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“This is what Islamophobia looks like”: Muslim demands apology after being removed from plane

Apr 18, 2016 11:58 am By Robert Spencer

Whether or not Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was treated unjustly, the effect of his charge of “Islamophobia” will be to intimidate people into thinking that they must not say anything when Muslims are behaving suspiciously on airplanes. The participation of Hamas-linked CAIR, which encourages Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement, is further reason to be suspicious. Hamas-linked CAIR’s Zahra Billoo said: “For whatever reason, he was not allowed to fly on the airplane and yet he was cleared by law enforcement. We worry that they’re being overzealous.” And so for fear of being “overzealous” in the future, law enforcement officials may let Muslims who are genuine threats fly on airplanes. More non-Muslims will be murdered, but what do Islamic supremacists care about that?

Khairuldeen Makhzoomi

“Iraqi seeks apology after being removed from Oakland-bound plane,” by Steve Rubenstein and Kimberly Veklerov, SFGate, April 16, 2016:

A UC Berkeley student who was removed from a Southwest Airlines plane after a fellow passenger heard him speaking in Arabic on his mobile phone is still waiting for an explanation and an apology from somebody.

Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old Iraqi refugee and the son of a slain Iraqi diplomat, had just boarded his Oakland-bound flight at Los Angeles International Airport on April 6 when he called and spoke with an uncle on his mobile phone.

After the call ended, Makhzoomi said a female passenger looked at him, got up and left her seat. A short time later, an airport employee told Makhzoomi to get off the plane.

Makhzoomi said his phone conversation had been with an uncle in Baghdad. They had discussed a meeting of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council that Makhzoomi had attended.

After he was led from his seat, Makhzoomi said he was questioned in the aircraft jet way by a series of security and police officers. At one point, he told them he was a victim of discrimination.

“I told them, ‘This is what Islamophobia looks like,’” he said. “And that’s when they said I could not get on the plane, and they called the FBI.”

Makhzoomi, who is studying political science and near Eastern languages and literature at Berkeley, said he was interrogated at length, sniffed by police dogs and subjected to an intimate body search in front of passersby. FBI agents arrived and questioned him some more….

Southwest, in a statement, confirmed it had removed Makhzoomi from the plane because of what it called “potentially threatening comments made aboard our aircraft” and “further discussion.” The airline said it would not have acted “without a collaborative decision rooted in established procedure.” It declined to elaborate….

Islamic leaders said they were disappointed to learn of what happened to Makhzoomi and worried that racial profiling was involved in his being removed from the plane.

“We’re concerned that this is part of a trend of Muslims being profiled and their right to travel being impacted,” said Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the [Hamas-linked] Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Billoo said the airline owed Makhzoomi and the public a clear explanation of the incident and a promise to review its procedures for handling similar incidents.

“For whatever reason, he was not allowed to fly on the airplane and yet he was cleared by law enforcement,” Billoo added. “We worry that they’re being overzealous.”

The incident in Los Angeles was followed by a similar removal of a Southwest passenger from a flight in Baltimore on Wednesday. That passenger, a woman wearing an Islamic scarf, was asked to leave the plane after she attempted to change seats during an intermediate stop on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Chicago. No other details about that incident were immediately known.

Makhzoomi, who said he has taken two dozen flights on Southwest in the past year or so and is a member of its frequent flier plan, said he was seeking nothing more from the airline than an apology.

“I don’t want money,” he said. “I don’t care about that. The message of Islam is forgiveness. That’s all I want.”

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  1. ICH says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    the message of islam is forgiveness ?

    REALLY ?!!!!

    hahahahahahhahahahahahah

    • JawsV says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 2:33 pm

      Yes, that’s hilarious! Islam has nothing whatsoever to do with forgiveness, a Christian concept from the teachings of Jesus. Islam is UN-forgiving, UN-merciful and non-compassionate. Christianity and Islam are total opposites.

    • paul says

      Apr 20, 2016 at 2:33 am

      If you knew how incredibly loud he was, the anger in his voice, the threatening gestures, the stink of sweat and excrement you might think by the way he glared daggers at you he might be a bit hostile to allowing infidels on his plane. And this a peaceful one.

      Its called body language! … and now CAIR, funded by Palestinian handouts which America gave, will fund a lawsuit. It just stinks.

