US Muslim forced off plane cites Islamophobia

[Torete 121]

Your life has been ruined! You deserve millions. How were you able to overcome this horrendous act of cruelty?

Oh the inhumanity of it all!!

[Torete 121]

You don't seem to suffer from PESD(post el al stress disorder) so it couldn't have been that horrible. Nobody forces you to fly El Al - there's plenty of other airlines to choose from. They are a target and have been for a long time. Not sure what they did with you but the last time I flew with them which was many years ago after we landed and I was on my way off the plane someone walked over to me and asked to see my passport, then asked me a few questions and I was set, took two minutes, I have no problem with that.

What I do however have a problem with and actually had nothing to do with el al was every time my wife was flying continental from EWR to TLV they had some really strange security measures there that I have never heard of before. I don't remember all of the specifics though I could ask her but I doubt it would interest anyone here that much, but of the ones I do remember the gate was like split into three sections and you had to go through security in each of them, and if you left the gate(only that one specific gate) you had to go through it all over again. They had dogs there. You had to give them all your bags and take a step back for them to take everything out and apart. They stamp your ticket with a special stamp and if you don't have it on it to show them on the next security check you start all over, and some more strange things I don't remember atm. I've flown quite a bit in my life and never heard of anything like that before but it wasn't a one time thing - happened every time flying continental out of EWR to TLV. I asked my dad who also flies alot for his work and he's never had to go through it before either. To this day we're not sure why that's how it was or maybe still is done there but seemed a little excessive to me.

Personally I haven't flown el al in many years but that has nothing to do with security - I just don't really appreciate them as an airline. One of my favs is actually jet blue - better than alot of much more expensive airlines I've flown. But I've done Delta, United Continental(after the merge) and continental before the merge, AA, Alitalia, Lufthansa and many others. My dad swears by Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines. El Al wouldn't be my first choice that's for sure.

It is! It's funny how one never gets tired of pizza. But we never tend to like doing things traditionally.

Damn, you outted me! Nope, I've never flown El Al.

Think sarcasm.

[OriZ 3,157]

Nah that's not really sarcasm, trust me I know sarcasm...

That's just a really really really bad...umm, sorta, joke, kinda I guess? Whatever ya wanna call it anyway.

[Torete 121]

Well, you can trust me...it's sarcasm.

I guess you're missing my point...a simple one at that: El Al is very proficient at profiling. Perhaps you know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who works at El Al and knows otherwise, but Google can be your friend and it's profiling is well-documented.

Cheers

[OriZ 3,157]

I don't know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody. I just know somebody. Actually a few somebodies.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Profiling doesn't work. Yet oddly enough the FBI has a whole dept devoted to it

[Boiler 43,494]

Profiling does work and inevitably with limited resources you eed to focus them on high risk categories.

[Jacque67 7,328]

I don't know somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody. I just know somebody. Actually a few somebodies.

Off topic, but what on earth is that avatar photo ? Looks kinda obscene.

[OriZ 3,157]

Off topic, but what on earth is that avatar photo ? Looks kinda obscene.

It's me with Maple, a Beluga whale.

[Torete 121]

Profiling doesn't work. Yet oddly enough the FBI has a whole dept devoted to it

Says who?

[GandD 5,966]

Neither my wife nor I eat Turkey. She's done homemade pizza instead for many many years now, before I even knew her. Needless to say I'm good with pizza.

There's something inherently wrong with anyone that isn't good with pizza.

[OriZ 3,157]

There's something inherently wrong with anyone that isn't good with pizza.

I agree although there are those...same with chocolate.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

Says who?

It was sarcasm. Of course it works or the FBI would not have a whole section devoted to it

[OriZ 3,157]

LOL. The subtleties of sarcasm.

[Torete 121]

It was sarcasm. Of course it works or the FBI would not have a whole section devoted to it

Apologies, not always apparent through the written word.