Jewish man removed from airplane for praying

[desert_fox 32]

If any good can come out of situations like this, it will to allow normally disparate groups to come together to fight for a common goal, and to create a positive impact.

Which reminds me of my senior year of college when the traveling fundies came to town, set up in the campus mall area and started haranging the student populus. An Armenian Orthodox classmate and I would team up and beat them down with superior biblical knowledge and history. It was fun

We are talking about an airplane here...not your college campus.

People need to feel safe on an airplane.

[UmmSqueakster 54]

If any good can come out of situations like this, it will to allow normally disparate groups to come together to fight for a common goal, and to create a positive impact.

Which reminds me of my senior year of college when the traveling fundies came to town, set up in the campus mall area and started haranging the student populus. An Armenian Orthodox classmate and I would team up and beat them down with superior biblical knowledge and history. It was fun

We are talking about an airplane here...not your college campus.

People need to feel safe on an airplane.

I'm sorry, your face scares me. I guess you'll have to take the bus from now on. I couldn't feel safe on an airplane with you there.

[Ban Hammer 14,569]

ah the irony of it all

[Veiled Princess 1]

People need to feel safe on an airplane.

I'm sorry but YOU have effectively stripped me of any feeling of safety on any aircraft that you may be on with me.

My God is my only comforter and if I am not allowed to pray to Him for comfort because prayer scares you then I will not feel at ease... what you really meant was that YOU need to feel safe on an airplane.

Go blow smoke up someone elses butt...

Personally I am not at all surprised by your militaristic (sp?) response.

[*Robert* 2]

sucks to be him!!!

how bad can it get???

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I sense there may be an opening in here somewhere for an airline with a religious bent...

[yogib37 3]

Keep your praying at home or in your church, temple, synagoge, mosque, or wherever, or keep them to yourself. When Im on an airplane, I dont want to see anyone with a cross, star, bible, etc., carrying on in some foreign language praying to god, allah, jehovah, budda...no one!

Planes are to fly from point A to point B safely....we dont need religious fanatics praying or praising their deity, whoever that may be.

People get scared on planes. Planes are not public schools, courts, or anywhere else religion should rightly be kept out of.

Some Muslims and others have required times to pray. If the man wasn't bothering anyone (and I don't mean bothering in the sense that their own paranoid small-minded prejudice bothered them) then there is no reason he should have been stopped from praying.

It was his right.

Like hell he does....sit there and keep quiet......scared???...dont fly...walk, drive, take a train, ride a mule, hop on a boat....but dont sit next to me on a plane ranting in some strange language. Id be the first to jump on him.

and you will be the first to get your A## toss off the plane and into the slamer.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Keep your praying at home or in your church, temple, synagoge, mosque, or wherever, or keep them to yourself.

I agree once again with the fox. Damn, that's twice in a quarter. Am I getting old or what?

[Kajikit 65]

chopfucks!

[iceyspots 0]

chopfucks!

ill second that!

[samir_shannon 0]

the man had a right to pray.. simple as that.

[chri'stina 190]

I have prayed when on planes because at times they have made me nervous. But it wasn't out loud. I may have closed my eyes at times. People have a right to pray wherever they are. How they pray may need to change according to their circumstance-like being squished next to others on a crowded plane. When very scared, someone religious will have an automatic tendency to pray. Even some non-religious people start praying when scared. You know the old saying "there are no atheists in fox holes"?

If I was just nervous on a plane that was flying normal, I still would consider how I acted in my seat but would not refrain from actually praying(which would probably be silently tho or in whispers).

If a plane was crashing, you better believe I'd be praying loudly and wouldn't care who likes it or not.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It's good to know that people are anti-religious bigots ...

Careful with the labels there. I don't typically sacrifice a goat in front of everyone to satisfy my gods everytime I board a plane. Not because I think all the other folks taking the same trip are bigots but because I tend to have the decency to respect their right not to be part of my rituals. Hypothetically speaking, since I am not actually sacrificing goats to any gods.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

You know the old saying "there are no atheists in fox holes"?

Hypothetically speaking, since I am not actually sacrificing goats to any gods.

So who are you sacrificing them for?

[sarah and hicham 3]

Sometimes when I fly and I fall asleep sitting up my mouth opens and my head bobs all over the place pretty violently. I think sleeping on a plane is more of a threat to others than someone praying.