Saturday, July 28, 2007

Muslims on a plane!

From The Daily Mail:

Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next to male passengers they didn't know.

The dispute - in which the three princesses from the ultra-conservative Qatar royal family demanded segregated seating - left the London-bound plane delayed on a baking Italian runway for nearly three hours.

Furious passengers whistled and clapped as the row intensified before the captain eventually ordered the women to be escorted off the plane.

The princesses, wearing traditional Arab dress, were returning from a day's shopping in Milan. They arrived at the city's Linate airport and boarded Heathrow-bound flight BA 563, which was due to take off at 4pm on Thursday.

The women, all relatives of the oil-rich emir of Qatar, Bader Bin Khalifa Al Thani, were booked into business class in a party of eight which included the emir and an entourage of cooks, servants and other staff.

After passengers had fastened their seat-belts and the plane had taxied on to the runway, two male passengers in the entourage got up to protest about where the women were sitting.

So it wasn't actually the women who had the problem. It was the men who under Islamic law own them and are their absolute masters who had a problem.

The whole sorry crew was quite properly kicked off the plane and since this didn't happen in the United States there will probably not be a lawsuit.

It is about high damn time the entire world started taking a zero-tolerance attitude toward this Muslim bulls**t.