Jewish man removed from airplane for praying

[Youngfox]

Jewish man removed from airplane for praying

"He wasn't exactly praying out loud but he was lurching back and forth," Faguy added.

The action didn't seem to bother anyone, Faguy said, but a flight attendant approached the man and told him his praying was making other passengers nervous.

"The attendant actually recognized out loud that he wasn't a Muslim and that she was sorry for the situation but they had to ask him to leave," Faguy said.

The man, who spoke neither English nor French, was escorted off the airplane.[...]
Jewish leaders in Montreal criticized the move as insensitive, saying the flight attendants should have explained to the other passengers that the man was simply praying and doing no harm.

Hasidic Rabbi Ronny Fine said he often prays on airplanes, but typically only gets curious stares.

"If it's something that you're praying in your own seat and not taking over the whole plane, I don't think it should be a problem," said Fine.

The Jewish group B'nai Brith Canada has offered to help give Air Canada crews sensitivity training.

I guess he looked too much like the West's newly designated disposable subhumans.
How dare he act like "the other".
B'nai Brith, (a powerful arm of Canada's Israel Lobby) will teach those ignorant goy the difference between a good Semite and a bad Semite...

The bigotry in the West is just out of hand.

 

[ScioAgapeOmnis]

I wonder if he could pursue legal action? Allow this to happen once and they'll do it all the time as they please. I am not religious and *I* would probably pray on an international flight lol. I bet a LOT of people on the plane prayed, but becasue they didn't bob back and forth nobody cared. If you fold your arms into the proper christian prayer position, you're fine. If you wobble, you make people nervous?

Someone should point to a christian who prays with clasped hands and go "Aaaah!! A brainwashed christian cultist is right next to me! He might sacrifice me to Yahweh any second, hasn't the Spanish Inquisition taught you anything people? Run for your lives!!"

The airline should be sued for every penny it has, AND it should publically apologize (at best). Somehow I doubt either will happen :(

 

[jacjon]

If it had been a Muslim even lowering his head, he would have been taken upon as a terrorist, wrestled to the floor and escorted off the plane in chains.
The world would have been told that another possible terrorist attack had been averted.
The double standard expected by the Jewish community would be laughable if it wasn't so horribly true.
Do we need look any further than the honestly reported ( NOT by the U.S. media, of course ) 'war crimes that are continuing in the Middle East - how about Gaza !!!!
To think the B'nai Brith has the audacity, no, the ARROGANCE, to offer 'sensitivity training' is a crime unto itself. Why don't they start with the IDF???
Jacjon

 

[Amelopsis]

I think that sensitivity training is absolutely in order.

It should've been implemented the very first time a brown person was wrongfully removed from an aircraft due to the suspicions rooted in bigotry and ignorance of other white travellers.

This would also preclude B'nai brith from doing the training. (Given further thought, I'm not sure who should do the training at all.)

 

[Mark]

He should have booked a flight on ADL Airlines. Just joking. It's kind of hard to empathize, but I can to some extent. The guy should be able to pray if he wants to without harassment just as a priest ought to be able to carry 'holy water' on the plane without it being deemed a potentially dangerous explosive. Maybe if the guy reads C of Z, nevermind, that's highly unlikely.

It's a shame what life has come to. Hopefully life goes somewhere better.