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No wonder they fight for Israel. Nobody else gives 'ema break.

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.

The man, who spoke neither English nor French, was escorted off the airplane.
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I don't know about you, but praying out loud on an airplane is usually associated with nervousness. If the guy next to me is nervous, he's going to make me nervous. :shrug:

If this had been a Muslim man praying and rocking back and forth, everyone'd be giving the thumbs-up for such foresight as removing such a threat from an airplane. He's Jewish so it must be Anti-Semitism?

Weak!
 
Look at the big picture. Anti-semitism is abundant at the moment.
 
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Anti-semitism has made a remarkable comeback in the last decade or so. Asking him to stop praying might have worked.
The airline is not saying if the man was told he was not allowed to pray, but a spokesperson said the man was back on board the next flight to New York.
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at the momment? ... could be wrong but i seem to remember that there were whole centuries of it.

it's the beards ...

and preying .... on planes...

whether it's right or wrong, Jew or Muslim ...why take the risk?


on the same basis though, have you a problem with an equally law abiding Muslim suffering the same fate in the same circumstance?

at best you could claim anti-semetism and anti-muslim sentiment ... in this given example i rather doubt you could realistically claim the former is more prevalent than the latter though.

:shrug:
 
I've always been a proponent of filling the plane with twilight gas. It would save tons on inflight meals and movies. All one need do is replace the attendants with paramedics. Knocked out people can't cause trouble.
 
BB said:
on the same basis though, have you a problem with an equally law abiding Muslim suffering the same fate in the same circumstance?
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Only to the degree they pray. A Jew sits or kneels or stands & prays...perhaps rocking back & forth.

A Muslim requires a compass & room to kneel.
 
...and a terrorist who's hankering to blow up a plane wouldn't dare get dressed as a Hassidic Jew in order to get past security. Nope...wouldn't happen.
 
unclehobart said:
I've always been a proponent of filling the plane with twilight gas. It would save tons on inflight meals and movies. All one need do is replace the attendants with paramedics. Knocked out people can't cause trouble.
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I'd fly all the time if that was the case, that stuff is fun...

Anyway, I'll be sure and pray the next time I'm on an airplane.
 
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