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For those who affirm that Islamophobia is not a crime o has not legitimacy as a concept, we reproduce that example published by The Independent <\/a>in which we see a flagrant case of discrimination against a Muslim due to its name or appearance.<\/p>\n

\"Muhammad-Ahmed-Redwan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A Muslim man was removed from an American Airlines flight after a flight attendant publicly announced his name, seat number and said she would be \u201cwatching\u201d him.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mohamed Ahmed Radwan had boarded a plane in Charlotte, North Carolina and the flight attendant went to the tannoy and said: \u201cMohamed Ahmed, Seat 25-A: I will be watching you.\u201d<\/p>\n

The employee made no other announcements about any other passenger. Mr Radwan asked the employee why she had made the announcements. She reportedly responded that he was being \u201ctoo sensitive\u201d. The passenger then reported the incident to two other American Airlines employees.<\/p>\n

He was told he must leave the plane as he had made the first air stewardess \u201cuncomfortable\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a complaint<\/a> about the incident, which happened in December last year, to the Department of Transportation\u00a0after failing to resolve the matter directly with the airline.<\/p>\n

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CAIR\u2019s staff lawyer, Maha Sayed, wrote in the complaint<\/a>\u00a0that Mr Radwan was \u201csingled out\u201d and \u201cunjustifiably\u201d removed from the plane due to racial discrimination. \u201cGiven the continuing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric and hate crimes occurring throughout the United States, this type of reckless and harmful conduct should not be tolerated by our nation’s airlines, which are legally charged with safely carrying all individuals who are rightfully present in an equal and nondiscriminatory manner, without regard to their religious affiliation or ethnicity,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis incident is particularly troubling given the recent wave of incidents in which airline personnel have arbitrarily removed passengers of Muslim and\/or Middle Eastern background without an objectively reasonable cause or explanation,\u201d Ms\u00a0Sayed added.<\/p>\n

\"Avion\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An American Airlines spokeswoman said in a statement: \u201cAmerican [Airlines] was contacted by CAIR earlier this year. We thoroughly reviewed these allegations and concluded that no discrimination occurred. We serve customers of all backgrounds and faiths and do not tolerate discrimination of any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

In April, a Muslim woman was removed from a Southwest Airlines plane at a Chicago airport after she had asked to switch seats as she was told she had made the flight attendant \u201cuncomfortable\u201d. A Muslim family of five were also escorted off a United Airlines flight in March for \u201chow they looked\u201d. They said they had asked staff if there were any safety harnesses for their three children. The pilot told them they had to leave as it was \u201ca safety issue\u201d.<\/p>\n

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For those who affirm that Islamophobia is not a crime o has not legitimacy as a concept, we reproduce that example published by The Independent in which we see a flagrant case of discrimination against a Muslim due to its name or appearance. A Muslim man was removed from an American Airlines flight after a flight attendant publicly announced his name, seat number and said she would be \u201cwatching\u201d him. Mohamed Ahmed Radwan had boarded a plane in Charlotte, North Carolina and the flight attendant went to the tannoy and said: \u201cMohamed Ahmed, Seat 25-A: I will be watching you.\u201d The employee made no other announcements about any other passenger. Mr Radwan asked the employee why she had made the announcements. She reportedly responded that he was being \u201ctoo sensitive\u201d. The passenger then reported the incident to two other American Airlines employees. He was told he must leave the plane as he had made the first air stewardess \u201cuncomfortable\u201d. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has filed a complaint about the incident, which happened in December last year, to the Department of Transportation\u00a0after failing to resolve the matter directly with the airline. Racial discrimination CAIR\u2019s staff lawyer, Maha Sayed, wrote in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[426,425],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share-en","tag-american-airlines","tag-racial-discrimination"],"yoast_head":"\n"Mohamed Radwan, i'll be watching you" - Twist Islamophobia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/en\/2016\/07\/27\/mohamed-radwan-ill-be-watching-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Mohamed Radwan, i'll be watching you" - Twist Islamophobia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For those who affirm that Islamophobia is not a crime o has not legitimacy as a concept, we reproduce that example published by The Independent in which we see a flagrant case of discrimination against a Muslim due to its name or appearance. 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