      Thank Lutheran Family Services for bringing him and his family to your world.

  2. Bruce says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 12:16 pm

    Hello? What can you expect when people see a muslim the first thing that comes in their mind is all the killings and attacks muslims do and have been doing all over the world .Muslims lie like sand pouring out of a sand box using what they call Taquiyya that is in their belief system that says to a point that if it helps you in then you can lie . People don’t know a so-called good muslim from a bad -murderous one. I realize not all muslims are bad ones ,but who knows when one of them will jump up and scream and knife someone? Their ideology is to take over the world and that islam will rule. Personally I have my own way of dealing with them . Tell them about Jesus and His love for them .

    • mortimer says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 4:06 pm

      Makhzoomi claimed: “The message of Islam is forgiveness.”

      His claim is incorrect. The answer is more complex. He is actually concerned about a matter of Islamic justice.

      Islam’s message is actually ‘justice’, since Islam is a ‘deen’, a system of laws and governance. Whoever follows Sharia law is just. Kafirs do not follow Sharia and are therefore ‘unjust’.

      Under Islamic justice, a kafir may not defame a Muslim, even if justified. That is called ‘slander’ in Sharia law.

      We cannot win: on the one hand, if something appears suspicious, do we report it and save lives or do we report it and receive criticism for a false alarm?

      • Westman says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 6:44 pm

        I’m waiting to hear ALL of what he said. Southwest “..removed Makhzoomi from the plane because of what it called ‘potentially threatening comments made aboard our aircraft’” . He’s not doing the usual, “I’ll sue”, so there must be more to the story and witnesses.

        • Mark Swan says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 2:39 am

          “potentially threatening comments made aboard our aircraft” and “further discussion.” The airline said it would not have acted “without a collaborative decision rooted in established procedure.”

          “We’re concerned that this is part of a trend of Muslims being profiled and their right to travel being impacted,” said Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the [Hamas-linked] Council on American-Islamic Relations.

          But We can certainly be sure it does not trouble Him a bit that our entire world of travel
          has forever been impacted by His kind…the cost to this nation goes so far beyond financial cost which has been tremendous…We have lost so many personal freedoms
          because of increased security, in trying to keep everyone safe from Muslims.

        • Jack Diamond says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 1:56 pm

          As others have pointed out, he was not only speaking Arabic he mentioned “a terrorist group”, supposedly the Islamic State. He ended the conversation with “Inshallah.” The woman reporting the conversation spoke Arabic and was rightfully concerned for the safety of the flight. He can apologize. The other possibility is it was a deliberate provocation, hence CAIR.

        • Angemon says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 5:35 pm

          By the sound of it they drew inspiration from The Dictator:

  3. KrazyKafir says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 12:21 pm

    I notice a lot of Muslims like to arrogantly mess with people in these situations, their goal of intimidation is always achieved, and if the infidel raises concern, they get to play the victim card. If the infidel doesn’t raise concern, they know they’ve at least intimidated them. Always playing games with the kuffar.

  4. Richard Paulsen says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 12:24 pm

    Have you seen this? Migrants fighting in Stalingrad Métro Paris.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 9:22 pm

      These Muslim thugs are brawling with each other as well as attacking Infidels.

      • Richard Paulsen says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 5:52 pm

        Right.

  5. Jan says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 12:26 pm

    I think he has a legitimate complaint. Muslims should have the same right to travel that other people have. Everyone goes through security at the airport and is permitted on the plane if security clears them.

    If the concern is about misuse of cell phones to communicate criminal intentions, why don’t they ban cell phones on planes, and make everyone pack them in their checked luggage?

    • Sandra says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 1:05 pm

      He may be perfectly innocent, but his predicament is a consequence of Islam, and it’s teachings. Islamic terrorists in this country and around the world are murdering, torturing, raping, non-Muslims, as well as their own people who don’t agree with their “kind” of Islam. There ARE consequences to behavior, and, sadly, innocent Muslims are thrown into the same suspicious pot as the guilty ones. No one, in this country or other countries, can afford to not be diligent, to not be suspicious, to not “check out” those who might cause suspicion in others. This is the world that Islam and its terrorists have created for all of us now – including other innocent Muslims.

