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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 04:01 PM Aug 2016

Muslim man and his two sisters booted off plane because text on phone was in Arabic

In the UK, no less!

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/muslim-man-and-his-two-sisters-booted-off-plane-because-text-on-phone-was-in-arabic/

Three British Muslim siblings were left traumatised after being escorted off a plane in London and interrogated on the tarmac as armed police kept watch, after fellow passengers accused them of being members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group....

Sakina told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that as the plane was about to take off, a crew member ordered the siblings off the aircraft and escorted them down the staircase to the tarmac, where they were met by armed police and an MI5 agent who questioned them for one hour.

Earlier, two passengers - also travelling to Naples - had told authorities that the siblings had been looking at a mobile phone screen that showed either Arabic text or the words "praise be to Allah", Sakina said....

"We had nothing at all (on our phones). We don't even speak Arabic, we're (of) Indian (origin)."


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Muslim man and his two sisters booted off plane because text on phone was in Arabic (Original Post) KamaAina Aug 2016 OP
They should fine or penalize people who report this shit without anything backing them up beyond uppityperson Aug 2016 #1
the terroriss have won Angry Dragon Aug 2016 #2
They dont even speak Arabic . I sm so sick of these false reporters like the people who say they Person 2713 Aug 2016 #3

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
1. They should fine or penalize people who report this shit without anything backing them up beyond
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 04:16 PM
Aug 2016

fearful bigotry.

Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
3. They dont even speak Arabic . I sm so sick of these false reporters like the people who say they
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 04:20 PM
Aug 2016

called to report some random black person in the US, just because they think he may have a gun which they know is not true

If they had nothing on the phone the people doing this are sick and it wasn't even a misunderstanding just made up hate bullshit

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