I'm sorry sir, but this is a "No Davening" flight

I wonder what they would have done if it was two Muslims Praying? It's amazing that anybody could see prayer as threatening. Of course, it wasn't the action of these two that disturbed the others but their "foreign appearance" and the fact that they weren't speaking in English. Final Score: Xenophobia 1, Common Sense 0

Flight Diverted Due to Confusion Over Prayer

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Reuters) - A Delta Air Lines flight was diverted to Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday after passengers mistook prayers being said by two Orthodox Jews on board as a threat, the airport manager said.

Delta Flight 458 from Atlanta to Newark, New Jersey, landed at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, and passengers were taken off the flight while officials investigated a report of two "Middle Eastern men'' creating a disturbance on board.

"Everybody is kind of on edge, and it just doesn't take much to upset a lot of people,'' Charlotte-Douglas International Airport operations manager Jerry Orr said.

Story here.



Ennis posted this on November 5, 2001 9:41 AM

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