{"id":114,"date":"2016-07-21T14:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/21\/american-airlines-backs-stewardess-who-announced\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:06","slug":"american-airlines-backs-stewardess-who-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/07\/21\/american-airlines-backs-stewardess-who-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines backs stewardess who announced she was “watching” Muslim passenger in Seat 25-A, then kicked him off flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Muslim man was booted from a flight after an attendant publicly announced his name and seat number and warned him she was \u201cwatching\u201d him<\/a>. Welcome to American (real ones) Airlines.<\/p>\n

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Mohamed Ahmed Radwan had boarded a plane in Charlotte, North Carolina and the flight attendant went to the tannoy and said: \u201cMohamed Ahmed, Seat 25-A: I will be watching you.\u201d The employee made no other announcements about any other passenger. Mr Radwan asked the employee why she had made the announcements. She reportedly responded that he was being \u201ctoo sensitive\u201d [and] was told he must leave the plane as he had made the first air stewardess \u201cuncomfortable\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The company\u2019s response: \u201cWe thoroughly reviewed these allegations and concluded that no discrimination occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same way bad police use \u201cfelt threatened\u201d as an excuse for beatings and killings, bad airlines have settled on \u201cfelt uncomfortable\u201d as their lawyer-approved all-bases-covered method of booting Muslims from flights.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/07\/21\/american-airlines-backs-stewar.html<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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