British Muslim airline pilot ordered off flight
Independent
A British Muslim airline pilot yesterday described the "humiliating" moment when he was hauled off a transatlantic flight just before take-off.
Amar Ashraf, 28, who was born in Wrexham, North Wales, said he felt " demoralised and humiliated" after being told to leave the flight from Manchester to Newark by a stewardess, and then being questioned by armed police. He believes his removal was down to having a "Muslim-sounding name".
Mr Ashraf, 28, a British Pakistani who was returning to his job as a pilot for one of Continental's partner airlines in the US, will lodge a formal complaint with Continental Airlines, with whom he was travelling, as well as with the US authorities. Read more
db: As well as Monarch Airlines removing two passengers from a flight at the weekend for "speaking what was believed to be Arabic and repeatedly checking their watches" a story on BBC Radio 4 revealed that a couple were refused entry to London's millenium wheel - also for speaking Arabic. Gone crazy.
A British Muslim airline pilot yesterday described the "humiliating" moment when he was hauled off a transatlantic flight just before take-off.
Amar Ashraf, 28, who was born in Wrexham, North Wales, said he felt " demoralised and humiliated" after being told to leave the flight from Manchester to Newark by a stewardess, and then being questioned by armed police. He believes his removal was down to having a "Muslim-sounding name".
Mr Ashraf, 28, a British Pakistani who was returning to his job as a pilot for one of Continental's partner airlines in the US, will lodge a formal complaint with Continental Airlines, with whom he was travelling, as well as with the US authorities. Read more
db: As well as Monarch Airlines removing two passengers from a flight at the weekend for "speaking what was believed to be Arabic and repeatedly checking their watches" a story on BBC Radio 4 revealed that a couple were refused entry to London's millenium wheel - also for speaking Arabic. Gone crazy.
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