      • mortimer says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 4:11 pm

        Sandra wrote: “his predicament is a consequence of Islam, and it’s teachings”

        Agree. Islam teaches taqiyya and jihad. With a doctrine like taqiyya, it is impossible to know when a Muslim is telling the truth or lying about jihad.

        Muslims suspect other Muslims because they know the teaching of taqiyya.

        • Anne Smith says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 5:46 am

          I say well done to the airline concerned. If I had been a passenger on that plane and someone was blathering away in Arabic just before take off I, too, would have been extremely alarmed.

          The more airlines and security personnel act like this the better. It’s time Muslims are made to understand that we don’t like their bombing ways and murderous inclinations and if they want to travel they can conform like the rest of us.

          Passenger profiling should have been brought in years ago. Why ask little grey haired old English ladies to remove their shoes and belts while the burka clad ones are allowed to proceed unchecked without removing anything. I saw this at Luton airport, we were all given the third degree while a group of Muslims were allowed to wander through without so much as removing a headscarf. Disgraceful.

    • JawsV says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 2:38 pm

      Are you kidding? Ever heard of Islamic Jihad? How about the mass-murdering Muslims worldwide? What are you, ignorant? The passenger had EVERY RIGHT to be fearful of the Mohammedan and his “inshallah” BS. Islam has created the “See something Say something.” I would have done the same as the passenger.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 4:01 am

        Maybe that passenger understands Arabic.

        • Michael Copeland says

          Apr 20, 2016 at 4:50 am

          The passenger was indeed a native Arabic speaker.
          “both lawyers who appeared in the legal segment on Happening Now where this report was discussed both agreed that under these circumstances, Makhzoomi likely does not have a valid claim against the airline.”
          http://www.barenakedislam.com/2016/04/20/what-the-media-didnt-tell-you-about-arabic-speaking-student-who-got-kicked-off-southwest-airlines/

    • Custos Custodum says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 5:00 pm

      Khair-ul-deen (“goodness of the Islamic faith”) studies poli-sci and communist Berkeley and is the son of a Muslim politician.

      Seeing his background and the incriminating involvement of CAIR, you can be SURE that he acted in a deliberately threatening and suspicious manner to scare another passenger and provoke yet another incident with an airline.

      Most likely, Khair-ul-deen intentionally used some words in English and/or Arabic that would seem threatening to a casual bystander, e.g. “Allahu Akbar” or “terrorist.” He probably took care that these threat words were embedded in a seemingly innocuous sentence, e.g. “The lady next to me is worried I might be a terrorist.” (Deliberately using the English word “terrorist” rather than the Arabic term.)

      In subsequent communications with Southwest, he probably also followed the CAIR-provided script by using threats and claiming “racism.”

      Interesting sidelight: the “Los Angeles World Affairs Council” attended by Khair-ul-deen may itself be a front for Hamas-linked CAIR’s activities in LA.

      The airline staff deserve our sympathy and support for standing up to this form of harassment.

      • Nan Barr says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 7:22 pm

        I agree with you 100%… you are most definitely on the money!! It was planned from the start and right out of the CAIR( N), ” LET’s SUE SOMEBODY” playbook.

        Cair(n) is what some Southern Scots-Irish American farmers and ranchers call manure and BS : ) LOL.

        Had not thought about that word since being a child on a cattle ranch in Florida. AGES ago.

    • Mirren10 says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 6:53 pm

      Jan says:

      ”I think he has a legitimate complaint.”

      No, he doesn’t. Any innocent passenger would realise speaking Arabic on a mobile phone, whilst on a *plane*, would raise legitimate concerns, and would refrain from doing so. Robert Spencer himself has been questioned at airports because of the word ”jihad” on his laptop – did he whine and complain ? No, he accepted the airport authorities were doing their job. Their job being to prevent threats as much as possible.

      • Mirren10 says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 6:55 pm

        If you ask me, this was either a deliberate attempt to frighten people, and therefore play the victim card, or it was a dry run.

        • Nan Barr says

          Apr 18, 2016 at 7:30 pm

          The DRY run thing, still scares me. That actor , James Woods , who was on a plane before 9/11( who is a math wizard from M.I.T. ) spotted the 9/11 dry run out of Boston and reported it to the FBI, but too late to actually have it investigated.

          God bless him !! He said on a late night talk show not long ago that he still VERY sad about the situation.

