Mehdi Hasan is a key “Islamophobia” propagandist; he has many times propagated the idea that Muslims are subjected to routine discrimination and harassment in the U.S. What a coincidence that his wife would become a victim of “Islamophobia”!
This kind of coincidence has happened before. In 2016, Rashid Dar of the Qatar-funded Brookings Institution claimed that he was punched in the throat by a random man on a Washington, DC street because he was wearing Muslim garb. And last February, “Islamophobia” professor Khaled Beydoun claimed to have been the victim of an “Islamophobic” attack by a Delta captain.
How amazing that of all the many, many people wearing Muslim garb on the street in Washington, the one that this lout decided to punch was an “Islamophobia” propagandist. And what a coincidence that of all the multitudes of Muslims who fly on airplanes every day, many while wearing Muslim garb, that the one that Delta captain decided to manhandle was a professor of “Islamophobia,” and that the hijabi this Southwest flight attended decided to hassle was Mehdi Hasan’s wife.
There is no doubt that flying on Southwest can be deeply unpleasant. The lack of reserved seating makes for all the predictable problems: people cutting ahead of others in line, people berating others for cutting ahead of them in line, and the like. It is not at all hard to believe that Mehdi Hasan’s wife had a bad experience. The idea that it was because she was “brown and wearing a headscarf,” however, is just more victimhood propaganda, and is frankly preposterous. No flight attendant would dare behave in such a way today, or keep her job for a moment if she did so.
Nonetheless, people will believe Mehdi Hasan. And there will be a new round of handwringing about “Islamophobia” in the establishment media, and new calls for the silencing of all voices critical of jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women and others.
“Flightmare: Southwest Airlines cabin crew ‘threatens to kick Muslim mum off flight after she asks to sit with family,’” by Qin Xie, The Sun, December 5, 2019:
A MUM was left in tears when she was told that she’ll be “escorted off the plane” – all allegedly because she wanted to sit with her family.
The nightmare incident took place on a Southwest Airlines flight between Houston and Washington DC, and was shared online by her husband.
Mehdi Hasan, a British journalist who’s based in the US, explained that he and his family were flying home after Thanksgiving on Sunday night and had just boarded the flight.
Southwest Airlines, a low-cost airline, operates an open-seating policy.
It means there are no allocated seats, and passengers can sit in any available seat on a first come, first served basis.
Mehdi explained how his wife had asked another passenger “politely” to switch seats so the family could sit together before the exchange took place.
He wrote in a viral Twitter thread: “Hey @SouthwestAir: not a good look for your flight attendant on SW5539 to DC last night to loudly tell a brown woman in a headscarf she’ll be “escorted off the plane” for making people feel “uncomfortable” – because she wanted to sit with her husband & kids!
“The flight attendant called ground staff onto the plane, complained about the Muslim woman – my wife! – to them, & escalated rather than de-escalated the situation – simply because my wife politely asked a guy if he’d give up his seat for our family (which he was fine with!).”
Mehdi added that even the cabin crew’s colleague had sided with the family.
He said: “Even her own @SouthwestAir colleague from the ground staff who came onboard to check things wondered why the flight attendant wouldn’t shut up & let things go so we could take off.”
The family also received support from other passengers, including one who told them the cabin crew had treated Mrs Hasan “like a venomous snake” according to Mehdi.
The Brit continued in his Twitter thread: “Thanks @SouthwestAir for ruining the end of our Thanksgiving trip and leaving my wife in tears – because she wanted us all to sit together as a family while your flight attendant wanted to single her out and humiliate her. Thanks a lot.
“FYI: @SouthwestAir flight staff seem to have form when it comes to mistreating brown/Muslim passengers. Hadn’t flown with them for years and, at this point, don’t plan to do so again anytime in the near future. Not worth it.”
Mehdi’s tweets received thousands of retweets, with many offering messages of support….
A spokesperson for the airline told Sun Online Travel: “Once we learned about the Customer’s social media message, we began to research the flight and gather information internally.
“We also reached out to the Customer directly to discuss his Family’s experience prior to departure.
“From our initial discussions, we understand that some Passengers on Flight 5539 were involved in a disagreement over seat selection near the end of boarding. (Southwest does not assign seats; Customers select their seats as they board the aircraft.)
“The Flight Crew requested a Customer Service Supervisor come onboard to help address the situation and the conversation was resolved before the plane left the gate.
