Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwr View Post
I hope this is just you trying to be controversial by taking the unpopular position, Louis!
It is the 'cleric' wut dun it. I can't help myself anymore than a bull can help himself charging a red waving cloth.

Two average guys of Middle Eastern heritage - I'd have said this was a silly paranoid-racist thing to do.
Two clerics in dresses with long beards, well, then I'm inclined to say these two might have shown better judgement.



Me I'm a nudist. In fact, I am typing this post NAKED RIGHT NOW.

But when boarding a plane, I shave and take my monthly bath and put on appropriate attire. Other guys like to wear miniskirts with wigs and Lady Gaga make-up. Fine. But don't demand that your own private dresscode is appropriate everywhere, at all times.

Travelling by air in America is a tense affair. One can try to make some effort to your fellow passengers and crew to not to make it more tense than it already is. Certainly directly after the president commemorated 9-11 at ground zero and terror alert is high.

Much better than a show of force, or a provocation, or poorly timed complaints about safety measures, or going out of your way to create a buzz the day before your Islamophobia congress. I still wonder how hard these two tried to be discriminated against. How did they manage to get the plane to turn around long after everybody had boarded already?