YouTube star Adam Saleh's removal from a US flight yesterday is all the rage (literally) on the Muslim/Arab interwebs. Adam claims that "5 or 6 racist passengers" demanded that he get kicked out after he spoke Arabic, and people are up in arms about it.
Adam captures his escorting off the plane on video and it rapidly went viral, getting more than half a million retweets and plenty of mainstream news coverage.
There are questions about how legitimate Adam's claims are and if there might be more to the account given by this well-known prankster.
Still, >Delta Airlines has a history of racial discrimination against Muslims, blacks and Sikhs. And Adam's video might just be the straw that broke the camel's back.
People are keeping the social media managers at Delta Airlines pretty occupied. Here's a snippet: