Sharia Law Conflicts with Aircraft Seating Assignments
Just another day in the life of an idiot. Thank goodness they didn’t mollycoddle him and instead kicked his butt off the plane. I wonder how long the airline will have to wait before the inevitable Islamophobia lawsuit is filed against them…
Sheikh delays plane over seating
Fri Jul 27, 2007
MILAN (Reuters) – A Qatar sheikh held up a British Airways flight at Milan’s Linate airport for nearly three hours after discovering three of his female relatives had been seated next to men they did not know.
When none of the other business class passengers agreed to swap seats, the sheikh, a member of Qatar’s ruling family, went to the pilot, who had already started the engine, to complain, an airport official said.
But the pilot ordered him and his traveling companions, the three women, two men, a cook and a servant, off the plane.
The London-bound flight took off nearly three hours behind schedule Thursday evening and around 50 of the 115 passengers missed connecting flights.
Traditions in the conservative Gulf Arab region bar women from mixing with unrelated men.
27 July, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Hey oil tick, sit your fat arse down before I make you sit down. You moon god worshipping POS!
Three hour delay. I hope there was at least free beers, and hot pork skins for everyone.
27 July, 2007 at 5:36 pm
This is a set up just like the flying imams. I doubt this was his first flight and I am also willing to bet they at least once looked at their seat assignments before boarding. The crew did the right thing by tossing them but airport security should have arrested them for causing a problem on board.
The important thing to remember here was people would rather wait and be delayed for hours than surrender a seat to an islamonazi bully. This one was a victory for our side.
27 July, 2007 at 8:12 pm
3 hours of haggling over this lunacy? The infidel world has gone nuts. The passengers who missed their connecting flights should sue-the pilot should have given those idiots 10 minutes to behave or get off and not a minute more.
The ummah really needs to start its own airline. For safety reasons, that airline should be kept out of infidel airspace.
28 July, 2007 at 7:17 am
What a bunch of crap! &^%$#@
I know how they can solve this sort of predicament real quick.
DON’T go anywhere that does not practice you backwards cult sharia.
In other words do not mingle among the infidels. Stay home.
Good point Ronin.
28 July, 2007 at 9:29 am
Someone here is going to try this same thing, and then file a lawsuit claiming religious discrimination..
Or, the conciliatory gestures from the airlines are going to start first (to avoid the possibility of the aforementioned lawsuit), and there will be Muslim-friendly seating available along with the halal food.
28 July, 2007 at 4:29 pm
This ticks me off. To top it off, his female relatives were probably stoned to death later for sitting next to men they didn’t know – however brief it was.
Our daughter flies all the time to and from school and she doesn’t get a choice on who she sits next to! Freaking idiot sheikh. I wish they would have beat the crap out of that loser. Argh!
28 July, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Stop worrying the next time Muslims act up on a plane just scream as loud as you can “stop them, stop them don’t let them into the cockpit”. That should be sufficient to get them beaten to death by the other passengers and crew. Make sure you explain you had a fear for your life and blame islamophobic stereotypes. You will be a poster child for left leaning newspapers and your book explaining you now realize you over reacted will make you rich. Oprah might highlight your book and you can by a nice beach house in the Bahamas.
28 July, 2007 at 4:48 pm
[...] this over at Doctor Bulldog’s place. Wouldn’t you just be livid if you were on this flight? From Reuters: MILAN (Reuters) – A [...]
28 July, 2007 at 4:51 pm
True story Ronin.
I put this story on my blog because I found it so freaking infuriating. Thus, the pingback