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Asian students' shock at ejection from jet by passenger mutiny

Daily Mail
22:58pm 23rd August 2006

Two Asian students have revealed their shock and despair after being thrown off a plane because other passengers feared they were suicide bombers.

Manchester Umist students Sohail Ashraf and Khurram Zeb, both 22, said they sympathised with nervous travellers, but urged people not to be paranoid about Muslims.

"We might be Asian, but we're two ordinary lads who wanted a bit of fun," Mr Ashraf told the Daily Mirror.

"Just because we're Muslim does not mean we are suicide bombers."

The pair were marched off the jet at gunpoint after fellow passengers alerted officials on the flight back from Malaga, Spain.

Holidaymakers on board flight ZB 613 from Malaga to Manchester became alarmed at the men's behaviour, and demanded that air staff remove them from the plane in the incident last week.

The passengers on this plane did precisely the correct thing in notifying the crew of these two "lads" suspicious behavior. Given recent events in Britain, these to jerks should have known better than to "have a bit of fun." It is time for the TSA to utilize one of the most potent tools available to them and begin profiling passengers. This may boil down to all brown skinned passengers if events as reported by police in the border states turn out to be true. If there are indeed Middle Eastern men mingling into Mexican society to learn the culture prior to crossing the border illegally, then color discrimination may indeed prove necessary. It is not a good thing, but since neither Mexican nor American governments seem to be interested in stemming the tide of illegal crossings, the American people may wind up taking things into their own hands.

That would be a bad thing, but it would also be understandable. It is time for our elected representatives to get of their collective duffs and do their jobs. The politically motivated, intentional blindness of President Bush and our "illustrious" Senators is beneath contempt. The American people are demanding control of our border and enforcement of our immigration laws. We don't really need any new laws, we just need to enforce our current laws.

This issue is going to come to a head one way or another, I would prefer to see "civil authorities" take action rather than have a large and violent version of this civilian uprising on this British jet, but sooner or later we are going to have to pay the piper.

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