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Wednesday
Sep062006

Prayer, like language, is dangerous

First they went after the holy language, now they're going for the chosen people:

Some fellow passengers are questioning why an Orthodox Jewish man was removed from an Air Canada Jazz flight in Montreal last week for praying.

The man was a passenger on a Sept. 1 flight from Montreal to New York City when the incident happened.

The airplane was heading toward the runway at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport when eyewitnesses said the Orthodox man began to pray.

"He was clearly a Hasidic Jew," said Yves Faguy, a passenger seated nearby. "He had some sort of cover over his head. He was reading from a book.

"He wasn't exactly praying out loud but he was lurching back and forth," Faguy added.

The action didn't seem to bother anyone, Faguy said, but a flight attendant approached the man and told him his praying was making other passengers nervous.

"The attendant actually recognized out loud that he wasn't a Muslim and that she was sorry for the situation but they had to ask him to leave," Faguy said.
Can you believe that? They kicked him off the plane even though he wasn't a Muslim.

Reader Comments (5)

Unacceptable. I feel offended that someone other than muslims get kicked off planes!

Sep 6, 2006 at 12:07 PM | Unregistered CommenterM

Sonofa...!!!

Sep 6, 2006 at 8:47 PM | Unregistered CommenterCosmic

The obvious analysis is: the other passengers were just jealous cos the kosher meals always come out first. So this was their revenge.

Sep 6, 2006 at 10:50 PM | Unregistered CommenterDan

Its good muslims are usally terroists, not jews...

Sep 9, 2006 at 10:30 AM | Unregistered CommenterMarcus Duchmar

"Can you believe that? They kicked him off the plane even though he wasn’t a Muslim."
But hey! They felt sorry for doing it.

Sep 10, 2006 at 11:57 AM | Unregistered Commenteralif

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