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In the press yesterday it was reported that two men of Asian appearance where taken of a plane in Malaga, bound for Manchester because some passengers refused to get on the plane with them on it. Their reasons for this was because they were wearing Muslim dress and speaking their native language Arabic. The two men were allowed to board a later flight after they had been questioned intensly by the local police. Was this the right thing to do by Monarch Airlines with the current climate of fear about a suspected terror plot, or was it wrong to escort two men of a plane because they were wearing their traditional clothes and speaking their native language. Should the passengers have a right in saying who they want to fly with or not, once on the plane and through security checks, or should the people refusing to fly, been left behind to get a later flight and the two men left alone to complete their travels like everyone else. Where do you your draw the line to say who should have the say on this matter, the passengers, cabin crew or security?? What are your views about this??
You know this is a hard topic because some responses could be taken as racist. Personaly i think its wrong to escort EVERY muslim from wherever because of their clothes but on the other hand after last week i see why people get scared. BUT people can not assume every muslim is going to blow you up. After the july bombings last year i will be honest in the place i work a muslim came into my workplace with a backpack and i was a little scared but he came in often in the end and i grew to realise i was being stupid! I think its very wrong to judge all muslims by the sick ones. We could say that about most things.
You have to as yourself the question if you where on that plane would you feel worried?
me personally i wouldnt be worried about it!
its probably safer to fly now than it has been for a while
but people will be people
Personally it has put me off flying. Not that i agree not allowing muslims to fly far from it! Just always seems to be something and a lot of the time aswell reporters go under cover and get away with smuggling things on a plane and that worried me aswell, they made it look easy.
The terrorist threat would not put me off flying because I have a fear of flying anyway and have never been in an aeroplane!
But seriously, we can all sit and be all multicultural and PC on our PCs, but in a strange situation where there is a perceived risk who knows how we’d feel.
I understand that the men in question were behaving oddly as well as being of middle-eastern appearance. It could have been the behaviour that decided things.
Next time I go on a National Express coach, if the driver has a Glaswegian accent should I demand he has a breathalyser test? :lol:
Further to my above post – Sky News has just posted an item about Boeing allegedly building planes with faulty components.
If I was the pilot, and people said they refused to fly with the 2 men, I would have just flown to my destination with whoever wanted to fly. If some passengers didn’t want to fly then that would have been their problem and they would have had to make their own way home. Monarch airlines shouldn’t have pandered to ignorance, you can’t throw someone off a plane just because they look like an arab or speak arabic. I hope the 2 men sue the airline because obviously they were discriminated against based on their race which is unjustifiable.
It ties in with the idea of racial-profiling which some people are calling for. Most people with common sense realize that it won’t work because all the terrorists need to do is get someone who doesn’t match the profile. So judging someone on no other basis but their race is a flawed strategy.
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