Hey, they are speaking Arabic… don’t fly!

Sounds bizzire but it is true, a woman boarding an American Airlines flight on 31st August from San Diego to Chicago complained that the other passengers were talking in Arabic.

The woman expressed concerns to the flight crew before boarding that six (seven?) men were speaking a foreign language and exhibiting “strange behaviour”.

It turned out that the seven Iraqi men had been training Marines at Camp Pendleton and worked for Defense Training Systems, a unit of Alaska-based International Logistics Services. (news source)

The woman, Leigh Robbins, was later qouted as saying she was simply “protecting my tiny little family,” adding “all I could think of was 9/11.” She offered an apology to seven Iraqi men who were passengers on a plane scheduled to fly from San Diego to Chicago on Tuesday night.

In an interview, Robbins said she was sitting in the back of the plane with her children, awaiting the departure from the gate, when one of the Iraqis walked by to use the restroom.

She heard him “clunking around” inside the bathroom. When he came out, he had a suspicious look on his face, she said.

“He looked so mean, the way he was looking at everyone,” Robbins said. “It was very frightening, like something out of a movie.”

Robbins gathered up her sons, ages 9 and 4, and demanded to be let off the plane. The crew complied with her request, but the resulting delay meant the plane couldn’t take off by Lindbergh Field’s 11:30 p.m. curfew. The airline was forced to postpone the departure until 10:15 a.m. the next day. Meanwhile, airport security officers questioned the seven Iraqis and determined that they posed no threat. (source)

Now people are judging people’s guilt or innocence by their skin or language! Does this mean the terrorists are winning?

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