          WHEN you see something, SAY something, then it is up to the authorities. Let go, YOU did your bit!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 9:33 pm

      Jan wrote:

      Everyone goes through security at the airport and is permitted on the plane if security clears them.
      ……………………………

      This was true of the 9/11 hijackers, as well. How dare some “filthy Infidel” say anything after that!

      More:

      If the concern is about misuse of cell phones to communicate criminal intentions, why don’t they ban cell phones on planes, and make everyone pack them in their checked luggage?
      ……………………………

      Why don’t the Kuffar suffer more and more, and jump through more hoops so that we can accommodate violent Islam? Really, we are not doing enough to appease Islam now. Bad dhimmis…

      • somehistory says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 10:10 pm

        If not for a few cells working on Flight 93, the people on the ground would not have known what was going on in that plane, and the ones on the plane, esp the “Let’s Roll” guys who realized they had to do something on their own, would likely have sat down as those on the planes that flew into the Towers and the Pentagon had done.

        But, they did find out due to having cell phones, making and receiving calls. They had to make quick plans. The moslim terrorists who took over those planes had their plans all laid out ahead of time and didn’t need phones on the planes.

        Unlimited access for moslims and total restrictions on the rest of us are what moslims want and are working hard to obtain.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 1:59 pm

          *Very* important point, somehistory.

          I was thinking of it as just one more inconvenience for airline passengers to suffer because of the threat of Jihad–but you are quite right that it is way more than that.

    • James says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 8:46 am

      You are wrong. Just because you passed security does not mean you get to act inappropriately. In this case, he was talking about terrorism in Arabic (gleaned from a Yahoo article) and saying “God willing”, which is what many terrorists say. I would expect to be asked to deplane if I started talking about bombs and terrorism on a plane. It’s just common sense.

  6. Angemon says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:00 pm

    At one point, he told them he was a victim of discrimination.

    “I told them, ‘This is what Islamophobia looks like,’” he said.

    Whether or not he was up to something, this is a genuinely suspicious situation. They were questioning him, with no indication that they knew he was a muslim, and he tried to play the islamophobia card? Red flag.

    • JawsV says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 2:40 pm

      No such thing as “islamophobia.” Fearing Muslims and their mass-murder Jihad ideology is one hundred percent legit.

      • Nan Barr says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 7:32 pm

        What would be the little word game for ” just hating their frickin’ sharia law”????

  7. HarveyMushman says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    A phobia is an irrational fear. Fear of muslims is not irrational because a good percentage of them really do want to kill you….

    • JawsV says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 2:41 pm

      As the Koran tells them to (Jihad).

  8. somehistory says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:23 pm

    . “The message of Islam is forgiveness. That’s all I want.”
    ****************************************************************
    Just taking this part of his complaint: He “want(s)” “forgiveness.”
    He wishes to be forgiven, poor boy, for all the trouble he caused and the fear he caused to others by his speaking in arabic, into a phone, on a plane.
    *********************************************************
    What he is *pretending* he wants is for the airline to make an apology for acting prudently for the safety of the other passengers.
    He really wished to make them grovel and bow to his superiority (fake superiority in moslim minds only). If they don’t grovel and bow, he will take legal action in order to force their bowing and paying money. (That is the job of billhoo…she is a *lawyer*)
    **************************************************************

    Because if he really believed “the message of islam is forgiveness”…he would just *forgive* them and go on with his life.
    Isn’t it funny how the *message* changes to suit the case of the troublemakers?
    islam is peace, islam is tolerance, islam is forgiveness, etc.

    What islam isn’t is worth anything. It has no value, no merit, no virtue. There is nothing good in islam.
    There is no *forgiveness*, no *tolerance* no *peace*…in islam. There is only devilish evil.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 4:14 pm

      Disagree. Sharia law demands ‘revenge’, but forgiveness is optional.

      • somehistory says

        Apr 18, 2016 at 4:29 pm

        Since he wasn’t hurt, only inconvenienced….which he brought upon himself on purpose…no one owes him an apology and if he *preaches forgiveness*…then he should forgive their mistrust of him and move on. True forgiveness in a case such as this would be him not demanding an apology and not getting moslim lawyers involved and claiming victim status…esp since he was at fault.
        Standing by the *no forgiveness* as they always exact something for anyone showing them any slight or what they call dishonor.

