Airlines always open cans before giving them out, but Muslim "discriminated against."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that I've never been served an unopened can, but clearly this flight attendant was willing to serve unopened cans, if she gave one to another passenger. Maybe that was a mistake, and she just forgot to open it, or maybe it was profiling.

Beer is a different type of beverage than Coke.

But the reasoning was that the unopened can can be used as a weapon...

Exactly. A can of beer and a can of coke weigh the same, are the same size, and could both be used as a weapon. But yet the muslim is the one who had a hassle, and I suspect strongly that there was discrimination here.

For what it's worth, it would get on my nerves, too, to be asked to have the can unopened if that is not the normal procedure, but don't say that one is a weapon and one isn't.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My college roommate was a flight attendant. They open the cans of soda for you in case there is a spray of carbonated soda next to another passenger - not to stop it from being a weapon!

This. Clearly the woman is lying
Also, you cannot return a soda once it is opened.
Alcoholic drinks are always served differently

How does the original quoted post prove your claim the woman is lying!?

All it does is convey inconsistencies between what the FA said and what other FA do.

You're right. The liar sounds is the Flight Attendant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The woman sounds like a huge spoiled princess. I'll give that US airlines have the worst flight attendants. They are mostly rude, uncooperative and surly. But to turn an unpleasant experience into social media drama over discrimination/ victimization. I mean, c'mon... This was CNN's featured story!

If only this woman + all others who spent so much energy on this minor issue would direct their efforts towards speaking up against ISIS and other barbaric radical muslims...I won't hold my breath though.

Ummm. You can hate ISIS and also hate that innocent muslims experience discrimination. Do you really think it has to be one or the other?

[Anonymous]

Each stewardess serves in her own way. She has the entire aeroplane to look after. You are asked what you want. That is it. In a relatively short time she must do the entire row. This is not your waitress or personal servant.

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Anonymous wrote:Each stewardess serves in her own way. She has the entire aeroplane to look after. You are asked what you want. That is it. In a relatively short time she must do the entire row. This is not your waitress or personal servant.

Stewardess and aeroplane?

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Muslima wrote:I am glad Tahera is speaking up. She is an incredible woman who has dedicated her life to the advancement of peace and social justice. This is her latest statement on Fbook:

I am truly dissapointed at the latest statement by United Airlines. Unfortunately United has dismissed my entire narrative and trivialized it to a can of soda. As a Premier frequent flyer at United, I have been served unopened canned beverages many times and I have followed United procedures in all of my travels. It is ridiculing to my integrity to dismiss the discrimatory behavior towards me. I have dedicated my life to peace, infact I was on this United flight to promote social justice activism, just and peaceful conversations between Israelis and Palestinians at Kids4Peace. It is truly disheartening when the discrimination of Americans as myself who are working hard everyday to promote dialogue and understanding is disregarded and trivialized. I have been patiently waiting to hear an acknowledgement of their discrimination vis-a-vis inconsistency in following procedure and then verbally accusing me of using a can of diet soda as a weapon, resulting and encouraging further hateful words by a passenger . I have not received a written sincere apology for the pain and hurt I experienced as a result of the discrimination and hateful words towards me. This is not about a can of soda. I was really hoping that after speaking with me they would have publicly acknowledged their lack of consistency in following procedure, the flight attendant's rude and discrimatory behavior and accusations which led to hateful words, and the unfortunate lack of bystander intervention nor the flight attendants attempt to intervene and prevent further disrespect which created an unsafe space for me. Instead of publishing an apology for the discrimination and clarifying what corrective measures they will take to ensure that they will prevent this from reoccuring, they have dismissed it as a mere can of soda issue. I want to make it very clear to the public that my intentions are NOT to get the flight attendant who behaved very rudely towards me fired. I simply did not expect United Airlines to dismiss the unwarranted and unfortunate rude behavior, discrimination and hateful words but rather acknowledge their accountability and role in the painful experience and share corrective measures within their training to prevent this from happening again regardless of their race, religion, gender, sex, or socioeconomic background

This tells me that she is doing this to 'start a conversation'. It also tells me she's prone to see racism in everything.

[Anonymous]

Only when travelling first class do you get service. I read the article. Another paasenger got annoyed with her and told her to shut up. The airline staff was not that rude to her

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only when travelling first class do you get service. I read the article. Another paasenger got annoyed with her and told her to shut up. The airline staff was not that rude to her

The FA told her that SHE (the passenger) would use it as a weapon. That's quite an offensive accusation!

And the other passenger's swearing and derogatory comments were completely out of line.

[Anonymous]

Murica!
"A man sitting across the aisle turned to her and yelled, "You Muslim, you need to shut the f*** up," she said."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Murica!
"A man sitting across the aisle turned to her and yelled, "You Muslim, you need to shut the f*** up," she said."

"She said that the man told her: "Yes, you know you would use it as a weapon. So shut the f*** up.""

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that I've never been served an unopened can, but clearly this flight attendant was willing to serve unopened cans, if she gave one to another passenger. Maybe that was a mistake, and she just forgot to open it, or maybe it was profiling.

Beer is a different type of beverage than Coke.

But the reasoning was that the unopened can can be used as a weapon...

Exactly. A can of beer and a can of coke weigh the same, are the same size, and could both be used as a weapon. But yet the muslim is the one who had a hassle, and I suspect strongly that there was discrimination here.

For what it's worth, it would get on my nerves, too, to be asked to have the can unopened if that is not the normal procedure, but don't say that one is a weapon and one isn't.

Muslims don't drink right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The woman sounds like a huge spoiled princess. I'll give that US airlines have the worst flight attendants. They are mostly rude, uncooperative and surly. But to turn an unpleasant experience into social media drama over discrimination/ victimization. I mean, c'mon... This was CNN's featured story!

If only this woman + all others who spent so much energy on this minor issue would direct their efforts towards speaking up against ISIS and other barbaric radical muslims...I won't hold my breath though.

Ummm. You can hate ISIS and also hate that innocent muslims experience discrimination. Do you really think it has to be one or the other?

But of course, because remember that ISIS is evil. ISIS members are Muslims. Therefore, all Muslims are evil. Quite logical, don't you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only when travelling first class do you get service. I read the article. Another paasenger got annoyed with her and told her to shut up. The airline staff was not that rude to her

The FA told her that SHE (the passenger) would use it as a weapon. That's quite an offensive accusation!

And the other passenger's swearing and derogatory comments were completely out of line.

It was the FA's discrimination that likely invited the rude comment from the other passenger. If there is a zero tolerance policy for discrimination on an airline and by the FA's, then passengers are less likely to also say such things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Murica!
"A man sitting across the aisle turned to her and yelled, "You Muslim, you need to shut the f*** up," she said."

"She said that the man told her: "Yes, you know you would use it as a weapon. So shut the f*** up.""

Key words: SHE said.

[Anonymous]

Have any of the other passengers on this flight come forward to describe what they saw happening?