Muslim family kicked off plane in London after passenger complains

I'm assuming those other factors would probably be their brown skin colour, style of clothing, and perhaps the use of Arabic in spoken conversation - all characteristics racialised to fit the modern image of terrorists.

The simpleton who reported the family would probably have a heart attack if the above characteristics were combined with a random use of "Allah" in speech.

'if one man dies, the whole of humanity dies as well'.

Yes, because fearing the religion followed by 1 billion people, of which less than 1% have violent tendencies really is rational.... not!

1% of a billion is 10 million.

The biggest army in the world, the People's Liberation Army (China), has 2.3 million personnel.

And as for the rest of your points, I think the guy should have acted differently. Personally, I come from a Muslim family. Whenever we are about to travel via car my mum says a Muslim prayer, "bismillah...". However, my Mum has enough personal awareness to know that on public transport this is wrong and she regulates herself. With everything going on in the news with ISIS, she knows people are tense and scared.

Passenger should be fined for time wasting

The Nazi analogy is a little simplistic, but the fundamental principle still applies.

No. It absolutely does not. The situation of Jews in 1930s Germany and Muslims in 21st C UK are in no way comparable.

unfortunate consequence of UK being on heightend terror alert in relation to islamist extremism.
please follow all instructions on planes to turn off mobile or electronic devices

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/23/muslim-siblings-hauled-of-easyjet-flight-after-claims-they-were/

They were kicked off the plane at Stansted airport because a passenger thought that they were writing a text message in Arabic, which later turned out to be false.

They were taken off and questioned because someone reported that they were looking at illegal isis material on their phone. The police questioned them and then allowed them back on the plane.

If someone had reported a passenger was looking at illegal child porn on their phone you would expect the exact same response.

Seems like an entirely reasonable reaction by the airline and police.*

The article also says it was a digital copy of the Koran. Unless it also had pictures of the ISIS flag and/or photos of guys waving AK-47s, Vividly clear is correct.

It wasn't ISIS propaganda, it was the Qur'an online. Not everything written in Arabic translates to Islamic terror

But do we all agree the passenger was a bit of a bimbo?

"Arabic writing = ISIS propaganda"

Yes I'm aware. But I would like to know how you've arrived at the statements you've made (a Muslim would likely contend). Did you take into consideration context and clarification by a well reputed tafsir or a Muslim scholar on the relevance of such statements as "behead non-believers" in light of the 21st century?

Islamaphobia is on the rise, people becoming more ignorant and right wing, prejudice and profiling increasing, anti-Muslim programs e.g. Prevent are being introduced...

Won't be long until Muslims will be forced to wear bright yellow cresent moons stitched into their clothes by the looks of it...

Lol.

You know TSR has got a seriously extreme anti-Islam problem when even the top rated Daily Mail comments are supportive of the Muslim trio interrogated because of a false allegation. Whilst this thread is generally supportive of the passenger who fabricated the allegation

Someone mentioned earlier that a fear of Islam is rational.

Yes, because fearing the religion followed by 1 billion people, of which less than 1% have violent tendencies really is rational.... not!

Let's face it, if we go by those statistics, we should be fearful about every white man because you never know, he could be a rapist. Especially women, as it was revealed not so long ago that quite a large proportion of women have faced sexual harassment in the workplace of all places

This isn't the first incident of this nature, and nor do I think it will be the last. People enjoy living in fear of the most unlikely events whilst driving their cars/smoking cigarettes/drinking alcohol <--- all of which are statistically more likely to kill you. But yeh, the media always talks about Islamist terrorism. So that must be the most likely way we're all going to die

/sarcasm

"They were taken off and questioned because someone reported that they were looking at illegal isis material on their phone"

A few questions how did the person know it was isis material? Did the person who reported it speak arabic ? If not how did they make that assumption , was it because the text was not in english or because the people reading it were brown ? And lastly lets make the assumption these people understood arabic (they didnt ) is it now illegal to read arabic in public?

realistically its a lot less than 1%