Author Topic: Removed from plane for prayer (Read 2652 times)

Chairboy · « **on:** November 21, 2006, 08:27:58 AM »

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/21/passengers.removed.ap/index.html

6 muslim imams were removed from a flight because they made their normal prayers. I'm not a fan of the religions, but this really seems overboard. The airline should not be interfering with people's religions. If it was a christian group, there would be public outrage. But it's become acceptable to discriminate against these guys, and that's unfortunate.

Just posting it as a reality check. If you read the story and say "What's the big deal?" then take a moment to consider this: Selective religious discrimination never stops at one target, it's just a matter of time before it gets to yours.

john9001 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 21, 2006, 08:37:53 AM »

airplanes is for traveling, churches, mosques, synagogues is for praying.

exception:: if the airplane is falling out of the sky. "this is your captian speaking,the prayer light is on"

lazs2 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 21, 2006, 08:41:37 AM »

don't know if they were breaking any airline laws or not but it sure seems odd that you are the defender of religion... especialy one so barbaric and backward.

I would not want some fundamentalist christian to practice his daily handling of poisonous snakes on a flight either tho.

I am wondering if you would be outraged if a group of christians were thrown off the plane after they all stood and started chanting and rocking back and forth with glazed looks on their faces.

I am beggining to understand that you are not so much anti religion but anti christian...

did someone dressed like Jesus scare your mom when she was pregnant with you or something?

lazs

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 21, 2006, 08:58:18 AM »

Unfortunately it seems that Islamic terrorists also like to pray before committing their terrorist acts, and have done so on aircraft before.

So I really don't see why it is so unbelieveable that 3 muslims standing in the middle of an aircraft that suddenly start to pray together might freak out non-muslims on the plane.

Sandman · « **Reply #4 on:** November 21, 2006, 09:42:31 AM »

The solution is a simple one.

Ban all religions.

lukster · « **Reply #5 on:** November 21, 2006, 09:45:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
The solution is a simple one.

Ban all religions.

Are you gonna start with Atheism?

Chairboy · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2006, 09:46:04 AM »

Lazs, are you getting enough oxygen? It would be outrageous if it were christians too. What part of "selective religious discrimination is bad" is unclear?

Sandman · « **Reply #7 on:** November 21, 2006, 09:50:10 AM »

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Originally posted by lukster
Are you gonna start with Atheism?

The absence of religion is not a religion.

lukster · « **Reply #8 on:** November 21, 2006, 09:50:46 AM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
The absence of religion is not a religion.

The courts say you're wrong, Well, they say that Atheism is a religion so it isn't in absence of.

Sandman · « **Reply #9 on:** November 21, 2006, 09:51:52 AM »

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Originally posted by lukster
The courts say you're wrong, Well, they say that Atheism is a religion so it isn't in absence of.

Source?

lukster · « **Reply #10 on:** November 21, 2006, 10:00:38 AM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
Source?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45874

Of course the courts aren't always right but they do make the laws.

Saintaw · « **Reply #11 on:** November 21, 2006, 10:20:36 AM »

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Originally posted by john9001
airplanes is for traveling, churches, mosques, synagogues is for praying.

pot, kettle, kettle pot...

A British Airways (BA) employee has lost her fight to openly wear a cross necklace at work at Heathrow.

I'm sure the local zealots will feel differently about this.

Sandman · « **Reply #12 on:** November 21, 2006, 10:45:55 AM »

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Originally posted by lukster
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45874

Of course the courts aren't always right but they do make the laws.

I've read through the case .

The court did not rule that atheism was a religion.

The court ruled that for the purposes of the 1st Amendment atheism is an equivalent to religion.

The court also mentions that the argument for or against a supreme being is a philosophical question and not a legal one.

Chairboy · « **Reply #13 on:** November 21, 2006, 11:04:13 AM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
A British Airways (BA) employee has lost her fight to openly wear a cross necklace at work at Heathrow.

This is stupid, why would they prevent her from wearing it? If there's some sort of dress code that forbids jewelry, that's one thing I guess, but if it's specifically because it's a cross, that's just crap. She's a private citizen working for a corporation, what harm exactly do they think she would do?

Bronk · « **Reply #14 on:** November 21, 2006, 11:08:15 AM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
This is stupid, why would they prevent her from wearing it? If there's some sort of dress code that forbids jewelry, that's one thing I guess, but if it's specifically because it's a cross, that's just crap. She's a private citizen working for a corporation, what harm exactly do they think she would do?

zealot

Bronk