Delta airlines had a Muslim couple removed from a flight because someone nearby on the flight was uncomfortable with their presence. The flight was leaving from Paris to Cincinnati. The woman was on her phone and the man was supposedly sweating, which made the other passenger have suspicious thoughts. Is there no possible way the woman may have just wanted to pass time until the flight took off by going on her phone? Is there no possible way this man was sweating due to the fact that he could have been hot while sitting on a stuffy airplane? The worst part about these assumptions was that the airline actually removed them from the flight.
Nazia Ali and her husband Faisa were completely humiliated. "We had been in our seats for 45 minutes,” Nazia Ali told the Enquirer. “The ground agent said, ‘Can you step out with me? We’d like to ask you a few questions.’ So I said, ‘Do you want us to get our things?’ And he said, ‘Yes, please grab all of your personal belongings. You’re not going to be on this flight.'”
Why do people still make judgments based on race, ethnicity and gender? It is 2016. Get it together. It does not matter if someone is white, black, brown, blue or even purple. People should be treated equally and under no circumstances should any assumptions be made about someone based on their appearance.
We live in such a sad world and it honestly disgusts me. All of the terrible things happening around the world are awful and there is no way of denying that. However, all walks of life do bad things. Every race, ethnicity, gender, or any other group have good and bad people. That is just the way it is and that is the way it has always been.
This sort of discrimination is happening to more than just Muslims. Blacks, hispanics, gay, transgender, women and many other minorities face this every single day. Why can we not live in a world where everyone can be equal to one another? Why do certain people feel that they are superior to someone else because of where they come from or how they look?
One can only hope that one day we live in a world where people do not see color or appearance based assumptions. It is hard to see the good in people at this point in time, but before you make inappropriate presumptions think about how you would feel if someone did the same to you just because you do not look like them.
