Two men stopped from boarding flight in US for speaking Arabic               

Two men stopped from boarding flight in US for speaking Arabic               

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 08:43 PM IST
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New York : Two Palestinian-origin men were stopped from boarding a flight back home in the US because a fellow passenger was scared to fly with them for speaking in Arabic, an incident showing public paranoia after the Paris attacks. Maher Khalil, 29, even shared sweets with fellow passengers after they kept on enquiring about a small white box and made him open it. Khalil, who owns a pizza shop in the US, was in Chicago with his friend Anas Ayyad, 28, visiting each other’s families and the duo were asked to step aside during the boarding process for returning home because a fellow passenger said he was afraid to fly with them. The two men had moved to Philadelphia from Palestine 15 years ago, NBC reported. “If that person doesn’t feel safe, let them take the bus,” Khalil told a Southwest Airlines gate agent on Wednesday night after being denied boarding the aircraft. “We’re American citizens just like everybody else,” he said as he called the police himself to deal with the unexpected situation. The flight was delayed and the two men were ultimately allowed to board after being questioned again by airport security and police.

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