Anonymous wrote:United Airlines said the Flight Attendant will not longer be working in any public service capacity and they apologized to this passenger. Apparently everything the Muslim passenger said was verified and the Flight Attendant was found to be in the wrong.

Good.

Anonymous wrote:United Airlines said the Flight Attendant will not longer be working in any public service capacity and they apologized to this passenger. Apparently everything the Muslim passenger said was verified and the Flight Attendant was found to be in the wrong.

Good.

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/republic-airways-says-there-no-open-can-rule-after-muslim-denied-soda


"The United Airlines flight, from Chicago to Washington, D.C., was operated by Shuttle America, which is owned by Republic Airways Holdings, which said in a statement Monday that the company doesn’t enforce rules about serving unopened cans.

“There is no policy difference in serving alcoholic or non-alcoholic canned beverages to passengers. There is no differentiation between opened and unopened beverages, and there is no policy suggesting what may or may not be done with a container,” the Republic Airways statement read."

I'm interested to hear how discrimination apologists will spin this. Clearly the "rule" was made up for this woman, and there was no intervention when the other passenger was cursing her out and being belligerent. I'm sure you would've felt very safe had you been in the same situation.

Clearly this practice was not made up for this woman since so many of us have had the same experience: flight attendants usually do not hand unopened cans to passengers. I would prefer to be given an unopened can, too, but I know I'm not going to get an unopened can. I accept that.

No one's disputing the fact that, if another passenger was belligerent, his behavior was completely unacceptable.

She has clearly stated many times that her issue was not the soda but the reasoning behind it. She was told that she could use the unopened can as a weapon, but that clearly didn't apply to the guy next to her. I wouldn't think this was a big deal either if the flight attendant didn't make that comment and say it was company policy. There is no company policy.

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

I asked this earlier, but it got buried at the bottom of a page. Have reporters interviewed any of the other passengers on the flight?
I'd be interested to see what bystanders have to say about the incident.

If nobody spoke up then, what makes you think they will speak up now?

Anonymous wrote:

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

I asked this earlier, but it got buried at the bottom of a page. Have reporters interviewed any of the other passengers on the flight?
I'd be interested to see what bystanders have to say about the incident.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/republic-airways-says-there-no-open-can-rule-after-muslim-denied-soda


"The United Airlines flight, from Chicago to Washington, D.C., was operated by Shuttle America, which is owned by Republic Airways Holdings, which said in a statement Monday that the company doesn’t enforce rules about serving unopened cans.

“There is no policy difference in serving alcoholic or non-alcoholic canned beverages to passengers. There is no differentiation between opened and unopened beverages, and there is no policy suggesting what may or may not be done with a container,” the Republic Airways statement read."

I'm interested to hear how discrimination apologists will spin this. Clearly the "rule" was made up for this woman, and there was no intervention when the other passenger was cursing her out and being belligerent. I'm sure you would've felt very safe had you been in the same situation.

Clearly this practice was not made up for this woman since so many of us have had the same experience: flight attendants usually do not hand unopened cans to passengers. I would prefer to be given an unopened can, too, but I know I'm not going to get an unopened can. I accept that.

No one's disputing the fact that, if another passenger was belligerent, his behavior was completely unacceptable.

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

Anonymous wrote:http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/republic-airways-says-there-no-open-can-rule-after-muslim-denied-soda


"The United Airlines flight, from Chicago to Washington, D.C., was operated by Shuttle America, which is owned by Republic Airways Holdings, which said in a statement Monday that the company doesn’t enforce rules about serving unopened cans.

“There is no policy difference in serving alcoholic or non-alcoholic canned beverages to passengers. There is no differentiation between opened and unopened beverages, and there is no policy suggesting what may or may not be done with a container,” the Republic Airways statement read."

I'm interested to hear how discrimination apologists will spin this. Clearly the "rule" was made up for this woman, and there was no intervention when the other passenger was cursing her out and being belligerent. I'm sure you would've felt very safe had you been in the same situation.

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

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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.

so this is a case of passengers fighting and a flight attendant did not care. Perhaps she had other worries

jsteele wrote:

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jsteele wrote:

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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?

Since he survived it, definitely. There is an entire page dedicated to the topic:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blpretzeljokes.htm

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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.

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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?