US News Muslim Woman Denied Soda Can for Fear She Could Use It as a Weapon

The incident happened on a United Airlines flight.

Tahera Ahmad, a Muslim woman employed as Director of Interfaith Engagement / Associate Chaplain at Northwestern University in Chicago, US, claims that last week she was denied an unopened can of soda while on a United Airlines flight on the grounds that she could use it as a weapon.

In a Facebook post, the woman accuses United Airlines of blatant discrimination as she insists that she alone was told unopened beverage cans posed a threat and so could not be offered to passengers.

A man sitting next to her, however, was brought an unopened can of beer. When Tahera Ahmad asked how come she couldn't get an unopened can of soda, the flight attended allegedly served her the explanation about how they couldn't give people anything that might be used as a weapon.

“She said, ‘We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a WEAPON on the plane.’ So I told her that she was clearly discriminating against me because she gave the man next to me an unopened can of beer.

“She looked at his can, quickly grabbed it and opened it and said, ‘It's so you don't use it as a weapon,’” Tahera Ahmad wrote in her Facebook post accusing Chicago-based United Airlines of discrimination.

As for the other passengers' take on the entire affair, the Muslim woman says that the majority remained seated and pretended not to notice what was happening. One man did turn to her, but it was only to tell her to quit whining, drink whatever the airline had given her and shut up.

Blatant prejudice is blatant. Clearly that man should have used his can of beer as a weapon, and I am disappointed his prejudices for the other passengers caused him to not do so. As this women obviously knew how to do. The flight attendant just doesn't know how to give good reason for war.

Great job flight attendant, keep up the great work.

They should have gagged her too, might be she casts a spell. Dirty muslims.

I'm glad someone had the candor to tell her to quit whining.

She should blame her people and their archaic ways for discrimination.

ertaboy356b said:

She should blame her people and their archaic ways for discrimination.

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Exactly, that's the same thing I always tell to my niggers. Don't blame me that you're a nigger slave, it's your because of your parents! Kinda obvious you might think, but then again, it's just niggers.

Or recently we had a new guy moving into the block. Seemed like a nice guy at first, too - very polite and all.

But then he came to last summer's street festival in shirt with some video game reference on it, and I immediately told my underage daughter to go home. When she asked me why, I told her it's because he might rape her. Then he said he'd never do such a thing. I'm glad another neighbor came by and told him to quit whining: "you video gamer, you need to shut the F*** up". When the gamer boy replied "WHAT?", my neighbor had the candor to say "Yes you know you would RAPE her, so shut the F*** up". I'm glad that there's still people saying what everyone is afraid to say, and call the things by their names! None of this politically correct nonsense.

BTW, there are two versions of the story circulating. One where the incident in question was an unopened can of the white guy next to her, which could have been a simple mistake. Sure there would have been better ways to handle it, like opening the can in front of her. Then when she saw an act of discrimination in it (which it didn't have to be), she started making a fuzz and the other passenger told her to quit whining about it since there was nothing there.

In the second story, for example published by the guardian, has the guy shutting her up accuse her of wanting to use it as a weapon since she's a muslim. I guess this is what's really sparking the outrage, and has been nonchalantly dropped in the above version of the story.

jonas said:

Exactly, that's the same thing I always tell to my niggers. Don't blame me that you're a nigger slave, it's your because of your parents! Kinda obvious you might think, but then again, it's just niggers.

Or recently we had a new guy moving into the block. Seemed like a nice guy at first, too - very polite and all.

But then he came to last summer's street festival in shirt with some video game reference on it, and I immediately told my underage daughter to go home. When she asked me why, I told her it's because he might rape her. Then he said he'd never do such a thing. I'm glad another neighbor came by and told him to quit whining: "you video gamer, you need to shut the F*** up". When the gamer boy replied "WHAT?", my neighbor had the candor to say "Yes you know you would RAPE her, so shut the F*** up". I'm glad that there's still people saying what everyone is afraid to say, and call the things by their names! None of this politically correct nonsense.

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^Well done. That was fun. Yeah.

A huge misunderstanding by her.