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Old 04-19-2016, 02:05 PM   #25
detbuch
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Originally Posted by spence View Post
The NYT who first reported the story lays it out in clear detail.

Student was having a pleasant conversation in Arabic with his uncle back in Iraq. A woman ahead of him was certain she had identified one of Jim's bad chocolates and notified the flight attendant.

Southwest scrambled to find someone who spoke Arabic to talk him off the plane who apparently was unintelligible and the student asked him to speak English. The then said poor Arabic speaker cautioned him about using Arabic on the aircraft for reasons just like this.

You guys are holding out on a presumption of guilt, oh, he must have done something right, he's a Muslim?

<<<<<BREAKING NEWS>>>>>

A video of the event was just posted to youtube.

That was funny. I wasn't holding out and I didn't have any presumption. But after your speaking jive video, I be frontin fo a big laugh.
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