Jewish man removed from airplane for praying

[rasmussen 0]

What a shameful and embarrassing situation for the airline!

Repect and tolerance, not only for those of faith, but for those that are different than you, not for the sake of tolerance, but for love, understanding, peace, acceptance...

[I'm Gone 60]

Aren't we a country with freedom of speech and religion? Who cares if someone wants to pray......there are a lot of other things this country needs to worry about besides when and where a person is praying.

At 30,000 feet the Bill of Rights don't apply.

[Ban Hammer 13,676]

Aren't we a country with freedom of speech and religion? Who cares if someone wants to pray......there are a lot of other things this country needs to worry about besides when and where a person is praying.

At 30,000 feet the Bill of Rights don't apply.

now that is the quote of the day

[Sister Fracas 5]

Keep your praying at home or in your church, temple, synagoge, mosque, or wherever, or keep them to yourself. When Im on an airplane, I dont want to see anyone with a cross, star, bible, etc., carrying on in some foreign language praying to god, allah, jehovah, budda...no one!

Planes are to fly from point A to point B safely....we dont need religious fanatics praying or praising their deity, whoever that may be.

Like hell he does....sit there and keep quiet......scared???...dont fly...walk, drive, take a train, ride a mule, hop on a boat....but dont sit next to me on a plane ranting in some strange language. Id be the first to jump on him.

oh *yawn*.... same old nonsensical drivel.

And as I said on the Muslim thread, I don't care what anyone does on a plane, provided it doesn't inconvenience me. (Specifically, don't stop the drink cart on its way to my seat nor block the aisle so I can't go pee. My needs are simple. )

glad to see the avatar back.

Edited September 6, 2006 by Frances

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Aren't we a country with freedom of speech and religion? Who cares if someone wants to pray......there are a lot of other things this country needs to worry about besides when and where a person is praying.

At 30,000 feet the Bill of Rights don't apply.

now that is the quote of the day

indeed. Just use your free speech to talk about bomb making at 30,000 ft. See What happens.

[Veiled Princess 1]

Sometimes when I fly and I fall asleep sitting up my mouth opens and my head bobs all over the place pretty violently. I think sleeping on a plane is more of a threat to others than someone praying.

That sounds like a personal problem

[chri'stina 190]

Aren't we a country with freedom of speech and religion? Who cares if someone wants to pray......there are a lot of other things this country needs to worry about besides when and where a person is praying.

At 30,000 feet the Bill of Rights don't apply.

now that is the quote of the day

indeed. Just use your free speech to talk about bomb making at 30,000 ft. See What happens.

[Veiled Princess 1]

indeed. Just use your free speech to talk about bomb making at 30,000 ft. See What happens.

I would assume that 'right' might be infringed upon even if you had your feet planted firmly on the ground nowadays.

[Ban Hammer 13,676]

Sometimes when I fly and I fall asleep sitting up my mouth opens and my head bobs all over the place pretty violently.

that might give the guy sitting next to you ideas

[Ivanovo 0]

Sometimes when I fly and I fall asleep sitting up my mouth opens and my head bobs all over the place pretty violently. I think sleeping on a plane is more of a threat to others than someone praying.

when I was a kid my folks had a figure of a scotty dog on the shelf in the back window of their car. It's head bobbed around when the car moved, and continued to bob when the car stopped.

It's mouth stayed closed though. Thanks for the chuckle

Edited September 6, 2006 by Ivanovo

[mawilson 2,133]

Some Muslims and others have required times to pray.

How does that work then? Say the "required" time to pray is 4pm, would that be

the time at origin, destination, local time, or GMT?

[sarah and hicham 3]

I hate it when people get directly onto a plane and the first thng they do is put their seat back and leave it there for 8 hours. Boooo!

[Risto 0]

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

The airplane was heading towards 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 man, who spoke neither English nor French, was escorted off the airplane.

Air Canada Jazz termed the situation "delicate," but says it received more than one complaint about the man's behaviour.

The crew had to act in the interest of the majority of passengers, said Jazz spokeswoman Manon Stewart.

[...]

Jewish leaders in Montreal criticized the move as insensitive, saying the flight attendants should have explained to the other passengers that the man was simply praying and doing no harm.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/20...yeronplane.html

It’s annoying someone praying near you