A Muslim family of five were also escorted off a United Airlines flight in March for “how they looked”. Radwan, a chemical engineer, said he was flying from Charlotte to Detroit on December 6, 2015, on American Airlines Flight 1821. In a case of alleged discrimination in the US, a 40-year-old Muslim man was removed from a plane after a flight attendant publicly announced his name, seat number and said she would be “watching” him. The flight attendant did not make such a statement about any other passenger, Radwan said. In April, a Muslim woman was removed from a Southwest Airlines plane at a Chicago airport after she had asked to switch seats as she was told she had made the flight attendant “uncomfortable”.

Source: Indian Express July 21, 2016 11:26 UTC