LONDON (AP) — Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary is facing criticism for suggesting Muslim men should be singled out for extra scrutiny at airports.
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The boss of the Irish budget carrier told Saturday’s Times of London that families with young children should not be subjected to airport security checks because there was “zero” chance of them being bombers. He said terrorists “will generally be males of a Muslim persuasion.”
“Thirty years ago it was the Irish,” he said. “If that is where the threat is coming from, deal with the threat.”
The Muslim Council of Britain called the comments “racist and discriminatory.” Tell Mama, a charity that monitors hate incidents against Muslims, said O’Leary’s “flippant” comments could harm Ryanair’s business.
Labour Party lawmaker Khalid Mahmood said O’Leary was “being very blinkered and is actually encouraging racism.”
O’Leary has a history of provocative remarks that keep Ryanair’s name in the headlines.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Times, O’Leary branded most airport security “utterly useless,” complained that airlines unfairly got the blame for climate change, and said requirements that Ryanair’s Dublin offices have disabled access to all floors were “nonsense.”
Umm just a silly question, please tell me about a time when non Muslims blew up an air plane ? And what are the statistics?
I mean isn’t it obvious that it’s more prevalent among Muslim or Arab men ? ( yes Arabs are Muslims to . Don’t bore me with boring facts that they differ. It’s all one big story) So when it comes to something as severe as terror isn’t that the time when it makes sense to racial profile if appripo?
Back in the 1970’s, one of these momzarim (Muslim male), went to Ireland, befriended a female, whom he became intimate with, got her pregnant, and sent her on an El Al plane to Israel with explosives in her suitcases. He was willing to kill his own unborn child, as long as he succeeded in blowing up an El Al plane. Fortunately, El Al security detected the explosives before the plane left, and arrested the woman, who was duped. I don’t know if her boyfriend was ever caught, or what happened to her. The point that I’m trying to make is that these savages, won’t stop at anything to achieve their murderous goals.