        • Mirren10 says

          Apr 18, 2016 at 6:57 pm

          ”True forgiveness in a case such as this would be him not demanding an apology and not getting moslim lawyers involved and claiming victim status…esp since he was at fault.”

          Exactly, somehistory.

  9. Hoekom Jy My Haat says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 1:31 pm

    Well, if he finds it uncomfortable here I suppose he could go back to whichever cesspit it was from which his family originally come. I am sick to death of these muzzie instigators who go out of their way to cause situations. Islam is truly a fifty column in the United States.

    • JawsV says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 2:43 pm

      He’s from Iraq. Return to your fabulous Islamic homeland!

    • Dude says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 5:29 pm

      Agree! Why is he studying here? Go back to the “great scholarship” (tm Malcolm Turnbull) that abounds in muslim countries, where there is no islamophobia and no one will look at you sideways when you say allahu akbar on a plane.

  10. Eddie Delahoussaye says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 2:23 pm

    CAIR is a terrorist organization,everytime something like this happens there they are with a lawsuit,Islam is far from religion of peace an I mean very very far from peace,they follow a pedophile,murder,thief an he was so much more,I’m talking about the Pedophile Prophet Mohammed,he has got to be one of the most horrible persons in history,Islam suckers all these people into following this slimeball pile of shit,an the way they do it is bye the sword,they threaten you if you leave Islam you will be instantly killed for leaving Islam,an the people in CAIR are the ones who dole out the threat,every person in CAIR are scum nothing but,why would anyone convert to Islam just look at all the Moslem countrys they are all Shit holes so why would anyone want to convert to Islam?? So when a Moslems comes to the west he or she needs to shut the Fuck up about converting anyone to that Piss poor Cult its not even a Religion.

  11. Stephen says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 2:32 pm

    Khairuldeen Makhzoomi by this action is participating in jihad of the word as instructed by Mohammad and he gets the same reward of the jihadis who cut off the kafirs head. I don’t care at this point if his treatment was unjust who goes through a single day without being treated unjustly in one form or another? It’s jihad pure and simple, Fu** it and fu** them. What we need is another Crusade against this evil!

    • JawsV says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 2:45 pm

      Bring Back The Crusades! But, this time – WIN.

      • Champ says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 11:49 pm

        Hear, hear!!

  12. Alan Derpowitz says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    I swear I’ve heard this story before. Is there a way to find similar stories from years past? I tried Google, but as with all stories CAIR has gotten involved in, this version is reposted everywhere.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 9:47 pm

      Here are a couple of similar stories, Alan:

      “Man screaming ‘jihad, jihad’ is wrestled to ground on DC to Denver flight”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/03/man-screaming-jihad-jihad-is-wrestled-to-ground-on-dc-to-denver-flight

      “Flying Imams’ lawsuit ‘appears to be the latest component in a national campaign to intimidate airlines and government agencies from acting prudently to ensure passenger safety’”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/03/flying-imams-lawsuit-appears-to-be-the-latest-component-in-a-national-campaign-to-intimidate-airline

      • Alan Derpowitz says

        Apr 19, 2016 at 12:14 am

        Thank you. I was aware of those. What I mean is I know I’ve read of this supposed misunderstanding of “inshallah” and “shahid” on a plane before.

        I’ve been on left leaning forums where such strangely perfect stories get recycled every few years. That’s why I’m suspicious.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 19, 2016 at 2:02 pm

          I see what you mean, Alan.

          And yes–I doubt he was just innocently speaking in Arabic. Likely some troubling phrases caught the attention of the people who reported him.

  13. Sam Hawkins says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 3:27 pm

    I saw a news item reporting on this incident and they add an important piece of information missing from the quoted SF Gate piece. Namely, that by his own admission, he talked about ISLAMIC STATE with his uncle on the cell phone. Figure that the female passenger who notified cabin crew overheard that snippet, maybe her Arab language skill is only sufficient to recognize a few key words and phrases, and that she reported him out of an abundance of caution.

    For this, she deserves to be praised, not criticized. Better safe than dead. And CAIR can go fly a kite (was going to write something more colorful, but remembered that Jihad Watch is a family-friendly venue LOL).

    • Hope says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 3:33 pm

      Makes you wonder what other snippets of information have been suppressed by the MSM. This guy probably became belligerent and arrogant under questioning, and made his own situation worse.

