As I said to Aisha, God is bigger than the "Prayer Time".
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 22/01/2010 05:47:43 PM
Seriously? Could you do your morning prayers before the flight and not on the middle of it? The plane is not the place for your morning prayers and no, I don't care how devout you (the passenger) are!
There is a simple way to stop all the shenanigans happening on flights. This man should be charged for all the extra fuel and employee wages that the diversion caused. If they start charging people and billing them thousands of dollars for their disturbances (and stupidity) then people will begin to think twice before acting a fool or inappropriately.
1) Jewish prayers must be said after sunup, which I'm guessing didn't occur until he got on the plane, and then he had to pray on the plane.
What a ridiculous rule if the entire Orthodoxy refuse to make the appropriate allowances for the 21st Century or any flexibility. Prayer times are after all set by men not God.
2) You're going to charge someone for being suspected? Does that not sound ridiculous to you at all? The crew is in the wrong here, not the kid doing his daily ritual! He wasn't acting inappropriately, he was obeying his religion. Be a little tolerant, and a little less ignorant.
I am going to charge someone for being a nuisance and causing thousands of dollars in delays when that individual or group do stupid things that are clearly the cause of said delays. As I said in other posts I would be willing to reconsider this case but there have been others recently where people did or said things on purpose to cause trouble in the middle of a flight. They should be charged. It is called punishment, not ignorance.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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- 21/01/2010 08:58:52 PM
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Sorry, your comments are dumb.
- 21/01/2010 09:57:02 PM
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- 22/01/2010 02:11:43 AM
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- 22/01/2010 02:11:43 AM
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Sorry, I don't consider praying on a plane acting foolishly or inappropriately.
- 21/01/2010 10:28:58 PM
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His being Jewish has nothing to do with it. Use some common sense - pray silently.
- 22/01/2010 12:32:40 AM
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or they could have looked and said "no problem just a wooden box used for prayer" and not diverted
- 21/01/2010 10:33:58 PM
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Fair enough, I can agree that they could have done that and should have done that.
- 22/01/2010 12:34:08 AM
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I feel guilty praying on planes because of attitudes like that
- 22/01/2010 12:24:04 AM
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Re: I feel guilty praying on planes because of attitudes like that
- 22/01/2010 12:37:21 AM
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People have every right to be suspicios without cause about what I SAY on a plane.
- 22/01/2010 01:57:24 AM
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and about the timing of the prayer...
- 22/01/2010 04:26:17 AM
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Allah is bigger than your "prayer time". The world won't end if you pray earlier or later.
- 22/01/2010 05:36:45 AM
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Re: Allah is bigger than your "prayer time". The world won't end if you pray earlier or later.
- 22/01/2010 05:46:44 PM
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Islam does explicitly make allowances for people who are traveling, though.
- 22/01/2010 01:14:17 PM
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You are just outright wrong.
- 22/01/2010 01:40:41 PM
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As I said to Aisha, God is bigger than the "Prayer Time".
- 22/01/2010 05:47:43 PM
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