My latest in PJ Media:
If “hate crimes” targeting Muslims do not exist, they must be invented. They’re simply too politically useful to do without. And so it is that the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is aiding a Muslim woman, Fatima Altakrouri, who claims that Southwest would not allow her to sit in a plane’s exit row because she was wearing a hijab.
Just for some perspective, in the last few weeks alone, in Nigeria, Islamic jihadis murdered a Christian pastor and his 3-year-old son. Elsewhere in the same country, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” murdered 37 Christians, all the while roaming freely in the presence of security personnel, who did nothing to stop them. In Indonesia, eleven Muslims were arrested for plotting jihad massacres at several Christian churches. In South Sudan, thirteen Christians were murdered in a village that, according to the Episcopal Church of South Sudan, “experiences frequent attacks by Arab Islamic militias.” In Pakistan, a Muslim mob murdered a Christian for trying to defend his sister whom Muslims had stripped naked in the street. In Uganda, Muslims beheaded and removed the tongue of a pastor who had debated Muslims and converted some of them to Christianity.
Now, I don’t mean to minimize the gravity of being denied a seat in the exit row, but compared to incidents of that kind, which take place more or less regularly, it doesn’t seem to be that big a deal. If this is an example of what CAIR can come up with in terms of “Islamophobia,” it’s pretty thin gruel. Yet “Islamophobia” in the U.S. and Europe gets far more international media attention than the global Muslim persecution of Christians. Now, why is that?
As for Fatima Altakrouri, according to USA Today, she has “filed a complaint with the Department of Transportation, saying she was not allowed to sit in an emergency exit row on a Southwest Airlines flight because she was wearing a hijab, but her sister was allowed to sit there without one.”
Altakrouri claims that after denying her request, a flight attendant mocked her as a terrorist: “As I was walking, I overheard her saying to the passengers in the seats that were around that area, laughing, saying that ‘If we sat her there, she’d bring down the plane in an emergency. You can imagine the shock I was in at that time.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
PRCS says
Of course.
Note: before the investigation has been completed, CAIR “rep” Faizan Syed has declared –before the investigation has been completed–“this is textbook religious discrimination and profiling”.
william says
On every plane I have flown you get your seat number when you check in. You can change seats but only with a good reason and subject to availability. The door seats are popular because one can stretch one’s legs. The only pace I have heard of being different is Nigeria where on internal flights it is a free for all scramble
PRCS says
Their whole story is riddled with inconsistent assertions. I hope CAIR “reps” end up with egg on their collective face.
Some feeder routes (Beechcraft B-99’s in Montana, for example) board and are seated for weight and balance purposes by the pilot/fo. Pity those of small stature in Nigeria!
gravenimage says
I’ve seen passengers asked to move from the exit aisle a couple of times–once, a man with his arm in a cast, and once, embassasingly, although the steward was very polite–a very overweight person. In both cases it was because the passenger was not the best person to aid others in the event of an emergency.
Not speaking English *might* also be considered an issue.
Poor says
“As I was walking, I overheard her saying to the passengers in the seats that were around that area,…”
Dunno, not reliable
Is this a convert btw?
Poor says
Gotta admit the lenghts they take the application of the victim card
Donovan Nuera says
Converts (or as they arrogantly call them, “Reverts”) are typically losers and become zealots of a loser religion. It’s not the religion of winners!
But hey, they can’t cry “poor wittle me” when we make them work on Christmas! Ha ha!
william says
Converts to any religion are always the most zealous as they have to prove how dedicated they are. Not to mention superior to the non converts
PRCS says
So many questions with their claim.
Giacomo Latta says
Get in touch with her parents and ask them to show her some attention. Maybe it’s not too late to correct past mistakes. Then we can all live our lives without knowing who the hell she is.
Eleanor says
I would hazard a guess that she is a convert. Women converts to Islam, especially white women of a certain one number IQ, absolutely love the attention wearing this garb brings them. And if they don’t get it, don’t put it past them to make it up, or embellish any slight they imagine is against them.
Infidel says
Please tell me that SWA hasn’t apologized. In this era of woke airlines, it would be nice to have an existing airline that ain’t
BlackSabbath says
Southwest should offer a Donkey service to moslems. That way, they can sit comfortably on exit row, and even if they brought down the donkey, it is not going to be a big factor in the grand scheme of things.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
BlackSabbath writes, “Southwest should offer a Donkey service to [M]oslems. That way, they can sit comfortably on exit row, and even if they brought down the donkey, it is not going to be a big factor in the grand scheme of things.”
Sorry, Black, but I don’t get the joke. Please explain it. What is a “Donkey” in this context (and why is it capitalized)? What does it mean to “bring down” a donkey?
BlackSabbath says
What joke?
gravenimage says
If No Islamophobic ‘Hate Crimes’ Exist, They Must Be Invented. The Next Target Is Southwest
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Yep. More fake victim-mongering from Muslims.
Donovan Nuera says
Why was her sister not wearing the Koranic mandatory garb? I thought they all had to wear that crap? Or is her sister a kafir who is embarrassed by her looney revert sister?
Infidel says
I often wonder the same thing about Ilhan and Rashida – which one of them is being unislamic?
Bikinis not Burkas says
The Quran says tell the believing women to cover themselves with the scalf of their husband.
It’s not mandatory otherwise it would say they must!
The hijab is a signal to others that this woman is a Muslim don’t touch her or we will kill you!
Clifford Fodor says
“You can imagine the shock I was in at that time.”
Oh, that’s terrible! Let me weep for you. Boo-hoo. Boo-hoo-hoo-hoo.
scherado says
He’s using too much logic: we Americans can never finish the job anymore. WWII is the first thing to come to mind of an example of finishing the job.
But the entire topic of the “events leading up to 9-11” leads inevitably to the question: Who, exactly, dropped the ball in 1993 when so-called “Ramzi Yousef”‘s huge bomb NEARLY brought down (at least) one of the Twin Towers?
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Step right up! Who wants to play the Sharia Lottery??! Cash prizes and gifts guaranteed for all. Extortion is our name accusing is our game.
OLD GUY says
You only have to remember that according to Islam muslim and islamic persons and above everyone else in the world. They can be offended by you breathing the air that belongs to them.
Its a good thing this islamic women wasn’t talking back to a muslim male attendant he would have thrown her worthless ass out the door. That two is allowed by Islam, as men are worth twice as much as a women and usually have the right to kill a women if offended by her.
She’ll probably get a few million dollars out of this scam. Along with (CIAR) taking their cut. What a racket!
Who can I sue for being offended by the Islamic followers who behead, murder and rape us poor non-believers of Muhammad? Can I sue Sadi Arabia for not even allowing me to tour that country while carrying my Christian bible? It seems like Muslims and islamic followers discriminate against everyone else but they are the only ones being protected. Not RIGHT.