    • Dude says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 5:21 pm

      Very interesting. I was wondering if maybe she understood arabic and that’s why she alerted the crew.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 18, 2016 at 9:48 pm

      Thank you for that *important* piece of information, Sam.

      It does not surprise me.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 21, 2016 at 1:40 am

        I *knew* there was more to this story than his just speaking Arabic–this is confirmed by Bare Naked Islam:

        “What the media didn’t tell you about Arabic-speaking Muslim student who got kicked off Southwest Airlines”

        http://www.barenakedislam.com/2016/04/20/what-the-media-didnt-tell-you-about-arabic-speaking-student-who-got-kicked-off-southwest-airlines/

        “The mainstream media and their pals at designated terrorist group CAIR went ballistic after learning that an Iraqi student was removed from a flight after an alleged ‘Islamophobic’ woman reported him after overhearing him speaking Arabic. What the media conveniently left out is that the (see something say something) woman is a native Arabic speaker and said he was talking about terror group ISIS.”

  14. mortimer says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 4:39 pm

    Khairuldeen Makhzoomi complained about ‘Islamophobia’.

    Is fear of Islam a good thing? Or a bad thing?

    Mohammed said, “It is expected that the nations will call other nations to share them against you (Muslims) as the eaters call each other to eat from the food in front of them in a large wooden plate A person asked, Will that happen because of our small number on that day? The Prophet said, No. Your number will be great, but you will be rubbish like the rubbish of flood-water. And certainly ALLAH WILL REMOVE FROM THE HEARTS OF ENEMIES THE FEAR OF YOU and surely Allah will throw Wahn in your hearts. A person asked, What is Wahn, O Messenger of Allah? The Prophet said, Wahn is to love this world and to hate death.” – Abu Dawud 4284

    Mohammed said ‘Fear of Islam’ is a good thing. Mohammed is the authority on Islam, not Makhzoomi.

    Of interest, also, is Makhzoomi’s first name ‘Khairuldeen’, meaning ‘The Deen (system of Islam) is a Good Thing’. The Koran says that people must speak only ‘The Good Thing’ (of Islam) or remain quiet…this is censorship.

    Kindly note that CAIR is a homonym of KHAIR and was chosen to suggest that CAIR’s main purpose is to censor and whitewash bad news about Islam.

    However, it can be claimed that all news about Islam is in fact bad news, since Islam’s ‘deen’ (system) is repressive.

  15. Robert Crawford says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 5:20 pm

    How does a student afford all that travel?

  16. Dude says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 5:35 pm

    I am sooooo sooooo sick of their whining and complaining!!!

  17. August_West says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 6:48 pm

    I travel 75% of the work week on flights all over the US. I frequently fly Southwest. I have noticed a stronger “Islamic” presence in airports of late. I suspect airlines are getting more and more compaints from Muslims that dont make the news. I also suspect that airline executives have a reaction to recent events such as passengers yelling out “Allahu Akbar” that they don’t talk about in public.

    As consumers we have power as well these are all actions which I have taken within the last year:

    1)Contact Southwest customer service and investor relations and let them know that I support their action in this case. I view the actions that they took in this case as their direct responsibliy to ensure the saftey of their customers. I let them know that a change in their position will adversly impact my desire to fly with the airline.

    2)I move when a muslim sits next to me wearing traditional dress. You can do this on Southwest. I dont move in cases which would put me in the middle seat.

    3)When I have no choice I will use the airlines internet services to review the Koran and make sura 9 5 clearly visible on my computer to the muslim for an extended period of time. I do not engage in conversation with the muslim under any circumstances, oh and he/she does not get any arm rest space!!!

    One thing that I would like to see is an organized 1 day consumer led boycott of US airtravel with the specific intent of illustrating to the airlines the concerns that the public has over safety. Large numbers of muslim airline employees serving security, bagage handlng, food preparation, maintenance and other functions poses a security threat. A consumer led boycott would be a good way to illustrate the concern to the airlines.

  18. gravenimage says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 9:18 pm

    “I don’t want money,” he said. “I don’t care about that. The message of Islam is forgiveness. That’s all I want.”
    …………………

    No–what he wants to do is flog “Islamophobia” so that no one dare react to suspicious Muslims.

