From the Telegraph via Tongue Tied:

A devout Christian was banned from flying with the budget airline Easyjet after she asked staff to “stop blaspheming”.

Fiz Thomson, 55, was returning from a trip to Israel where she had been helping war victims, when she heard boarding staff at Stansted airport repeatedly exclaiming “Oh, my God” after a child fell and hurt herself.

She said she politely asked them to stop taking God’s name in vain. She was then approached by a security official and she claims she was called a “racist” for remarking that her complaint would have been taken more seriously had she been Islamic.
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As a result of the altercation on Tuesday, her boarding card was withheld, her luggage was taken off the Edinburgh-bound flight and she was barred from flying with the airline for 24 hours.

The grandmother, from Burntisland, Fife, who worships at the independent Vine Church in Dunfermline, said: “There was absolutely nothing at all that I said to the airport staff which could have been interpreted as racist. “I was very polite and non aggressive, but one of the ladies angrily asked me if I expected everyone to follow my religion and do as I did.

Shame.

She shoulda just started a riot, beheaded a few people, shot some infidels and bombed an embassy. Had she done that, maybe she would’ve had people on her side and trying to figure out the root causes of her actions.

Honestly, folks. Security?

I don’t like that she told the staff not to blaspheme her God. Frankly, my God may not be your God if you even believe in one. That really isn’t the point here. The part I have a problem with, though, is that they called Security over. She’s a 55 year old woman. Can anyone honestly say she’s a security risk of any kind?

Anyway, the airline isn’t talking either. Check out this copout:

According to Easyjet, Mrs Thomson was “ranting at female gate staff of Indian origin” who had had no intention to be blasphemous.

A spokesman said her remarks appeared to be racist and a view was taken that she needed to calm down and would not be allowed to fly.

Appeared to be racist? How do remarks “appear” to be racist? They either are or they aren’t! And if they are, how about repeating these supposedly racist remarks, then? I mean, if they’re that offensive, they’d shed a great deal of light on this story. Let’s hear what she said!

The truth of what happened is probably like this:

1. Kid falls.
2. Staffer says “Oh my God.”
3. Thomson tells her not to be blasphemous.
4. Staffer says, “I wasn’t.”
5. Thomson says she was.
6. Someone sees an argument between a dark-skinned and light skinned woman, and immediately takes the side of the dark-skinned woman.
7. Racism is introduced because it’s fun.
8. Thomson is banned from flight.

Stupid.

Stupid.

Stupid.

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