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Thanks Tariq! “A Spanish university professor with a long beard and dark complexion said Thursday he was briefly forced off an airliner during a layover on the Spanish island of Mallorca by passengers who feared he was an Islamic terrorist…”
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“Although Vikram Seth has been out of the closet as bisexual for some time now, I had not been aware of his sexual orientation until he gave a lengthy interview to Outlook India on the subject…related to his public support for…the movement for the dec
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“Dogged by allegations of racial insensitivity, Sen. George Allen on Thursday introduced a bill to help black farmers. Allen, R-Va., has spent weeks rebutting accusations that he used racist language and liked Confederate symbols…”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of 
merq wrote:
I love how that first story seems to suggest that Islamic faith is irrefutable proof of terrorist intent.
Posted 30 Sep 2006 at 3:24 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Merq:
Wonder if a bearded pale blond guy would have gotten the same treatment (the article mentions the man’s skin and hair color - don’t know if that was to excuse the passengers/staff)? The appalling part for me was not even the paranoia, but the passengers who IMPERSONATED authorities - dude, someone should tell folks to pull a Flight 93 when you KNOW something’s wrong. The other thing that bothered me is that there wasn’t enough follow-through. The passengers responsible should have been banned from that flight or from the airline itself - wanna-be vigilantes can interfere with existing security measures and are therefore a risk to the airplane. Imagine their reaction if the pilot was rocking a beard?
Posted 01 Oct 2006 at 4:58 am ¶