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Arab-Americans kicked off NWA flight<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Do you think the ignorant assholes on this flight would have changed their mind if they’d known this is exactly the sort of division and “us against them” that folks like Osama bin Laden want?<\/i><\/p>\n

Nah.<\/p>\n

“The men say they feel depressed and very discriminated against.” I can certainly relate the the former of those emotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arab-Americans kicked off NWA flight Do you think the ignorant assholes on this flight would have changed their mind if they’d known this is exactly the sort of division and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1484,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/27\/perhaps_he_shou.html","url_meta":{"origin":540,"position":0},"title":"Perhaps he should have offered to have them call the Attorney General","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Dec-01 11:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A guard of Arab descent from President Bush's security detail, rerouted onto a commercial flight, is kicked off the American Airlines flight because nobody would believe he was in the...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24070,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/26\/the-horrific-crime-of-flying-while-looking-terroristicish.html","url_meta":{"origin":540,"position":1},"title":"The horrific crime of Flying While Looking Terroristicish","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 26-Nov-11 9:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So a pilot, once again, asks for some Arab-looking passengers to be taken off the plane. 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