“The Family was (sic) able to sit together and the flight arrived safely in Washington, D.C. on Sunday night. We remain in communication with the Customer who sent the tweet and are working to address his concerns directly.”…
Philis O'Shaughnessy says
Muslim Taqiyya. The male sex cult says his wife was targeted. Females in islam are all targets from muslims unless they wear the veil/scarf. Take off the scarf female muslim and we will see WHO actually will target YOU> your female and male muslim neighbors will target You and destroy YOU.
william carr says
Dear Robert a
I respectfully ask you not refer to this type of person as a “Brit” He is based in USA which tells us how loyal to UK he is. He is not a “brit” in any way accirding to me. He may have been born there which to me means zero!
gravenimage says
William, it was The Sun who referred to Mehdi Hasan as “British”, *not* Robert Spencer.
Infidel says
Hey, Mehdi, if you want to get contiguous seats for your family, report early before all the good seats are taken. Otherwise whoever arrived before you has the right to the seat that s/he got, and is not obligated to give that to your tilth, no matter how politely you ask. Also, tell the Mrs to just sit quietly alone for that flight: once you’re all back home, you can spend as much time as you like in the sack with her
Also, remember, if you don’t like your flying experience, it’s the will of allah. Your other option: stay in the Ummah Kaliphate and stop flying to the US: it’s not your country!
PRCS says
So, trying to follow the bouncing ball here.
Mehdi explained how his wife had asked another passenger “politely” to switch seats so the family could sit together before the exchange took place.
Such requests between passengers happen all the time.
But, unless I missed it, the article doesn’t state WHY the flight attendant needed to become involved.
b.a. freeman says
*excellent* point, PRCS. i’m guessing that the other passenger was berated by hasan until he grudgingly agreed to switch seats, and that the flight attendant came over after the fight was over because of the noise. the attendant should not suffer any sanctions, because this a**hole routinely pulls this crap, which could easily be demonstrated by the airline by a quick search of its and its competitors records, and quite possibly by a googal search. bending over for this crap has to stop.
+1
PRCS says
Yup–something happened.
And, yes, as he is an arrogant a**hole–wouldn’t be surprised if he–or his brown-skinned hijabi wife–did instigate that.
Leslie Fish says
And note that the woman *did* wind up sitting with her “family”. There is no mention of whether or not the other passenger was already sitting with his/her family, or how Mehdi’s wife behaved when her “polite” request was refused.
Trick_or_Treat says
The family seating arrangements of the mere kaffir doesn’t count, it’s the muslims requitements that are paramount.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
b.a. freeman says
” …[h]adn’t flown with them for years and, at this point, don’t plan to do so again anytime in the near future.”
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good. if i need a flight now, i’ll be sure to fly southwest, because it’ll have fewer pious muslims on board. good riddance, hasan the pious islamic snake!
Krishna says
That’s regular problem for unreserved travelling in all forms of transport but mehdi Hasan seems to ignorant of rules and willing to create a victimhood scene for such pitty problems
PRCS says
Or–he uses that to his advantage.
gravenimage says
+1
yes says
I will feel safer knowing muslims-any muslims- do not fly Southwest
Love Southwest
Infidel says
Same here. I’ve never had issues flying Southwest, and the lack of reserved seating was no big deal. It’s only a big deal if one is likely to fly for more than 3 hours, usually on international flights, but other than that, there’s no reason why the family has to sit together, especially if they didn’t arrive at the gate early enough to pick a block of available seats
Brian Hoff says
The other passenger was willing to give up his seat the first time when ask. There some Southwest worker who are anti Muslim bigot.
Rooster says
Yeah! Give them more of a pity party!!
Carol the 1st says
You’ve grabbed the word “first” out of thin air. The non-Hasan clue is probably in the phrase “a disagreement over seat selection”.
gravenimage says
Note that “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIlslam”–is saying that if anyone does not want to give up their seat to a demanding Muslim supremacist and is backed up by Southwest personnel then they are an “anti Muslim bigot”.
Note that he doesn’t think that any Muslim should have to give up a seat for an Infidel.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
An Arabic/Muslim proverb that describes the tactic:
“Tamaskan tatamakan” (“Show a victim’s face [and] take over” or “Show a victim’s face [and] you will win”).
