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While on the plane, he called his uncle to tell him about the dinner and ended the phone call by saying “inshallah” — a common term used in Arabic that translates to “God willing.” But after he hung up, he noticed a female passenger eyeing him suspiciously. The passenger reported Makhzoomi, who was then removed from the flight and searched.
“The way they searched me and the dogs, the officers, people were watching me and the humiliation made me so afraid because it brought all of these memories back to me. I escaped Iraq because of the war, because of Saddam and what he did to my father,” Makhzoomi told the Daily Californian. “When I got home, I just slept for a few days.”
Two men, 29-year-old Maher Khalil and 28-year-old Anas Ayyad, who both moved to Philadelphia 15 years ago from Palestine, were speaking Arabic before their flight in the terminal this week, reports NBC Philadelphia. After overhearing them, another passenger on their flight approached the gate agent, demanding they be removed from the flight. The agent acquiesced, telling the pair that they wouldn’t be allowed to board because a passenger was afraid to fly with them.
“If that person doesn’t feel safe, let them take the bus,” Khalil, who owns two pizza parlors in Philadelphia, said to a Southwest Airlines gate agent, according to NBC Philadelphia. “We’re American citizens just like everybody else.”
Meanwhile plane loads of Arab speakers fly all over the world without incident with no planes falling out of the sky.
Buncha cowards. So all I've gotta do is walk up to you and utter a few words in Arabic, and you'll all pee your pants and run. Figures.
Better to be idiots than sorry I guess. Unbelievable how soft Americans have become.
All thanks to people like you who are all for banning people from carrying such dangerous objects like nail files on planes and think guns cause crime.
All thanks to people like you who are all for banning people from carrying such dangerous objects like nail files on planes and think guns cause crime.
Please. You're just as soft and panic stricken as everyone else. Stop it.
Hope he sues Southwest Airlines for elebenty bazillion dollars. If I were him, I'd be lawyering up and daydreaming about all the money he's going to win.
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