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>>>>Jeez Jim. Enough with the paraphrasing. The passenger didn't have anybody removed. He raised a concern. It was the crew/pilot who had them removed.
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>>>So the note-passing passenger had nothing to do with the whole thing????? The passengers would have been removed even if there had been no note?
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>>You're twisting it. I said he raised a concern. That is certainly not the same thing as 'having them removed'. That is not his decision to make. Sure the note passer caused the crew to look more closely, but that's all. The removal was not up to him. It was at the discretion of the crew/pilot. What do you thing would have happend if the passenger had actually tried to remove the imams? He would have been arrested.
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>And how do you think it would have played out if the pilot said there was no discernible problem and it was intended to leave everything as-is?

Who knows? If the passenger then continued to make a fuss, he probably would have been ejected. If not, then likely the plane would simply have taken off.

On the other hand, when the Imams refused to take their proper seats, it's very unlikely that the situation would have been 'left as is'. If I switched seats and was asked to take my proper seat and refused. I'd be kicked off, why not them? Is being a muslim supposed to be protection from the consequences of acting badly?

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>>>>I do agree with you about the zoning laws though. Too many of them are utter nonsense anyway.