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Muslim woman faced discrimination on United-linked flight

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Tahera AhmadA social media campaign gained strength on Monday for a Muslim chaplain at Northwestern University who said she was denied an unopened can of soda on a United Airlines-affiliated carrier after a flight attendant told her it could be used as a weapon.

Referring to the incident last week, Tahera Ahmad said in a Facebook post the flight attendant had discriminated against her and that she was the subject of anti-Islamic hatred by other passengers on the flight from Chicago to Washington.

Bob Birge, a spokesman for Republic Airways Holdings, which operated the Shuttle America flight on behalf of United, told cable news channel CNN on Monday that the airline’s beverage policy does not prohibit serving unopened cans to passengers.

Ahmad has garnered global support on Twitter at #UnitedforTahera, where many have urged a boycott of the airline.

United spokesman Charles Hobart said a flight attendant attempted several times to accommodate Ahmad’s beverage request after a misunderstanding regarding a can of diet soda.

“We spoke with Ms. Ahmad on Saturday to get a better understanding of what occurred and to apologize for not delivering the service our customers expect when traveling with us,” Hobart said.

REUTERS

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11 responses to “Muslim woman faced discrimination on United-linked flight”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Oh wonderful. Another ‘pig-in-a-polk’ news story for Twits to Tweet.
    Last time it was a woman who belittled her employee because he DIDN’T serve her cookies right.
    One might understand the “anti-Islamic hatred by other passengers on the flight”, because she makes a mountain out of a molehill and disturbs everyone else, just like the idiot Jewish Males who can’t sit their asses down beside women at least to get the bloody plane into the air on time.
    I suppose her broken fingernail from opening a can herself could be a ‘weapon too. THAT excuse sounds as stupid as half the things one can’t carry onto a plane any more, while they add weight to the baggage fee.
    SUFFER …. The Terrorists stuck us ALL with these little shitty moments in life. Live with it. Sip your drink.

    1. O Avatar
      O

      Said like a bigot christian pig. Its always great to see you whine, geez Islam has made you inferior and insignificant. The more you hate Islam and Muslims the more weak, inferior and insignificant you become. So keep whining and hating, disgusting spineless old fart.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        I thought I got in 3 ‘sects’ of idiots there at least. What’s yours again??

        1. Hend Abyad Avatar
          Hend Abyad

          Sale face.

      2. O Avatar
        O

        Fake o

        1. O Avatar
          O

          Fake O

    2. Hend Abyad Avatar
      Hend Abyad

      Introducing the Frumqa

      http://forward.com/opinion/309258/jewish-woman-under-the-veil/?utm_content=opinion_Newsletter_MainList_Title_Position-1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Opinion&utm_campaign

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Wow … not my world for sure.
        But what’s a ‘Few Hundred’ sweaty bodies anyway? The surprise is that there’s actually children. I can’t imagine what weird fetish their men have. :-))))

    3. Hend Abyad Avatar
      Hend Abyad

      Jihadists in the service of imperialism

      by
      Thierry Meyssan

      Damascus (Syria)

      Western
      governments no longer hide the fact that they’re using jihadists – NATO
      overthrew Mouamar el-Kadhafi by using al-Qaïda as its its only ground
      forces; Israël displaced the UN Forces to Golan, and replaced them with
      al-Nosra; the international anti-Daesh Coalition allowed Palmyra to fall
      in order to cause more problems for Syria. But while we can understand
      Western interests, we fail to grasp why and how the jihadists can serve
      Uncle Sam in the name of the Coran.

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Republic Airways Holdings, linked to Shuttle America, linked to United ‘cheap-seats’ links for ticketing and hopping around lesser cities, says: ‘Sorry’. End of story.

  3. doron Avatar
    doron

    over touchy..it’s not as if they demanded her to remove the head cover or forced pork down her belly

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