The Jewish Non-Terrorist

A Southern flight attendant assumed a passenger on a flight to Louisville, Kentucky was a terrorist because he was wearing a kippah and praying in Hebrew with tefillin.

The media is acting as though this is a non-issue; they say the boy was extremely cooperative, and once the pilot and crew realized the passenger was a Jewish boy praying and that tefillin are for prayer purposes and not bombs, everything was fine.

But it took police taking him into custody and questioning him to find this out. The FBI questioned nearly everyone on the plane, and some people had their flights cancelled. Seemingly, the passengers were not scared of the suspected "terrorist;" they were annoyed by the employees. None of the flight attendants asked him what he was doing or requested to look at the tefillin.

A passenger on the plane who sat next to the Jewish boy told the website Jewcy, "There was no problem with [the Jewish passenger] at all." He also said the flight attendant didn't understand the Jewish faith and reported the "suspicious activity" out of anti-Semitic bias.

So instead of just being worried about real terrorists, we can now also worry about being suspected of being terrorists ourselves, just for belonging to the people Osama bin Laden hates above all others.