Anonymous says
The Sun: “A MUM was left in tears”
In France in the infos muslim females wearing a veil who happen to have children are always presented as “mums” in an incredibly infantile way in order to show them as “chilled untouchable saints” in a way the Muslim Brotherhood only dreamt of but that the media are eager to provide. Their picture has a sobering effect since these “mums” forcibly make themselves ugly in order not to be seductive by using layers of depressing head veils and other shapeless layers of “modest” clothes. Their sight is an open attack on esthetics. The victory of the violent misogynistic muslim males appropriation of the streets who attack verbally or more the feminine western women. The dream come true of the progressive feminists glorification of anti-esthetics and denial of migrant horrible oppression of women to the point they can only go out if hugely ugly. They are supposedly “innocuous” as “mums”. So the infos are littered with stories about muslim “mums”, huge victims in the jihad of victimhood competition that saturate the French media as they are shown protesting for burkinis at the swimming pool, school outings as veiled accompaniers, white walks to grieve and accuse the police to support their criminal muslim “boys” ‘ injuries or death as they were resisting arrest while caught doing dangerous illegal things and already having a criminal record pretty furnished, to make France a shariah hell. These muslim mothers are the “mums” of all the muslim first, second and third generation of migrant criminals that plague the cities of France and make the innumerable “no-go zones” and the majority of the inmates in the French prisons. Someone provided the word “histrionic” as the psychology term for the frequent muslim female displayers of intense victimhood. This “mum” on the plane should have ululated her grief in the plane….
carpediadem says
Women with kids are always referred to as mums, regardless of religion. It’s a standard tabloid convention.
Ren says
The islamic headscarf is harassment.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“French Rapper Brags About ‘Great Replacement’ In New Song”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/12/08/french-rapper-brags-about-great-replacement-in-new-song/
Len says
Make the United States a Muslim Free Zone. See, no more arguments.
Battle says
“There is no god but Mohammad, and Allah is his messenger.” -Anjuli Pandavar
Scott Carlson says
Penalize all hate crime hoaxes since most who commit them are Muslim and blacks who hate America. Let’s see how Muslims react with yet again with a victim card but they will be exposed for being opposed to this law. Make sure this law is endorced to the max and keep pushing it until it passes. Suggest it to the president and all other people in power that stand against the hate hoax crimes committed against innocent Americans.
Trick_or_Treat says
Reckon such legislation should be held off a little while until just after the next Presidential election in November, after which (whether Donald is there or not) the Republicans will hold a massive controlling majority in both the Congress and Senate.
Nothing much in the way of government business happening there at the moment, except an ongoing demented and psychopathic campaign of clutching at any next straw whatsoever to impeach or even besmirch the sitting President. Soon it will be some whistleblower (who cannot be named for conspiratorial reasons) that swears Donald stole candy from a baby in a pram.
PRCS says
This “mum” on the plane should have ululated her grief in the plane….
THAT would’ve been interesting!
somehistory says
This is a part…a large part…of the warfare moslims wage every second or every minute of every hour of every day, all over the nations that have still a measure of freedom.
Freedom means someone can dislike another or disagree with another or not wish to give up a seat to another…for any reason whatsoever. If on a plane with unassigned seating, and you get the seat you want and a moslim “politely”….Remember, moslims use a different dictionary and their words all have different meanings , so “politely” could mean anything…but he is using it because people who don’t speak islam, understand what “politely’ means when used in this context…you have the “freedom” to refuse to give up the seat.
His wife could have said it “demandingly” and he would still have claimed otherwise. moslims expect to be treated as if they are special…because they believe they are…and demand their way or they raise a foul odor.
Something happened between the passenger and the moslims and the attendant became involved in order to settle the dispute. The fact that he admits that his wife was told she would be escorted off the plane….says a whole heck of a lot. They were making a foul odor and to resolve it, the moslim was about to be ejected. If the other passenger was “fine” with giving up his seat, it must have been so the flight could proceed and not really because he was okay with having to trade.
If trading meant he didn’t have to sit next to the moslim family….perhaps he was “fine” with moving.
But this moslim creep is leaving out a whole lot regarding this flight. Otherwise, his wife would not have been threatened with ejection. And he claims that the ground CSR was taking his wife’s side….** by asking why the attendant got involved** Asking why doesn’t mean “taking his wife’s side,” it means the CSR wanted all of the information about what happened and the attendant could provide what she did/didn’t do, saw, heard, etc.
Good riddance to troublemakers…esp on airline flights. Confined space far off the ground…no way to escape until the plane lands. Could be hours.
