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Don't Fly During Ramadan
An anonymous reader sends in a harrowing story from Aditya Mukerjee about his recent attempt to fly from New York to Los Angeles. After being pulled aside in the security line, he faced hours of interrogation by uncommunicative officials from several different agencies. When he was finally cleared, his airline, Jet Blue, wouldn't let him on the plane anyway. When he got home, he found evidence that it had been searched. He writes,
"It was 2:20PM by the time I was finally released from custody. My entire body was shaking uncontrollably, as if I were extremely cold, even though I wasn’t. I couldn’t identify the emotion I was feeling. Surprisingly, as far as I could tell, I was shaking out of neither fear nor anger - I felt neither of those emotions at the time. The shaking motion was entirely involuntary, and I couldn’t force my limbs to be still, no matter how hard I concentrated. In the end, JetBlue did refund my flight, but they cancelled my entire round-trip ticket. Because I had to rebook on another airline that same day, it ended up costing me about $700 more for the entire trip. .. But no matter how I’ve tried to rationalize this in the last week and a half, nothing can block out the memory of the chilling sensation I felt that first morning, lying on my air mattress, trying to forget the image of large, uniformed men invading the sanctuary of my home in my absence, wondering when they had done it, wondering why they had done it."
It's also sad because almost every religion has bad examples. Hell, the Talmud says that all gentiles should be slaughtered like animals simply for not being Jewish, but we don't keep Jews off of planes.
So we're reposting Fan Fiction now? He missed a flight, got in trouble at work, and made up an elaborate story about Americans hating Brown People so he missed his flight. What happened to any kind of evidence? We castigate the Religious because they don't waste time with "Facts" - but look how quickly we jump on the bandwagon when it's something we believe in.
Are you muslim? If you are, go talk to some of the individuals in your community who advocate Sharia and plot to murder people. Tell those people to start treating others with respect. Tell them to live and let live. Maybe if they get the message you'll start getting more respect.
Hey, Islam.
Are you proud of yourself yet? Proud of what you've become to yourself, your adherents, and to the rest of the world? Proud of espousing hate and murder? Proud of beheading people? Proud of hijacking aircraft and killing the passengers? Proud of blowing up buildings? Proud of chanting "Death to America" during your religious services? I can't imagine that this is what you call a "religion of peace".
Hey, Arabia.
Are you proud of yourself yet? Proud of what you've become to yourself, your citizens, to the rest of the world? Proud of killing each other over trivia? Proud of your car bombs and suicide bombers? Proud of the mass murders? Proud of inspiring hate and terror?
Dear Disappointed Citizen,
STFU and leave.
Sincerely,
America.
Well, of course this happens to people of all races, but if it doesn't happen to a minority, then it is not controversial, and nobody would click on the links. So you only get it reported when it happens to a minority. We can't just throw out a random searchee just because they happen to be of the race/ethnicity/religion that is responsible for most of the terrorist acts in our country.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.