Prayer Confusion Diverts Flight to Philly
Posted on February 10, 2010
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Authorities say a misunderstanding about a Jewish prayer ritual led to the diversion of a US Airways flight to Philadelphia. (Jan. 21)
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25 Responses to “Prayer Confusion Diverts Flight to Philly”
pretty ridiculous situation.
Tefillin are very small. Less than a 2 inch cube. It would be much easier to use the souls of your shoes, a digital camera, a cellphone, a laptop, or myriad other devices. What we need to do is have good detection for chemical residue of explosives as part of our screening. We all need to stop being afraid to use ethnic profiling.
lol how am I cowardly you stupid cockfiend, just because you say so? oooo bitch.
You misbegotten cowardly little sack of shit.
We must take note that Islamists may just use religious Jewish objects to conduct their terrorist operations in the future.
I am a religious, Orthodox Jew. We wear tefillin every day during our morning prayers. They are leather boxes which contain parchments with Biblical verses on them. This ritual is over 3,000 years old. We wear one on the head to symbolize devoting our intellect to serving God, and one on the left arm (ajacent to the left side of the chest, where the heart is). This symbolizes devoting our actions (arm) and emotions (heart) to God.
I have no problem with what the airline or police did.
Dude did NOT get screened… Not that the screeners would have caught powder in his drawls. But he was escorted right onto the plane… past security.
@AvatarMarxon90
LOL you think christians are not that crazy?
They bomb abortion clinics.
The world is a dangerous place because of religion. We should respect al-Quaeda, if we are to respect religions.
IGNORANT NARROWMINDED IDIOOOOOOOTTTTSSS!
GAWD I’d sue the flight attendant if I were his parents, or fire him if I was his boss, sorry I just cant stand close mindedness.
id check that jew too never know???
That’s exactly what the rag-heads are attempting to do; make professional people act stupidly. If people stop flying it won’t be due to terrorist, it will be due to all the f&*king security BS and stupid flight crews like this one.
@dxward it’s not A teffilin. It’s simply tfillin.
You’d figure the flight attendants would have basic training on non christian prayer rituals. The security obviously has training on how to “randomly” check a “brown” person.
I took a train to Chicago for a Cubs game a couple of years ago and a woman was shouting at the devil the entire time. Screaming at him or it in the empty(for obvious reasons) seat next to her. We didn’t stop for that. That’s a lot weirder.
Still the most fun train ride I’ve ever had.
i saw a guy using a tefflin, i thought he was casting a spell. it was the coolest thing i had ever seen.
Thanks for the anti-islam rant, but this had nothing to do with islam. Praying with the tefflin is a JEWISH religious rite.
I’m not a religious person at all, but come on folks, haven’t we all seen devout jewish people on TV or in movies, with these little boxes tied to their heads?
Doesn’t the airline have ANY diversity training, to prepare the ignorant flight attendant on the use of phylacteries?
Well, they will now.
that is the funniest thing i’ve EVER heard….Olfactory????????????
i can’t stop laughing….what an imbecile!!!!
Are we the dumbest country in the world or what? What a bunch of pussies.
Israel is a terrorist country.
This is called KARMA!
Israel? is a terrorist country.
This is called KARMA!
It cleared gate security. Just like a cell phone, laptop, gameboy. No electronics, or battery, or wires involved in the religious ornament.
Crew are never suspicious? Of someone connecting wires to electronic “devices” the size of small bombs on planes (cell phone, laptop)?!
No. We “all know” they have to have those tech “prayer” items with them at all times and practice their “religious rites” in flight. They’re only communicating with their gods.
Leave your underwear at the gate.
Or better said, the only reason we have bombs on planes is because of fanatical and extremist Islamic groups. You don’t see other religions doing it, so you can’t generalize (once again). The Germans are all guilty because of the terrors made by only a part of its population during World War 2? Definately no.
This reminds me of when my husband and I were on the Eurostar to London. My husband went to the area (on the train) where the luggage is stored to pray, an English couple sitting near me peered down the train & saw him putting his Teffillin on & I heard the wife say to the husband “I wonder what he’s doing” he answers “I think he’s praying bc they’re Jewish” to which she says “no they’re not, I heard them talking English”!!
Also, Jews don’t “need” Tefillin to pray. Jews wear the Tefillin only because it is a distinct commandment in the Torah which has been observed for thousands of years irrespective of prayer. Tefillin are almost exclusively worn during the morning service on Sunday-Friday. Very few put them on during afternoon service and they are not to be worn during the evening service. They are not worn on Sabbath or or on holidays such as Yom Kippur (which is associated with prayer/repentance) .
You would think something mentioned explicitly in several of the most famous verses of the most famous and widely owned book in the world aka The Bible, and which has been worn for literally thousands of years would be fairly well known in what is allegedly a predominantly Christian country, but never underestimate the overwhelming ignorance of today’s populace.
You can call it ignorant, you can call it irreverent, but sarcastically saying it’s intolerant is ridiculous. Intolerant would be saying “these box-wearing people must be stopped!” and I’m ambivalent, in all honesty. It just strikes me as a little strange to need paraphernalia to pray, but I’m not particularly religious, so obviously I am biased.