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

[Anonymous]

How do you use soda can as a weapon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"For hygienic reasons, she asked for an unopened can of soda, she said. The flight attendant told her that she could not give her one but then handed an unopened can of beer to a man seated nearby. Ahmad questioned the flight attendant.

"We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a weapon on the plane," she recalled the flight attendant telling her."


http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/30/us/united-flight-muslim-chaplain/index.html

I can't recall a flight (and I've been flying a lot, for years) where cans weren't opened first before being handed to a passenger. I feel someone should have come back at the fellow passenger who made rude comments, but other than that there is nothing outrageous about this incident.

If the flight attendant treated her the same as the white guy who got the beer, it would not be discrmination. The flight attendant did not, however. She felt perfectly comfortable handing a white guy an unopened can, but not the Muslim woman. Then the asshole passengers chimed in (which was pretty outrageous)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Her language is very strong. Based on reports about what occurred, it seems disproportionate.

It sounds like a passenger made an outrageous comment - that's the passenger's issue, not the airline's issue.

As for the can - I think it's possible she may have been unaware of the protocol relating to not opening them until after she started the "conversation," so to speak. By then, she may have felt unable to back down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you use soda can as a weapon?

Shake it up, spray it in someone's face, then overpower them or stab them when they can't see to fight back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you use soda can as a weapon?

Shake it up, spray it in someone's face, then overpower them or stab them when they can't see to fight back.

I mean...do you fashion a knife out of the can while your opponent is blinded by the soda in their eyes? I'm trying to figure out the logistics of this.

[Anonymous]

I think white people and non-minorities feel like she is blowing it out of proportion because they don't realize how much crap minorities usually already have let go. You feel like we cry foul at the first time something doesn't go our way, but that is rarely the case. Most of the time, we ignore all the bullshit that ignorant assholes say or do, but sometimes it is too much to bear and we complain. If you knew the kind of comments we get regularly (and ignore) you would understand that everyone has a limit.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you use soda can as a weapon?

Shake it up, spray it in someone's face, then overpower them or stab them when they can't see to fight back.

If you think that is bad, you should see what you can do with pretzels. One was used to knock George Bush unconscious once.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think white people and non-minorities feel like she is blowing it out of proportion because they don't realize how much crap minorities usually already have let go. You feel like we cry foul at the first time something doesn't go our way, but that is rarely the case. Most of the time, we ignore all the bullshit that ignorant assholes say or do, but sometimes it is too much to bear and we complain. If you knew the kind of comments we get regularly (and ignore) you would understand that everyone has a limit.

So true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think white people and non-minorities feel like she is blowing it out of proportion because they don't realize how much crap minorities usually already have let go. You feel like we cry foul at the first time something doesn't go our way, but that is rarely the case. Most of the time, we ignore all the bullshit that ignorant assholes say or do, but sometimes it is too much to bear and we complain. If you knew the kind of comments we get regularly (and ignore) you would understand that everyone has a limit.

So true.

Not to mention the constant ethnic jokes we're expected to find funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think white people and non-minorities feel like she is blowing it out of proportion because they don't realize how much crap minorities usually already have let go. You feel like we cry foul at the first time something doesn't go our way, but that is rarely the case. Most of the time, we ignore all the bullshit that ignorant assholes say or do, but sometimes it is too much to bear and we complain. If you knew the kind of comments we get regularly (and ignore) you would understand that everyone has a limit.

So true.

Not to mention the constant ethnic jokes we're expected to find funny.

Lol yea that too :-/ and it's literally the same joke we've been hearing for the last 15 years..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think white people and non-minorities feel like she is blowing it out of proportion because they don't realize how much crap minorities usually already have let go. You feel like we cry foul at the first time something doesn't go our way, but that is rarely the case. Most of the time, we ignore all the bullshit that ignorant assholes say or do, but sometimes it is too much to bear and we complain. If you knew the kind of comments we get regularly (and ignore) you would understand that everyone has a limit.

So true.

Not to mention the constant ethnic jokes we're expected to find funny.

Lol yea that too :-/ and it's literally the same joke we've been hearing for the last 15 years..

You mean the one about the Irishman in the bar?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you use soda can as a weapon?

Shake it up, spray it in someone's face, then overpower them or stab them when they can't see to fight back.

If you think that is bad, you should see what you can do with pretzels. One was used to knock George Bush unconscious once.

Nearly choking to death is funny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you use soda can as a weapon?

Shake it up, spray it in someone's face, then overpower them or stab them when they can't see to fight back.

If you think that is bad, you should see what you can do with pretzels. One was used to knock George Bush unconscious once.

Nearly choking to death is funny?

Nobody said it was funny. Calm down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you use soda can as a weapon?

Shake it up, spray it in someone's face, then overpower them or stab them when they can't see to fight back.

If you think that is bad, you should see what you can do with pretzels. One was used to knock George Bush unconscious once.

Nearly choking to death is funny?

Nobody said it was funny. Calm down.

Jeff made a joke about it. I assume he was going for somber?

[Anonymous]

It's against her religion to be served a drink from an opened can?