrown off American Airlines flight because they 'looked too Muslim'

[CopyBoy]

Four men were thrown off a flight because their Muslim appearance made crew feel "uneasy”, it is alleged.

The four fliers from Brooklyn were travelling with two other friends on a flight between Toronto and New York City when they claim they were asked to leave the plane operated by Republic Airways, a regional partner of American Airlines.

The men claim the airline “disgracefully engaged in discrimination” and that they were ejected from the flight “based upon their perceived race, colour, ethnicity”.

independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/four-men-thrown-off-american-airlines-flight-because-they-looked-too-muslim-a6821006.html

 

[7_Sorrows]

has the airline made a statement yet?

 

[Upgrade25]

A. So what if they’re Muslim?

B. How do we know they aren’t Syriac Christians?

C. Anyone can be a terrorist, whether Dylan Roof or Osama bin Laden.

 

[Joe_5859]

has the airline made a statement yet?

According to the story, the four men filed their lawsuit on Monday. The story doesn’t say when the whole ordeal actually transpired. I wouldn’t expect AA to comment on it since they are now in the middle of a lawsuit (and hadn’t even received the lawsuit by the time the article was written).

The headline is a bit misleading, though. They put “looked too Muslim” in quotation marks implying that someone from the airlines actually said such a thing. But the quote is nowhere in the article. It appears this story is taken from one that appeared the New York Daily News. NY Daily News uses that phrase in their headline without quotes. So the quotation is actually a quote from another news story, not the words of one of the airline employees.

Not to say that there isn’t something to the story. There could be. But when they engage in misleading reporting tactics to get the reader to have a particular emotional response, it makes me question the rest of the facts they report.

Fortunately, I’m not the judge hearing the lawsuit, so I don’t have to figure out what the truth of the matter really is.

 

[7_Sorrows]

According to the story, the four men filed their lawsuit on Monday. The story doesn’t say when the whole ordeal actually transpired. I wouldn’t expect AA to comment on it since they are now in the middle of a lawsuit (and hadn’t even received the lawsuit by the time the article was written).

The headline is a bit misleading, though. They put “looked too Muslim” in quotation marks implying that someone from the airlines actually said such a thing. But the quote is nowhere in the article. It appears this story is taken from one that appeared the New York Daily News. NY Daily News uses that phrase in their headline without quotes. So the quotation is actually a quote from another news story, not the words of one of the airline employees.

Not to say that there isn’t something to the story. There could be. But when they engage in misleading reporting tactics to get the reader to have a particular emotional response, it makes me question the rest of the facts they report.

Fortunately, I’m not the judge hearing the lawsuit, so I don’t have to figure out what the truth of the matter really is.

I guess we will have a wait and see attitude then…