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"A Philadelphia pizza shop owner and his friend had to call 911 in Chicago's Midway airport Wednesday night in order to get on their flight home.
Maher Khalil and Anas Ayyad said they were profiled — asked to step aside during the boarding process because a fellow passenger said he was afraid to fly with them."
Reminds me of the Maz Jobrani comedy skit where he yells at his Arab friend to stop speaking Arabic while they're flying.
On the one hand, I can see where the nervousness comes from, given current events. But I also struggle with this, it's America and a melting pot.
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Excuse me people are eitherAmericans of a particular heritage or they are not Americans. I.e. Americans of Palestinian heritage, NOT Palestinian American.
I'm sick of these people who refuse to assemilate and just want to suck us dry. As for speaking aribic, the pizza owner should have told the other passenger in english to shut up, that he was an American and would speak whatever language he liked.
However, it is impolite to speak a foreign tongue around others who can't understand.
Excuse me people are eitherAmericans of a particular heritage or they are not Americans. I.e. Americans of Palestinian heritage, NOT Palestinian American.
I'm sick of these people who refuse to assemilate and just want to suck us dry. As for speaking aribic, the pizza owner should have told the other passenger in english to shut up, that he was an American and would speak whatever language he liked.
However, it is impolite to speak a foreign tongue around others who can't understand.
ok first of all, they're not sucking us dry. They own a pizza shop in Chicago.
2nd, I hear foreign languages all the time. It doesn't bother me. Are tourists not allowed to communicate in public?? If you ever go to NYC, you can count at least a dozen different languages being spoken.
"A Philadelphia pizza shop owner and his friend had to call 911 in Chicago's Midway airport Wednesday night in order to get on their flight home.
Maher Khalil and Anas Ayyad said they were profiled — asked to step aside during the boarding process because a fellow passenger said he was afraid to fly with them."
Reminds me of the Maz Jobrani comedy skit where he yells at his Arab friend to stop speaking Arabic while they're flying.
On the one hand, I can see where the nervousness comes from, given current events. But I also struggle with this, it's America and a melting pot.
GOOD! We are at WAR... The enemy is not a nation. The enemy is Evil intentions of a religion, itself.
There will always be unintended casualties in any war.
Welcome to the "HOLY WAR"
These are not normal times, as evidenced by the slaughter in Paris. I too would be a little leery of some mid east men on a flight I was on too. Overly cautious ? Maybe, but that whole area is suspect right now and we can't tell the good guys from the terrorists.
I bet during WWII people were also uneasy when a Japanese or German person was around.
However, it is impolite to speak a foreign tongue around others who can't understand.
Lots of people on planes are impolite. They bring oversized crap and call it carry-on. They get drunk. They recline their seats. They talk too loudly. They force us to listen to their electronics.
They don't get kicked off a plane for it.
Try an international airport anywhere in the world. People are speaking all sorts of languages. Are they all supposed to switch to Esperanto or something?
ok first of all, they're not sucking us dry. They own a pizza shop in Chicago.
2nd, I hear foreign languages all the time. It doesn't bother me. Are tourists not allowed to communicate in public?? If you ever go to NYC, you can count at least a dozen different languages being spoken.
Yeah, and they probably have half their extended family working there under the table and collecting SS disability, Medicaid, section 8, obamaphone, foodstamp card, etc.
I travel a lot. Long flights and by long I mean 13 hours and more. The people I rue flying with are Chinese and Russians. India people can be a challenge because of their perfumes. Arabs? Normally quiet and reserved.
Why Chinese? They asa group seem to think rules, manners, common social norms like waiting your turn in line, sitting in your assigned seats etc are optional.
I have never been bothered by Arabic fliers.
Hmmm Highschool kids might be even worse than Chinese. lol
Complaining about someone speaking Arabic at an airport is like 150 students out of 38,000 students getting a college President to resign. Same kind of whiney "safe place" menarching that goes on all the time. You have to support both if you support either of these cases, or you can not be a whiner and support neither. I vote neither.
But make a choice. Either scared little children get their way (at college or the airport) and if some people have to suffer for their safety so be it. Or they're (the whinering college student or the scared busines traveller) ignored and marginalized by those of us who are adults.
We can see which way its going already.
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