<p>Muslim</a> scholars pulled from Delta plane in Memphis | Reuters</p>
<p>simply outrageous. They passed all security checks, are clearly good to go, are ACADEMIC SCHOLARS, and yet Delta Airlines sided with the pilot on the mere basis of name, ethnicity and religion.</p>
<p>The youth needs to send a message to this airline that we do not tolerate such attitudes in the companies we solicit business from.</p>
<p>Yeah, um… The CC College Life forum isn’t going to make a dent in Delta Airlines.</p>
<p>nucleation. student leaders (or members) of multicultural orgs should know and inform their members. nationwide editorials go out tonight. the boycott is symbolic, naturally, but Americans who still treasure individual liberty should be heard.</p>
<p>Nah bro, I like Delta.</p>
<p>I’m a minority and don’t advocate racism. However, in the above story, according to the NY Times, the travelers names matched those on a security threat list. That was being cautious not racist. Sorry but I think you have to be careful.</p>
<p>principles, bro, principles</p>
<p>article link?</p>
<p>they had already cleared security. What threat did they pose? Patting down people and making certain classes of people wait longer – is maybe something people have learn to put up with. But asking them to deplane after they were confirmed not to be a threat but merely because of a pilot’s racist attitude already reminds me of Rosa Parks.</p>
<p>It’s one pilot, not the whole airline. They just booked them on another flight. It was disgusting and racist of that one pilot, yes, but I wouldn’t blame the whole airline for it.</p>
<p>the airline refused to discipline the pilot.</p>
<p>But they give free peanuts…</p>
<p>PRINCESSMAHiNA: They were 9 hours late to the conference.</p>
<p>I read that article and I don’t really know what to think of it. If it’s truly as the article states, then it’s abhorrent that all of the Delta personnel were so blase about very racist thoughts. If, as the article suggests, there is more to the story, then I may revise my judgment; however, for the time being, I’m shocked.</p>
<p>It was the pilot not the airline…as for why he wasn’t disciplined maybe its possible that they need all the pilots they can get or something. The point is that it is not the airlines fault for the pilot’s personal decision.</p>
<p>I never said the pilot shouldn’t be punished because he should. But you can’t FORCE someone to fly a plane unless you do so at gunpoint or something. </p>
<p>Delta should definitely punish him, but I’m not going to blame them for something he did.</p>
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<p>Whoa there, Rosa Parks? Does anyone else think that’s a tad extreme? Plus yeah, as people have said, it was the pilot, not the whole airline. And their names were on a security list, so considering a terrorist leader was just killed less than a week ago, I think it’s okay to check again. Not that what happened was okay, but I don’t think it’s completely insane to be extra careful.</p>
<p>database: We are looking for muslim male with long beards</p>
<p>pilot: sees asian female in 60s, whitechild, muslim male with long beard</p>
<p>who should he remove?</p>
<p>Since when is Islam a race?</p>
<p>Foolish people all too often treat religious discrimination the same as discrimination based on gender, race, or nationality. What they overlook is that religion is something that people choose, unlike race and gender, which are things people cannot control. People who choose to belong to a religion associated with terrorism must deal with the consequences.</p>
<p>how many old white islamic guysare out there? or islamic asian teens?</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>^That’s completely irrelevant in this incident.</p>
<p>Transfers2010- if you were a religious person, you’d know that the vast majority of people don’t “choose” their religion. They are called unto it by their god(s) and are compelled to worship. Your argument sounds like the “gay people CHOOSE to be that way, which is the wrong way, so I don’t feel bad for them.”</p>
<p>Shellz- to my knowledge, pakistan did not want the body back. Osama was given a “proper” burial, with precautions taken as to not offend his religion (ie not cremating him.) </p>
<p>I don’t see a problem with equating this situation to racial discrimination. Discrimination is discrimination.</p>
<p>So I have a question: my name comes from the Qur’an, but I have no affiliation with Islam whatsoever. Is it okay for a pilot to “not feel comfortable” flying me because of the religious affiliation of my name (which I did not choose) which wrongly gets directly associated with terrorism? Or, is it okay for a pilot to deny me because I’m African American (and there is a frequency of AA Muslims), and he thinks I might steal people’s belongings? </p>
<p>There’s no war on Islam, there’s a war on terrorism. President Obama said it himself; Osama bin laden was a mass-murderer of Muslim people. Muslims are not terrorists, terrorists can be Muslim (as well as can be Jewish, female, American, Brazilian, etc.)</p>