    By the way, this Mohammedan lives in the town right next to mine, and has wormed his way into my alma mater.

    • Mark Swan says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 3:05 am

      He seems to be a CAIR plant

  19. citycat says

    Apr 18, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    I found this somewhere written on a stone on the web years back. Can’t recall whose. I think the third line of five goes some way to describe the folly of the use of the word “islamophobia”
    — —
    I AM LIKE THE SUN: THERE’S ONLY ONE OF ME./
    I’M LIKE THE LAST BEAT OF YOUR HEART: NO SOUND ESCAPES MY HOLLOW./
    ‘” DO NOT PUBLISH WHAT YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND: COPIES DO NOT CEMENT TRUTH THEY BURY IT/ ‘”
    IF YOU BELIEVE IN STONY MEN, THEY’LL SKEWER YOUR SMILE./
    STICK TO SOFT SURFACES: YOUR SMILE IS NEVER THE SAME SURPRISE
    — —
    The word Islamophobia is used again and again and causes familiarity and the general acceptance of it as a word. A phobia is a personal thing, not an enmasse thing. Islaam is laughing at the use of the word ISLAMOPHOBIA.
    If anyone has a phobia under the same logic then that is Muslims, who enmasse constantly deride everything that is not Islamic.
    They’re offended
    No
    They take offence
    Crazy

  20. Lexa456 says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 3:24 am

    As long as the “innocent, moderate” Muslims around the world continue to sit out the situation with the IS instead of helping the Western powers to fight it, as long as they will have to endure all reasonable “Islamophobia”. That man should have spoken the language of the country he lives in. Especially on the plane.

    Muslims MUST distance themselves vehemently from the ISIS ideology. If Islam was a Religion of peace (and forgiveness? lmao) they would have done so already, but they don’t. And that speaks for itself.

  21. خَليفة says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 3:50 am

    Supremists believe they are the only ones entitled.

    What about all those oppressed Christians in the ME, don’t they deserve apologies for all the maltreatment by Muslims?

    Muslims are such hypocrites…

  22. Rufolino says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 4:27 am

    Why is this man so very surprised and outraged by people’s suspicions ? Has he simply not noticed all the horrendous jihadi attacks recently perpetrated by Moslems ? He could at least have admitted that the suspicions do have a point. But would he admit that ? – I must be joking.

  23. Expat88 says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 6:37 am

    “The incident in Los Angeles was followed by a similar removal of a Southwest passenger from a flight in Baltimore on Wednesday. That passenger, a woman wearing an Islamic scarf, was asked to leave the plane after she attempted to change seats during an intermediate stop on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Chicago. No other details about that incident were immediately known.”

    That is funny, because I am sure the woman thought it was normal for her to be moving seats in between flights. I lived in the Middle East for many years and flew on many different airlines in the region and one thing that always happened on those flights was that the passengers were always moving around and changing seats, and even walking around in the aisles when the seatbelt signs were still on (not to mention trashing all the restrooms where they were practically unusable within a short time). The flight attendants (at the time most were Western) would go crazy trying to make everyone sit down or get in their appropriate seats. It was often like a really bad comedy show. I was asked to move many times to accommodate people who wanted to sit together. I am assuming that sometimes it was due to flights being booked at the last minute and not being able to get enough seats for a family to all sit together (lack of planning ahead). Also, a lot of passengers would jump up and start getting their belongings out of the overhead compartments before the plane was landing and start trying to walk up the aisles to the exits after the plane was landed but still taxing to the gate and the seatbelt signs were still on. The flight attendants would yell but no one would listen. It was a nightmare. It is funny that Islam is so strict and has so many rules, but the people are so out of control and can’t follow simple instructions, especially if it is a Western person trying to enforce something. They do whatever they want and have no respect for authority (especially if it is from a non-Muslim).

  24. ByGeorge says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 7:07 am

    Islam means “Submission.” Islamophobia translates to = Self protection! Enough said!

  25. Baucent says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 7:20 am

    The whole situation smells of a set up. He phones an uncle in Iraq when seated in the aircraft to talk about a meeting he went to where the UN secretary general attended. Why? Why phone an uncle in Iraq from the aircraft? Why would the uncle be so interested in the meeting anyway? The airline suggests his behaviour became threatening and that was the reason for the removal from the plane. All in all it seems to me like a publicity stunt to claim Islamophobia was at play. Notice how he raises that point when he was being questioned, obviously a hot button.

