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2007-01-17 Fifth Column

Detroit Hajjis complain about Northwest Airlines treatment in Frankfurt

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-17 03:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Qazwini said he will consider contacting other Muslim groups to urge a boycott of Northwest.

Please do...

Posted by Northwest Airlines 2007-01-17 13:12|| 2007-01-17 13:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Boycott em' ALL......Walk or swim asshats

Posted by ARMYGUY 2007-01-17 13:26|| 2007-01-17 13:26|| Front Page Top

#3 All praise the pagan piggy goddess allah and the camel she road in on.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-01-17 14:40|| 2007-01-17 14:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Qazwini said he will consider contacting other Muslim groups to urge a boycott of Northwest.

An airline that won't be subject to a Richard Reid-style terrorist attack. I say:

FLY NORTHWEST!

Posted by BigEd 2007-01-17 14:48|| 2007-01-17 14:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Why were they refused passage to Detroit? Because Detroit took a look at the Muzziemeter and it said 'FULL'

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-01-17 15:14|| 2007-01-17 15:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Shit. Northwest is trying to horn in on our action.

Posted by USAir 2007-01-17 15:46|| 2007-01-17 15:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, blow me. How about this: "ex-Army officer complains about treatment in Frankfurt." I flew out out of there for the holidays, and just about fuckin blew my lid. Got there plenty early. Waited in line to get into another line. Noticed that check-in for Lufthansa flights to the US and Israel are separated off from all others, grouped and screened together.

Then, it was off to throw away our lighters, then to the security checkpoint; shoes off, the works. 100 meters later, we had to do it all over again at a second checkpoint (in case we picked up a time bomb at duty free in between, I guess). Shoes off, the works -- plus, a pat-down that involved a shocking level of interest in my bra and panties. I mean, shocking -- yet they won't lift a Muslim woman's veil? It was such a struggle to stay in control, I actually blurted out, "was it as good for you as it was for me?" Thankfully, I suppose, she didn't understand.

All that, only to find that meals on board came with metal knives.

We endure these indignities only because our governments would rather hassle us compliant sheep in the name of "tolerance," than get off their duffs and pulverize these muzzie assholes already. My reward for obediently showing up three hours early is to get my zooch felt up, and these guys are whining? Sympathy in my book is right between shit and syphilis.

/rant off!

Posted by exJAG 2007-01-17 17:16|| 2007-01-17 17:16|| Front Page Top

#8 9.8
Extra points for "zooch" use.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-17 17:20|| 2007-01-17 17:20|| Front Page Top

#9 The official rating is 9.76 (an extra 0.04 deducted for failure to label the pat-downer as "a Nazi bull leather dyke").

Truly superb rant, though.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-01-17 17:28|| 2007-01-17 17:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Inform all the complainers that they're now on the "no-fly" list, and that idiots who can't comprehend the need to get to the airplane on time shouldn't be allowed to fly.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-01-17 18:03|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-01-17 18:03|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm always sorry when I ask, but "zooch"?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-17 19:16|| 2007-01-17 19:16|| Front Page Top

#12 IIUC, latin for "casabas" or more colloquially, "rack"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-17 19:50|| 2007-01-17 19:50|| Front Page Top

#13 When I was a kid, "zooch" was my mother's word for "down there." Mind you, we were out in the open, not screened off anywhere, and I was not given the option.

However, to be fair, she wasn't truly "a Nazi bull leather dyke" -- just one of those infuriatingly meticulous Germans who live to scrutinize your papers.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad flights to the US get the Israeli-grade security workover. But I get the sense that Germans privately enjoy having an excuse to harass Americans and Israelis. Can't imagine why.

Posted by exJAG 2007-01-17 23:29|| 2007-01-17 23:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Thank you, Frank, exJAG. Mama was a health care professional, Daddy a medical research professor, so we used the proper technical terminology at home. I really appreciate the opportunity to learn an entire segment of vocabulary that I was missing. (Mr. Wife explains things, too. For some reason he still finds this amusing.)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-17 23:39|| 2007-01-17 23:39|| Front Page Top

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