Sikh woman ordered to show breast pump after fellow passenger suspects she may be a terrorist

[kpete]

Valerie Kaur, an attorney and filmmaker who regularly appears on MSNBC, said she was waiting to board a flight to Los Angeles when she removed the luggage tag on her carry-on bag, where she kept her breast pump.

“The passenger behind me raised his voice,” Kaur wrote on her Facebook page. “I turned around. He was a white man and his face was angry. He asked why I removed the tag. I offered to explain but he said he didn’t want to know.”

She said the man instead raised his suspicions with other passengers in line, and an “alarmed and angered” gate agent questioned her.

“I explained that I was a nursing mother, but she still didn’t let me board with my bag,” Kaur said. “Her face was just as angry. I had to pull out the breast pump to show her. Only then was I allowed to take my seat. All the passengers in first class watched and I smiled weakly to show them I wasn’t a terrorist.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/sikh-woman-ordered-to-show-breast-pump-after-fellow-passenger-suspects-she-may-be-a-terrorist/

[Person 2713]

1. Large sectors are sick and deranged now. Full on paranoia and hallucinations

It's a fucking breast pump none of your fucking business why someone removes a tag
Did they think when she removed a tag they would blow up? Reminds me of cop stories where one hallucinates a person having a gun or just thinks they may be dangerous and kills them.
Sikhs are not Muslim but were attacked after 911 . You would think people would remember that
Not that Muslims should be attacked without cause either

[longship]

2. The Sikh religion is like the Quakers, maybe more so.

They are a religion of peace and kumbaya and getting along.

This lunacy has to stop.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. "Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche