No Muslims on Monarch
In a scene reminiscent of Nazi Germany, 2 Muslim men were forced off a flight from Malaga to Manchester after passengers refused to fly with them due to their "suspicious behaviour" - apparantly they were speaking in Arabic!!
See here for full details
Contact Monarch Airlines who defended their decision to call police to pull the men off the plane even though they had already gone through 2 security checks. I sent the following message to them just now. Put your name and address to show you are serious and forward to all you know.
Dear Sir/Madam
See here for full details
Contact Monarch Airlines who defended their decision to call police to pull the men off the plane even though they had already gone through 2 security checks. I sent the following message to them just now. Put your name and address to show you are serious and forward to all you know.
Dear Sir/Madam
After hearing in shock about how 2 innocent Muslim men were publicly humiliated and embarrassed aboard a Monarch Airlines flight from Malaga to Manchester in a manner befitting Nazi Germany, I am from today officially refusing to board a Monarch Airlines flight. For I too am a Muslim and I too could be a terrorist. If losing Muslim custom means your flights will be safer than so be it. It will also mean you will gain a reputation for Islamophobia and racism.
I will be persuading all within my influence to adopt a similar stance. Your anti-Muslim racism disgusts me.
Yours Sincerely
posted by Abu Abdullah @ 1:09 p.m.
6 comments
6 Comments:
They had the cheapest flights to Spain aswell :|
Came across your blog by pure chance...how odd that we quoted the same hadith and used the same template :) maybe we are twins, heh.
wasalam
tso
I used your post on Muslim Unity.
I hope you don't mind.
Mashallah a very good blog, keep up the good work.
please take a look at my blog and link it up here.
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Assalamualaikum
Apologies for the lack of posting - was slightly tied up.
The Sane One - that is a bit strange and I also refer to Google as Sheykh Google!!
Abu Yahya, nice site, may Allah bless you with a beautiful, pious wife and righteous children dedicated to serving Allah.
Muslim Unity - pleae take whatever you want from the blog, just make dua.
Ahmed, lovely sites - which one do you want me to link up? world of islam?
12 September 2006
Dear sir
Thank you for your recent email regarding the incident involving two passengers on our flight from Malaga to Manchester on 16 August. I have also read many of the press reports myself and I can therefore understand the reason for your concern.
Before commenting specifically on the incident on 16 August, I think that it might be helpful if I reproduced the full text of a statement that we issued to the media:
Monarch’s overriding priority at all times is the safety and security of its passengers and crews and it will take whatever actions are necessary to maintain the highest levels of safety and security. From time to time that may entail the further security checking of individual passengers or indeed whole flights. Any such decision to request further security checks is taken by the Captain after giving full consideration to all the available information and that decision is not taken unless there are genuine concerns.
Whatever the views and opinions of other passengers may be, those views and opinions would not on their own be the reason to request further security checks on other passengers. That decision will be taken by the Captain only if he or she has genuine concerns for the safety and security of the passengers and crew and for no other reason whatsoever. It is Monarch’s policy not to comment upon individual incidents where security is concerned.
Regrettably much of what was reported in some sections of the media concerning the incident on 16 August was either inaccurate or incomplete. The two passengers who were offloaded from the flight were removed because the Captain had genuine and serious concerns for the security of the aircraft and for the safety of all those on board. In fact all passengers were disembarked from the aircraft and a full security search of the cabin, including all cabin baggage, was undertaken. That would not have been undertaken if the intention was simply to remove two passengers because of whom they were.
Certain information had been passed to the cabin crew by a number of the passengers concerning the behaviour of the two passengers in question and, furthermore, the Captain had been made aware of certain other relevant information relating to events in the terminal prior to the boarding of the aircraft. Together, that information was the determining factor in the decision to undertake a full security search of the aircraft as well as to request further security checks on the two passengers in question. Unfortunately, due to crew duty hours, it was not possible for the aircraft to remain on the ground at Malaga whilst those security checks were completed and therefore both passengers were re-booked onto a later flight with us. Had crew duty hours permitted, then those passengers would then have re-joined their original flight.
I hope that this letter reassures you that Monarch’s actions were undertaken solely on the grounds of security and in no circumstances whatsoever do we, or would we, condone or practice unlawful discrimination.
Yours sincerely
D K Summers
Director – Customer Services
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