Just wondering…why were these moslims celebrating Thanksgiving? They are “Brits” and Thanksgiving is an American tradition. They are moslims and Thanksgiving is not a moslim “tradition.” Began by Pilgrims…many of whom were Christian…and Native Americans. And instituted by a president of a government that moslims wish to destroy “from within.”
ados says
Will not trust anything that comes from Mehdi Hasan after he Called non believers Animals. Surprised he is still employed by the news network.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn4ZOxTGB3Y
Robert Baylis says
He is simply the worst of the worst. His ugly spoiled-brat face makes me cringe every time I see it.
Trick_or_Treat says
This is typically one of those rabid dogs who really needs to be kept on a watch list. Truly. There is a s**tload seething extremism going there in that small mind.
Ha, and he has the hide to talk about paedophiles!!! Yeah, right.
FYI says
“bending any rule to fulfil any desire”
Well that’s a big laugh…
Now isn’t that EXACTLY what his “prophet” muhammed did?
Any time muhammed felt the need to do something immoral he got a “special” convenient revelation from his Arab god allah{=muhammed’s sock puppet}which gave him that permission.
islamic “morality”:murder,stealing,lying,sexual slavery of women,mutah{prostitution permitted in islam},polygamy,CHILD BRIDES,raping enslaved women
islam:what “morality”?
FYI says
muhammed:Say allah?Can I STEAL from the khybar Jews?
“allah”: sure mo,knock yourself out
muhammed:Hey allah?Is it OK if I commit ADULTERY with Mary the Copt?
“allah”: Certainly mo:but don’t get caught..!
muhammed:would it be OK if I deflower a 9 year old girl?
“allah” Great idea!At 9 years old she’s a fully grown woman with child bearing capability isn’t she?
muahmmed:Peace be upon me!Say allah?Isn’t it AMAZING we always agree on everything…I just LOVE to bend rules to fulfil any desire of mine and it is wonderful you support me and never contradict me..
gravenimage says
The “news network” his is employed by is Al Jazeera, so this should not surprise.
James Lincoln says
I flew a few times before the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978…
I actually enjoyed the “good old days” of paying high, regulated prices for MUCH better service / overall experience.
Passengers were polite – and well dressed.
“Stewardesses” were young, pretty, friendly – and professional.
You got a full meal in coach, and you could “light-up”him after dessert.
And security while flying within CONUS was VERY relaxed.
If I could only go back to the summer of 1970…
“Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know know then” – about Islam.
DR says
Thank you USA for employing this loser. English people will sleep better knowing that he is out of the country
Infidel says
Is he an employee of an UK media outlet posted in the US, or did a US media outlet employ him? Which is it?
gravenimage says
He works for Al Jazeera, which is out of Qatar.
Infidel says
Al Jazeera in the US closed some years ago, so what’s he still doing here? Incidentally, that’s one thing that the otherwise putrid Saudis happen to be right about!
gravenimage says
Infidel, Al Jazeera America closed down in 2016. But Al Jazeera English is still around. It is based in London, but also has bureaus in several parts of the Americas, including in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco in the US.
gravenimage says
Mehdi Hasan claims flight attendant harassed his wife because she was a “brown woman with a headscarf”
………………
What crap. This Muslimah probably threatened the passenger for being too slow to do her bidding.
Save Europe says
And here for EVERYONE to see is Mehdi Hassan’s opinion of NON Muslims !!!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6DPczuT9hb4
Eur says
hate crime. Does CAIR say nothing about it? Ahhh it’s true, the life and rights of the Kafir don’t give a shit.
Ade Fegan says
Fake hate crime = JIHAD
Eur says
What nonsense, nobody suffers harassment for having a brown skin color. If that happened, the company would face a very serious crime. We do not live in Alabama in the early or mid 20th century. He is using skin color for people of color to empathize with his stupid theocratic thinking. Garbage and handling.
Anonymous says
There seemed to be one seat missing for the whole family to be together. Why would it be the wife’s seat and not the husband’s. He could have gone sitting elsewhere without it being the end of the world.
Proud Infidel says
If the children were young, Southwest would have boarded the whole family after the disabled. I fly Southwest all the time and they always board families with young children before the other passengers. You are correct, why didn’t the husband give up his seat? How many was in the party to begin with?
Giacomo Latta says
Should you get the opportunity, tell Qin Xie, Southwest Airlines and anyone else thoroughly ignorant about Islam that Islam trumps everything and muslims trump you. So make sure you follow their ”politely-proposed” suggestions.
