Hamas-linked CAIR has a never-ending supply of chutzpah, but to file this lawsuit, they needed to order extra barrels of it: an Arabic-speaking passenger who heard Makhzoomi’s remarks says that his comments were threatening. But Hamas-linked CAIR and Makhzoomi may be hoping that Southwest Airlines will be so intimidated by the suit itself, and the prospect of getting a reputation for “Islamophobia,” that it will settle and give them a big payday. Victimhood: in our society today, it’s big business, and CAIR is a victimhood tycoon.
“Muslim says he was kicked off flight after he was heard speaking in Arabic, CAIR lawsuit claims,” The Blaze, February 14, 2018:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of a Muslim-American man who said he was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for speaking in Arabic on his cellphone.
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was a public policy student at the University of California, Berkeley, at the time of the April 2016 incident. While awaiting takeoff at Los Angeles International Airport, Makhzoomi called his uncle to tell him about meeting and having dinner with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
What does the lawsuit say occurred?
But another passenger heard Makhzoomi speaking in Arabic and reported him to Southwest, a CAIR news release said. Makhzoomi was then removed from the plane, questioned by law enforcement and barred from returning to the flight. The suit said nothing happened to non-Arabic-speaking passengers using their cellphones.
The lawsuit said when Shoaib Ahmed — a Southwest agent named as a defendant in the suit — came to remove Makhzoomi from the plane, Ahmed tried to speak to Makhzoomi in Arabic. But Makhzoomi — who also is a refugee from Iraq — asked Ahmed to please speak in English, the suit added.
“You seem that you were having a serious conversation on the phone,” Ahmed told Makhzoomi, according to the suit. “Who were you talking to?”
After Makhzoomi told him, Ahmed replied, “Why are you talking in Arabic? You know the environment is very dangerous,” the suit claimed, adding that Ahmed told Makhzoomi he was being removed from the flight for speaking in Arabic.
Makhzoomi was then forced to stand in a corner in the terminal for 45 minutes “before being aggressively patted down and invasively searched in front of a crowd of onlookers and half a dozen police officers, including a K-9 unit,” the suit said. Makhzoomi “felt humiliated, in shock, confused, and began to silently cry,” the suit said.
What did the FBI allegedly do?Enter officials from the FBI, the suit said, who took Makhzoomi to a private room, interrogated him and searched all of his belongings.
“Next time you are flying, don’t use your phone, just sit there,” an FBI agent told Makhzoomi, the suit noted, “and I advise you to apologize to Southwest.”
While Makhzoomi was finally cleared and released after several hours and Southwest refunded his ticket, the suit said the airline refused to book him on another flight and inconvenienced him, as Makhzoomi had to book a Delta flight to get home.
More from the lawsuit:
As direct and proximate result of Southwest’s intentional infliction of emotional distress, Plaintiff has suffered from long lasting shock; trauma; stigmatization; severe mental and emotional distress; embarrassment; public humiliation; damage to his personal and professional reputation; anxiety; insecurity; sleeplessness; fear and apprehension associated with airports and flying; and immense pressure to look and act a certain way so to camouflage his identity, including feeling the need to shave his beard prior to flying and to not travel with his Arabic studies books.
What does the plaintiff want?
Makhzoomi wants to be awarded compensatory and punitive damages, as well as legal fees, the lawsuit said….
Benedict says
Unfortunately Islam with its reputation and record is an inconvenience for the whole world and naturally and especially for Muslims and arab speaking people.
J D S says
Of course if one is an American one should speak English…Especially in an environment where there have been problems like a crowded airplane..Muslims have used airplanes as bombs.
From my understanding Southwest Airlines is one of the best of the best and don’t deserve a lawsuit by a suspected Hamas Linked organization like CAIR and are perfectly within their rights to expelled anyone who are susceptible.
Sarah says
I could care less if he’s gotten his knickers in a knot over this treatment. Frankly, if I were sitting on a plane waiting to take off and I overheard some random man or woman babbling away into a phone, speaking Arabic, I’d get nervous. Hell, I get nervous whenever I spot a Muslim on any plane I’m on.
Why wouldn’t I get nervous about it? I also get nervous when I’m in a crowded public place and see Muslims roaming about. I’d be a damn idiot to NOT get nervous. It’s called the survival instinct. After all, the cold hard truth is whenever a terror attack occurs anywhere in the world, there is one thing you can always take to the bank – it was committed by a god-rotting Muslim. Wherever there is terror – there’s a filthy Muslim causing it. That is the reality, no matter what CAIR want to spin.
