US Muslim student files discrimination complaint after being-kicked off Spirit flight

Sunday 13 Mar 2016 - 13:41 Makkah mean time-4-6-1437

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Detroit, (IINA) - A Muslim student of University of Michigan is filing a discrimination complaint with the state department of civil rights after she says she was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight (American Airline) on Saturday, CBS Detroit reported.
Nadia Majed says she was diagnosed with claustrophobia and anxiety, and asked for an apparently open window seat when she got into a dispute with a flight attendant.
“She asked me, ‘do you not understand what I’m telling you? I said go back to your seat,’ and she’s snapping her neck and like raising her voice,” said Majed.
“I just started hyperventilating,” she said.
Now the Arab American Civil Rights League  (AMCRL) wants the state department of civil rights to investigate Majed’s treatment by the airline. Nabih Ayad, Majed’s attorney, claims the flight attendant’s response was biased, WREG (News Channel 3 TV) reported.
“I’ve been doing this for 16 years,” said Ayed. She added that her expertise led her to believe that the attendant’s inaction with regard to her client’s condition “was due to her ethnic background,” according to CBS Detroit.
Ayed said a growing anti-Arab sentiment in the country includes remarks made by GOP candidate Donald Trump “saying that Islam hates us.
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