Spanish university professor beard cause him to be forced off a plane by German passengers
Spanish university professor beard cause him to be forced off a plane by German passengers
Submitted by Khalid on Fri, 2006/09/29 - 21:33.Pablo Gutierrez Vega is a 35 year old law professor at the University of Seville.
He was on an Air Berlin flight when three German passengers approached him and asked to search his luggage. When he realized that they are not undercover police he refused.
Why did this happen? Because Vega had a dark complex and (horror or horrors) a beard!
Vega says that "they treated me like an Islamic terrorist because of my appearance". Moreover, he says that the pilot told him "the passengers believed I was a Muslim".
How shocking!
Read the detailed from the AP and CBS.
Note: this is similar to the two Asian men who were forced off a Malaga-Manchester flight by fellow passengers. Read more from the BBC.
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Hadn't Heard Of This Incident
Hey Khalid
WOW, that is shocking! Why I felt the urge to comment is the following, we keep hearing of "stupid yanks" reacting in this way, but you don't hear from any other nationalities reacting in this primitive manner. I quickly searched on Spiegel.de (a German news site I regularly frequent) for this story, to no avail.
A bit of searching
Not sure about Der Spiegel, but a quick search shows the article is still on major news sites, such as CBS News and SFGate.
Note that the main source is Associated Press.
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Khalid Baheyeldin
Suck it up. Better safe
Suck it up. Better safe than sorry. I am very thankful that people are watching out for others.
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