Four men thrown off flight tell RT Thomas Cook is scapegoating ‘bearded Asians’
‘Four students found themselves kicked off a flight after allegedly playing a song with the word “bomb” in it, but the young men say they were targeted for being “bearded Asians.”
On September 26, Nabeal Iqbal, Hammad Ahmed, Tasiq Ali, and Shabad Niaz were on their way to Turkey on a flight operated by travel agency Thomas Cook, but when they landed at the coastal city of Dalaman heavily-armed police forced the group off the plane.
Iqbal told RT: “The police escorted us to the front of the plane. At this point the cabin crew had found someone…. and he turned around and said he heard the word ‘bomb.’ Later on he said we played a song with the word ‘bomb’ in it.”’
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