  26. Alistair cromley says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 10:33 am

    Reminds me of the Arab Muslim family who were “thrown off a plane”. They screamed islamophobia and CAIR jumped onto their case. Turns out they were told they couldn’t board the plane as their kids car seat wasn’t an approved safety device.

  27. Edward says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    “This is what Islamophobia looks like”: Muslim demands apology after being removed from plane –

    “Islamphopedia” rubbish, the lady passenger aboard the SW airliner was simply using her innate self preservation attribute called “being prudent”, which is even practiced by humans of sound minds.

    What is this that blinds the cognizance of man that makes them to look the other way when Islam is in its middle of causing great misery to innocents of the so called “unbelievers” as has been referred by the muslim world for the past +1450 years?

    A side story: My 22 year old grandson in a recent conversation shared a story about a 60 year old Syrian muslim immigrate (since 1993). Recently Carlos innocently and none callously offered gummy bear candies to his co-worker, mohammad, but the devote muslim unabashedly refused the sharing because of the gelatin ingredient in the candy (sourced from pig skins). Mohammad explained to my grandson that he would be greatly disobedient against the quran if he ate them. Well it seems the intense encounter was short lived…saying bygone be bygones as the sayings say! However, fast forward to 2-3 weeks later there was another mixed emotions culture encounter that caused mohammad to flip! This after when mohammad shared a dish of long grain rice to my grandson perhaps prepared by his wife.

    In contrast my grandson graciously accepted the dish without reluctance, but his compliment irked the guy, well actually castigated my grandson for being offensive just because he voiced a compliment.

    What!

    All had my grandson simply had said after eating the food, “I like the rice how is it made”.

    It beats me why this guy reacted to this compliment.

    Could it be that all muslims have a tendency to not give their wife’s any sort of compliment(s), but somebody did?

    Could it be that Muslims have a dormant conflict between the muslims mindset of an Islamic conscious and subconscious; that makes it hard for them to reciprocate gratitude when someone shares with them or offers compliments in a nice manner?

    Strange….very inhuman likes!

    It’s amazing that a misfit wannabe prophet has aberrated the minds of humans that perhaps their civilization were of sound mind prior to the prophet’s epoch!

    Proverbs 18:1 an unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound [mind] judgment starts quarrels.

  28. jayell says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 2:51 pm

    “Makhzoomi….. said he was interrogated at length, sniffed by police dogs and subjected to an intimate body search in front of passersby. FBI agents arrived and questioned him some more”…..

    Really? Oh dear, I AM so sad to hear that!! But then, millions and millions of airline passengers all round the world are having to suffer severe inconveniences and indignities because of the likes of Makhzoomi – even I can remember a time when you just bought your ticket, turned up with your baggage, and simply got on the plane. Not any more. Now, I wonder of Makhzoomi knows why that is?? By the way, the article says he’s still waiting for an apology. Well, I hope he keeps on waiting – for a very long time. When’s the last time we had an apology from muslims for all the carnage, injury and depraivity that they have caused?

    • Don Foss says

      Apr 19, 2016 at 9:08 pm

      Everybody hates Muslims. Even Muslims hate Muslims. They’re just hateful and hate-worthy all they around.

  29. Don Foss says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 9:02 pm

    This is what common sense looks like. Move away from any Muslim in any kind of vehicle or closed space, and drag away any Muslim exhibiting even slightly suspicious behavior. And just as importantly, show zero guilt for doing so.

    And CAIR… F U ! (We know you monitor this site, you sick, evil terror-supporting cockroaches.)

  30. Champ says

    Apr 19, 2016 at 11:46 pm

    “Muslim demands apology”

    Jeez how many times have we heard *that*?!

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 21, 2016 at 1:50 am

      So true, Champ…

  31. bouboulina says

    Apr 21, 2016 at 7:07 am

    No, this cynical, hateful user of American largesse MUST apologize to the airline & his fellow passengers. Of course the even more cynical, harmful & hateful CAIR will continue to promote him to the public as
    some sort of victim-hero [?!] to push their nefarious agenda–I should know–I’ve been in the same room with CAIR & have seen them in action–they are very dangerous & truly awful America- and Americans-haters.

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