Scott Carlson says
As I predicted there would be hate crime hoaxes. Watch the mainstream media now follow up on any of these cases.
When are we going to start jailing these people for hate crime hoaxes. These hate crime hoaxes are giving our enemy within power over Americans.
Let’s test these Muslims and make it a punishable crime with a prison sentence. Let’s let the Muslims reveal themselves showing they’re against it. As usual they will play the victimhood card.
Scott Carlson says
*watch the mainstream media not follow up on these hate hoax crimes.
OREN WYSOCKI says
Wouldn’t it be great if someone in the media would ask these guys that considering that muslims are the biggest discriminators and oppressors of non muslims on the planet, isn’t it basically ridiculous to pretend that you are the one facing persecution? Literally every single muslim country has thousands of hate crimes towards non muslims. Assuming they even have any left, they hang homosexuals, they rape Christians and Jews at will, they kidnap attractive non muslim women, and gang rape them until they convert. They beat non muslim men with no recourse under the law. They permit themselves to accuse non muslims of immorality, and evil but they react violently when muslims are accused of immorality and evil. All of this too is supported by the police in muslim majority countries, who are little more than maintainers of order presiding over human rights violations. Muslims routinely rob non muslims, they seize their property, and there is little chance courts in muslim nations will rule in favor of A non muslim over A muslim. They throw rocks at women who are accused of having affairs. Much more.
The whole time the white left supports covering it all up, because they will not get involved in fighting against human rights violators. They would rather frame right wingers and religious white gentiles and Jews, so that they can defend their popularity as much as they can and enable themselves to navigate A society that will collapse if muslims or blacks were ever stood up to. Almost everything listed above can be attributed to blacks as well. They will even allow innocent right wingers and religious people to go to jail, because it supposedly serves them right for being racist, even if its not true. Jews and white gentiles are far less abusive and oppressive of muslims and blacks, compared to muslim and black treatment of Christians and Jews. Just like the Russia accusation, the truth does not matter, the girls and the left are just trying to navigate the world, better to lie to survive A bit longer.
Sure, the communists are contenders for most murderous and oppressive fascists on the planet but compared to the right wingers and religious in the west they are both evil.
It is like we are being attacked with one of the lefts wacky inversion strategies. Except I can’t tell if jihad watch is complicit in treason, or inversion is the extent of free speech remaining in America.
It is unfortunate that nobody in university can speak the truth, and the only information available there is, is pure white blame, all the time. But those girls and young guys deserve to be insulted by the rest of us, for having no idea what history really is because they went to A propaganda center and never got A real education. They will have to defeat leftism among young americans in order to make it possible to get A real education in american universities. You white gentiles, especially the girls, have been leftist for at least 50 years since the 1960’s. Perhaps access to mass communication through technology has enabled them to have more thoughts at A younger age, but for most americans, that age is when you have your first thoughts, which for white gentiles are leftist, and filled with potential and excessive optimism. They project their morals on others, and refuse to recognize that other peoples exist, whose thoughts are very different than their own. Years and Years of failure, and mismeasurement of people will eventually lead to exhaustion and acceptance of more reality.
The same but far worse goes for the grown lefties who like fake news over real news, or who are to dumb to tell the difference between accusation and evidence. They may be to angry to accept the truth, but we can shame them G-d willing, we can win. I pray that we are allowed to. In G-d I trust.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Oh, Mehdi, Mehdi. Think of all the fuss and bother you would’ve saved everyone had you just followed Muhammad’s example and taken a buraq. You do follow his example, don’t you? You don’t? Oh, dear.
Well, never mind. Most of us don’t. Clearly, you draw the line with the headscarf thing — tell the women of the believers to pull over them their outer garments, and all that — you couldn’t be expected to do anything about that. Understandable. But did she *have* to be brown on a day she was going to fly? *With* a headscarf? Come on, Mehdi. You must admit that was dumb. On that day of all days. Why not white or pink or red or yellow or something. Next time, if brown it has to be, then yea, ride a buraq! You know it makes sense.
Michael M Geoffroy (@MichaelMGeoffr3) says
I’d like to see all airlines operated like EL’ Al !! I would love to be there when Mehdi starts some shit on that airline !!!!! LOL !
AP says
Lairs will lie. Same ole drum beat. Day after day. Poor us, so one of ours killed six of yours. Must be the going trend. Makes me think of the ladies in Syria , who, once free of Isis, spit on the headscarf for the filth it is.