BBC: British Airways is to review its policy on uniforms in the wake of a row over a worker ordered to stop wearing a cross.Mark Alexander
On Monday, Nadia Eweida, 55, from London, lost her appeal against a decision saying she could not wear the cross visibly at the check-in counter.
The airline's chief executive Willie Walsh said it had become clear BA's uniform policy needed to change "in the light of the public debate".
He said BA would consider allowing religious symbols worn as lapel badges.
He said it was unfair that BA had been accused of being anti-Christian.
Ms Eweida said she was effectively forced to take unpaid leave after refusing to hide the cross symbol she wore round her neck when people of other faiths were allowed to wear visible religious symbols such as headscarves. BA uniform review after cross row
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Since BA is being discussed, i want to mention how US Airways has become my favorite USA airlines. The day i wrote how some from the religion that dismembers human bodies was prevented from flying in Minnesota i said that like Europe, America might be getting over political correctness. I now know the whole story tahnks to Ann Coulter. Ann wrote that they were prevented because they were praying to Allah in the lobby before getting on board the airplane for a flight from Minnesota to Arizona. Now because of this American followers of that religion are calling for a boycott of US Airways.
Since once or twice a year my family flys to where my husband and my parents are from [i am not a native of senator John Kerry's state] i feel the boycott is a good recommendation for US Airways and the danger to my daughter and husband is decreased. And i am asking my relatives to also fly US Airways.
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one more thing: since they were flying to Arizona, Ann coulter provided the information that is the state where the one eyed cleric Omar Abdel-Rahmann is imprisoned.
More information on the muslims removed from US Airways in Minnesota:
[At least several of hte people if not all 6 removed from the plane] had only one way tickets and no carry on luggage. In additiion what i find curious is that they asked for a seat belt extension.
It is also reported that financial investors is afraid that US Airways might be heaviy fined by the government.
i read about this information of today's Michael Savage website.
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Mark,
I just finished reading all of the links you provided and this is certainly outstanding news!
Blogs such as yours have done a world of good in opening the eyes of the public at large. Your expertise and scholarship on this subject are top notch and much appreciated.
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You might be interested to know that there are currently two theories about the incident in Minneapolis involving the imams.
One is that they caught this group staging a "dry run" for a future terrorist attack, much like was done prior to the 9/11 attacks. They pushed the envelope by seeing how much they could get away with before someone noticed or complained.
The second theory is that it was a staged and carefully executed plan to enable the new Congressman elect from Minnesota to protest their treatment and demand changes to laws to protect all Muslims from future "discrimination" or "flying while Muslim"
I think it's both. The second one is going to allow the first plan to go on unimpeded. From an article in IBD:
"All six claim to be Americans, so clearly they were aware of heightened security. Surely they knew that groups of Muslim men flying together while praying to Allah fit the modus operandi of the 9/11 hijackers and would make a pilot nervous. Throw in anti-U.S. remarks and odd demands about seat belts, and they might as well have yelled, "Bomb!"
Yet they chose to make a spectacle. Why? Turns out among those attending their conference was Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who will be the first Muslim sworn into Congress (with his hand on the Quran). Two days earlier, Ellison, an African-American convert who wants to criminalize Muslim profiling, spoke at a fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim-rights group that wasted no time condemning US Airways for "prejudice and ignorance."
CAIR wants congressional hearings to investigate other incidents of "flying while Muslim." Incoming Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., has already drafted a resolution, borrowing from CAIR rhetoric, that gives Muslims special civil-rights protections."
For more on this subject read
here
**Did you notice the part where it said Ellison will be sworn into Congress with his hand on the Quran?
Hello Heathre
Thank you for the insight, and i agree both theories are correct.
I will check out your link. Maybe President Bush will veto Conyers & Ellisons legislation that favors CAIR.
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Heather:
I think it's both. The second one is going to allow the first plan to go on unimpeded.
Your theory of it being a combination seems quite plausible to me.
I just finished reading all of the links you provided and this is certainly outstanding news!
Isn't it, though? :-)
Blogs such as yours have done a world of good in opening the eyes of the public at large.
I'm so glad to hear it. At least our blogs are a counterbalance to the pc nonsense so often reported in the mainstream media.
Your expertise and scholarship on this subject are top notch and much appreciated.
Thank you so much, Heather. I really appreciate your kind words.
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