Peacehouse's video about people who 'fly while Muslim" has garnered over one million views on Facebook in just 24 hours. It parodies mostly real-life stories of Muslims getting kicked off planes.
The video highlights the absurdity of those situations and how silly (really there's no other word for it) the reasons for the removal of Muslims from planes can be.
You can't "inshallah" and fly
Iraqi Muslim Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, was escorted off a flight earlier this year after a phone conversation he was having with his uncle in Baghdad prior to departure.
He said the most commonly used Arabic word "Inshallah" and was kicked off the flight after a woman thought he had said the word “shahid,” meaning martyr, which is associated with jihad.
An Arabic-speaking Southwest Airlines employee then asked Makhzoomi, “Why were you speaking Arabic in the plane?” as if there is a law that requires every passenger to speak in English exclusively.
Muzlim doing math!!!
Ivy League economist Guido Menzio was escorted off an American Airlines flight for solving math (YES, math) problems on a notepad. the passenger seated next to him thought was a secret terrorist code in Arabic script.
The passenger called one of the flight crew members as she passes her a note. Menzio was then escorted off the plane and asked a few questions
"They ask me about my neighbor,” he wrote, according to The Guardian.
"I tell them I noticed nothing strange. They tell me she thought I was a terrorist because I was writing strange things on a pad of paper. I laugh. I bring them back to the plane. I showed them my math."
Muslims who sweat
A couple was just traveling in celebration of their tenth anniversary when Delta decided to escort them off the plane because they left a crew member "feeling uneasy."
Faisal and Nazia Ali were just sitting in their seats. Nazia wears a headscarf. Faisal was apparently sweating.
So, a crew member felt uneasy and got the couple escorted off the plane.
"Can you step out with me? We’d like to ask you a few questions," a ground agent asked Ali, according to The Washington Post.
"Do you want us to get our things?" Ali asked. "Yes, please grab all of your personal belongings. You’re not going to be on this flight."