Well, he got booted off pretty quickly. Looks like Canada is all over that TWAT thing.
In good Canadian fashion, they are completely equal-opportunity and utterly non-discriminatory about it.
Everyone freaks them out.
Jewish man removed from airplane for praying
Tuesday, September 5, 2006 | 11:12 PM ET
CBC NewsSome fellow passengers are questioning why an
Orthodox Jewish man was removed from an Air Canada Jazz flight in Montreal last week for praying.
The man was a passenger on a Sept. 1 flight from Montreal to New York City when the incident happened.
The airplane was heading toward the runway at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport when eyewitnesses said the Orthodox man began to pray.
“He was clearly a Hasidic Jew,” said Yves Faguy, a passenger seated nearby. “He had some sort of cover over his head. He was reading from a book.
“He wasn’t exactly praying out loud but he was lurching back and forth,” Faguy added.
The action didn’t seem to bother anyone, Faguy said, but a flight attendant approached the man and told him his praying was making other passengers nervous.
“The attendant actually recognized out loud that he wasn’t a Muslim and that she was sorry for the situation but they had to ask him to leave,” Faguy said.
The man, who spoke neither English nor French, was escorted off the airplane.
Air Canada Jazz termed the situation “delicate,” but says it received more than one complaint about the man’s behaviour.
The crew had to act in the interest of the majority of passengers, said Jazz spokeswoman Manon Stewart.
“The passenger did not speak English or French, so we really had no choice but to return to the gate to secure a translator,” she said.
The airline is not saying if the man was told he was not allowed to pray, but a spokesperson said the man was back on board the next flight to New York.
Jewish leaders in Montreal criticized the move as insensitive, saying the flight attendants should have explained to the other passengers that the man was simply praying and doing no harm.
Hasidic Rabbi Ronny Fine said he often prays on airplanes, but typically only gets curious stares.
“If it’s something that you’re praying in your own seat and not taking over the whole plane, I don’t think it should be a problem,” said Fine.
The Jewish group B’nai Brith Canada has offered to help give Air Canada crews sensitivity training.
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What? For davening now you get schlepped off the aircaraft? Oy vey!
I see a movie here: “Throw Schmecky from the plane”–after all, we all know who controls Hollywood, right?
–That’s right: Mel Gibson.
The interesting statement was that:
“The attendant actually recognized out loud that he wasn’t a Muslim and that she was sorry for the situation but they had to ask him to leave,” Faguy said.
Does this mean that had he been a Muslim, this would have been acceptable treatment?
Although I have to admit, if someone next to me was rockin’ and rollin’ and mumblin’ in his seat during takeoff I’d want someone off that plane.
Possibly me.
Peter Newman has a great story about some Canadian ambassador and his wife who were on a flight over the Atlantic; the Archbishop happened to be on the same flight. At a certain point they hit heavy turbulence, the kind that even worries the flight crew. The Archbishop began to pray.
The Ambassador’s wife wanted to go over and ask him to pray for them, too, but her husband grabbed her hand and pushed her back into her seat. “Listen dear, don’t interrupt him. What’s good for the Archbishop is good for us.”
A priest, a bishop, and an archbishop were tried for counter-revolutionary activity and sentenced to be shot.
When the warder came around he said:
“Alright boys, d’you have any last wishes?”
“Yes!” the archbishop said “I’ll have a seafood salad for starters, rare angus steak, pacific blue lobster, and creme courgettes au feu, with buttered peas, artichoke hearts, and herbed roast potatoes, followed by a hot fudge ice cream sundae and trifle. And could you please have a Havana cigar available with a vintage Napoleon brandy for afterwards?”
The bishop sneered in disgust.
“Rather than immerse myself in the sin of gluttony,” he said with thinly-veiled contempt “I request that I be allowed to preach a sermon to the firing squad on the theme of being prepared to meet one’s Maker, for we know not what hour that meeting may come!”
“Very well,” said the warder “And you?” he asked the priest.
“If it’s alright with you,” the priest replied “Can I be shot before the bishop starts his sermon?”
Amen.