I could care less if any Muslim gets all offended by that, if they actually cared one iota about the rest of the human race, they’d turn their focus to that rubbish dump of a religion of theirs and do something about it. But no, they don’t want criticism of their religion.
You see, any practicing Muslim – especially foreign-born ones accept the fact that terrorism and Islam are hand in hand. They accept that there is a risk that they may get caught up in a suicide bombing, or shooting, or surface to air missile explosion etc etc – because they all accept the concept of Jihad as a part of their religion. They’d rather accept that there is a risk of danger, then criticize their own religion. And they expect the rest of the human race to fall in line with that idiotic approach, too.
It’s so ironically simple – the method on how to fix Islamic terrorism in the West and prevent it from ever happening again. Expel every single Muslim from the land. Expel every single person who was born in a nation known to be dominated by Islam. And ban every single last one from ever returning to our shores, as well as their descendents.
You don’t need to change the laws, or start the slippery slope of banning religions and belief systems and all that – all you need to do, is kick out every single last idiot who has any sort of affiliation with that cancer of a belief system and refuse to ever let anyone with any remote attachment to it, within your borders, permanently.
32,544 terror attacks and counting, so far. The common denominator in every.single.last.one? Muslims committed those attacks. Get rid of the Muslims, no more attacks. How the hell is that rocket science?
J D S says
Yes….terrorism is not against their law…sharia…and of course sharia law overrides any other law…
WAKE UP AMERICA ..WAKE UP WESTERN NATIONS are you going to allow their law to prevail over your established laws.??? Looks like you are…Start making laws to control the outlandish aspects of islam.
livingengine says
Another Muslim comedy routine in the tradition of the Flying Imams and Azhar Usman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=httoVsQYiAo
Marina says
Boo- hoo!! Muslims are eternal victims.
Gene Russell says
What do Muslims hope to achieve by individual acts of terrorism ?
thesailor says
The same thing that Army Ants hope to achieve by individual acts of killing – the furtherance of the spread of the colony.
MFritz says
It’s not loads of chutzpah that drives CAIR, it’s loads of money and political support from idiots and other terrorist supporters.
CAIR -> Complicity In Aiding Radicals
DejaVu Again says
Don’t forget that Atif Fareed, a former CAIR Leader, and now President of the American Muslim Community Centers in Longwood, FL is a current Southwest Airlines Captain.
So we have CAIR suing an airline who employs a former CAIR leader as a left seat pilot.
If I was SW airlines I would take a close look at Atif Fareed and his relationship with CAIR and the radical Jihadi lecturers who have passed through the Mosque he controls in Longwood, FL.
Who knows when and if Atif Fareed decides to go Jihadi to teach the Kafir a lesson about disrespecting the followers of Islam. And so it goes…..
SK says
I remember something about that story. The catalyst for him being reported is that someone misinterpreted him.
He was saying the Islamic phrase for “God willing” which would be very normal between Muslims talking about something, and someone on the flight misinterpreted him as saying “martyrs”, we know that because when they interviewed him, they asked about martyrs, and he says he told them he did not say the word. In Arabic, the word for “martyrs” is “shahada”, so it is possible that the person who reported him misheard the double-l sound as a d sound.
(Southwest claimed at the time that person was Arab)
Most of that is from a Guardian article that I read at the time. This story is far more complicated than Southwest Airlines not liking Arabs or not liking Muslims.
penelope says
Another plant for CAIR, these things don’t just happen. Had they not attacked us on 9/11, real Americans would not have serious concerns when around ‘arab’ people. They can obey the rules just like the rest of us, no matter our color. So wake up CAIR and followers. You are being watched and that will never change.
Politicianophobia says
What, CAIR does not supply magic carpets.
Carolyne says
I was in Istanbul when Turkey invaded and took over part of Cyprus. We were allowed to use telephones, but were required to speak English (?) There were several in our group from Europe who did not speak English so they were unable to call their families. I think it is a good rule that when on a US airplane you either keep your mouth shut or you speak English. I have no idea why the Turks were requiring English, but likely they had only English speaking translators available to monitor phone calls. We all know that many of these incidents with Muslims on airplanes are merely intentionally to provoke other passengers and the crew. They see dollar signs with each “Allah Akbar,”