{"id":271484,"date":"2016-10-06T20:19:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T20:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/muslim-man-in-us-thrown-off-plane-for-saying-inshallah\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T21:19:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:19:02","slug":"muslim-man-in-us-thrown-off-plane-for-saying-inshallah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/muslim-man-in-us-thrown-off-plane-for-saying-inshallah\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim man in US thrown off plane for saying &#039;inshallah&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A Muslim man in the United States was thrown off a plane for saying the Islamic phrase of \u201cinshallah\u201d, which means \u201cGod willing\u201d in Arabic, a report says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old Berkeley graduate, was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport in April after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic on his mobile phone, <em>The Independent <\/em>reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after sitting on his chair Makhzoomi called his uncle in Baghdad, Iraq, to tell him about his excitement of having a brief encounter with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.<\/p>\n<p>Before ending the call, he used the Islamic phrase of &#8220;inshallah.\u201d The man noticed a female passenger staring at him but he thought she was irritated because he spoke loudly.<\/p>\n<p>But within two minutes one guy came with police officers, and told him to get off the plane, he told CNN. &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe how fast they were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An agent escorted him outside and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/10\/06\/487961\/Muslim-man-plane-inshallah\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim man in the United States was thrown off a plane for saying the Islamic phrase of \u201cinshallah\u201d, which means \u201cGod willing\u201d in Arabic, a report says. Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a 26-year-old Berkeley graduate, was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport in April after another passenger overheard him speaking Arabic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}