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Aboushi, now a practicing attorney, represents four Americans of various ethnicities who claim to have been the target of bias by the airline carrier American Airlines.
"I think they do happen on a regular basis," Aboushi said on Tuesday.
"More frequently than one would think and it has decreased due to the political climate and the discussions that take place concerning the Middle East and Muslims."
According to court documents, the airline allegedly removed the four individuals from a New York flight bound to Toronto in December 2015 based on their appearance.
The defendants are seeking a combined $9 million in punitive damages for "unlawful discrimination."
Of the four plaintiffs, three were Muslim and one was Sikh, court documents show.
Comment: The rise of this barbaric anti-Muslim sentiment will likely be remembered, by those on the right side of history, as one of humanity's greatest failures.
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Well, it didn't take long for our prediction to come true. We warned back in September 2015 that sympathy for the Syrian/Arab/Muslim refugees would be transformed into hate to fuel geopolitical motives. Just four months separates the 'refugee rape epidemic' that, apparently, spontaneously broke out across Europe on New Year's Eve, from the date when 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach. Like the 'horde' of Syrians fleeing their NATO-torn country, Aylan's family tried crossing the Aegean Sea in a rubber dinghy, in dire weather conditions. Aylan, his 5-year-old brother Galib, and their mother Rehana, drowned.
Just to remind you of the chronology of events here. A photo-journalist happened to be at the beach Aylan washed up on; Western journalists suddenly noticed refugees were dying in droves; and the public expressed outrage for the 'collateral damage' pouring out of Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. Whether or not Aylan's fate was deliberately used as political capital, public sympathy flowed for those fleeing the shadow of imminent and violent death. So many other events have transpired since that dark day in September. These days, you can barely register sadness for the loss of innocent lives before fresh atrocities make new headlines.
For all the children who drowned and keep drowning in the Aegean Sea
Comment: The rise of this barbaric anti-Muslim sentiment will likely be remembered, by those on the right side of history, as one of humanity's greatest failures.
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