6 Muslims sue US Airways

DARSITA

MINNEAPOLIS - Six Islamic leaders who were removed from a US Airways flight in November are suing the airline for discrimination.

The imams were returning from a religious conference in November when they were taken off a plane in Minneapolis, handcuffed and questioned. They had prayed on their prayer rugs in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport before the flight, and after they boarded, a passenger passed a note to a flight attendant.

When the men returned to the airport the next day, they said, the airline refunded their fare but refused to sell them another ticket.
US Airways Group Inc. has said prayer was never the issue. A passenger reported overhearing anti-U.S. statements, and the men got up and moved around the airplane, the airline said.

The men said they had done nothing that should have been suspicious.
US Airways released a statement saying it hadn't seen the lawsuit, filed Monday, but that its initial position had not changed: that its employees "acted appropriately, and we continue to back the actions of our crew and ground employees in this case."

Imam Omar Shahin, one of the detained imams and the president of the North American Imams Federation, declined to comment ahead of a news conference planned later Tuesday in Washington.

The incident prompted the Muslim Public Affairs Council to complain to the Transportation Department, and the Homeland Security Department's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties said it would investigate.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/...engers_removed

DARSITA

Most international airports have prayer rooms. USA are the only one who don't have them.

RedChaSiew

>>>Most international airports have prayer rooms. USA are the only one who don't have them. <<

Yeah and on that - they should really have a variety one for each of:

buddhist prayer room

Bahai prayer room

Hare Krishna prayer room

Christian chapel




anyone i forgot..??

rurouni_khairul

Don't compare us with your religion. Our religion requires us to pray 5 times a day whereas the other religions requires once a week, once a month or even once a year!

Yes, we are pious people!

RedChaSiew

>>Yes, we are pious people! <<<


yeah ..and look where that got u?

maybe you are not that pious BUT only pretend to be 'pious' - have u considered that fact?

DARSITA

Yey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Airport officials said Friday they will consider setting aside a private area for prayer and meditation at the request of imams concerned about the removal of six Muslim clerics from a US Airways flight last week.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/01/D8LOC15O0.html

RedChaSiew

yeh. my hopes are high for having buddhist prayers room too. yeh yeh