Starting to see a pattern.
Via Daily Mail:
A Muslim woman was allegedly kicked off a flight because the attendant ‘did not feel comfortable’ that the traveller switched seats with a fellow passenger.
Hakima Abdulle from Maryland was travelling alone from Chicago to Seattle on a Southwest Airlines flight on Wednesday when she was asked to leave the plane by an unnamed stewardess.
Her furious husband, Abukar Fadaw, is now calling for an investigation into the incident, which he believes is religiously motivated.
Speaking at a press conference hosted at Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Mr Fadaw said: ‘She was humiliated because of her religion and the way she dressed.’
Ms Abdulle, who’s of Somalian descent, was wearing a hijab, a traditional Islamic headscarf, at the time.
She was on her way to help her niece, who’s about to give birth, and had reportedly asked a fellow passenger if she could swap for an aisle seat according to the Baltimore Sun.
However, while her neighbour was happy to make the swap, a flight attendant allegedly intervened.
According to Mr Fadaw, who was on the phone to his wife at the time of the incident, the airline ignored him when he asked them why his wife was removed from the flight.
Further, Mr Fadaw said that his wife, who does not speak English, had been reduced to tears and ‘suffered extreme distress and anxiety as a result of this experience.’