An Iraqi university student in California says he
was escorted off a Southwest Airlines flight for
having a conversation in Arabic.
Southwest Airlines said that Khairuldeen Makhzoomi
was removed from a 9 April flight before it took off.
Mr Makhzoomi said he was talking to his uncle on the
phone about attending a speech by United Nations
Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
A Southwest employee then escorted him off of the
plane.
"I was very excited about the event, so I called my
uncle to tell him about it," Mr Makhzoomi told the
New York Times.

A woman on the plane began staring at him after he used the phrase "inshallah," meaning "god willing," in the conversation, he said. After an Arabic-speaking Southwest employee escorted him off the plane, he said "This is what Islamophobia got this country into."
Mr Makhzoomi, who came to the country as an Iraqi
refugee and studies at the University of California at
Berkeley, was then told he could not get back on the
plane.
"My family and I have been through a lot, and this is
just another one of the experiences I have had,'' he
told the New York Times.
"Human dignity is the most valuable thing in the
world, not money. If they apologised, maybe it would
teach them to treat people equally."
Southwest said in its statement that he was removed
for "potentially threatening comments made aboard
our aircraft" and that it does not tolerate
discrimination.
"We wouldn't remove passengers from flights
without a collaborative decision rooted in established
procedures," the company said. "We regret any less
than positive experience onboard our aircraft."

So speaking Arabic is now as deadly as the ZIka virus. America forgot that one of its key Allies in the globe is Saudi Arabia

It's a wrong thing but I wnt blame dem, cos me self go do same.

Fear north

Prevention is better than cure. Nobody wants to hear stories after some people are already dead.

I hope the Arab was innocent. You never know, especially when they start yelling some words randomly

No ooo, don't blame the paranoid passengers blame ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Boko boys. Who wants to sit in a plane and wait for Insha-allah to turn to Allah-akbar and then boom!