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TexasTowelie

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Fri Sep 20, 2019, 04:56 AM Sep 2019

Two Muslim men say American Airlines canceled their flight to DFW because crew 'didn't feel

Two Muslim men say American Airlines canceled their flight to DFW because crew 'didn't feel comfortable' flying with them


Two Dallas-area Muslim men say their American Airlines flight was canceled because the crew "didn't feel comfortable" after they waved to one another boarding a flight from Birmingham, Ala., to DFW International Airport.

When they got off, they said they were trailed by law enforcement officers, interviewed by an FBI agent and had their bags searched again by TSA during their trip Saturday.

Abderraoof Alkhawaldeh, a Muslim motivational speaker from Irving, and Dallas nonprofit leader Issam Abdallah said it was a blatant act of racial profiling and they have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Transportation against Fort Worth-based American. They said they want to talk with the airline's leaders about their treatment and what they say is an increasing number of cases of discrimination against Arabs and Muslims.

"It was the most humiliating day of my life," Abdallah said, speaking Thursday at the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2019/09/19/two-muslim-men-say-american-airlines-canceled-their-flight-to-dfw-because-crew-didn-t-feel-comfortable-flying-with-them/
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Two Muslim men say American Airlines canceled their flight to DFW because crew 'didn't feel (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2019 OP
Last month, the FAA racially profiled the mayor of my town, whose background is no_hypocrisy Sep 2019 #1

no_hypocrisy

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1. Last month, the FAA racially profiled the mayor of my town, whose background is
Fri Sep 20, 2019, 06:33 AM
Sep 2019

Syria and being a Muslim. They detained him, questioned him whether he met with "terrorists" in Turkey, and took away his celphone for three weeks before being forced to return it to him.

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