A muslim woman was denied an unopened can of Diet Coke on a United Airlines flight because the crew claimed that she could use it was a weapon. Meanwhile the same flight attendant gave the passenger next to her an unopened can of Budweiser. When she asked the passengers around her if they thought it was discrimination, one man yelled racial epithets at her. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
“United Airlines has come under fire after a Muslim passenger was allegedly refused an unopened can of soda because she might “use it as a weapon.”
Tahera Ahmad, director of Interfaith Engagement and associate chaplain at Northwestern University, has accused United of “Islamophobia” after an encounter with a flight attendant Friday that left her in tears.
Ahmad wrote in a Facebook post that she asked for an unopened can of Diet Coke during beverage service on her flight. When she was brought an open can, she requested a new beverage for sanitary reasons but was told, “I’m sorry I just can’t give you an unopened can so no diet coke for you.”
A man sitting near her was later brought an unopened beer, and Ahmad, who wears a hijab in her Facebook profile photo, asked the flight attendant again why she wasn’t able to have a similar can.”
Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/31/tahera-ahmad-soda-united_n_7479464.html
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