Northwest Airlines caves to radical Muslims...

But not to the Shekel blogger.


According to this article by the lovely and talented Deb Schlussel, a batch of radical Muslim Imams got bent out of shape when they arrived at a Northwest Airlines gate just twenty minutes before a scheduled flight departure and were not allowed to board the plane in accordance with Northwest's clearly-stated policies which provide that passengers for foreign flights must check in an hour before the flight and board half an hour before the flight. Anyone showing up late doesn't board even though the plane is still sitting there, as my friend, keeper of The Shekel blog found out when he was here visiting me a few months ago. I dropped HIM off at Northwest's Dulles terminal half an hour prior to departure of his flight to Toronto and they refused to let him board. I guess that he should have taken a towel out of his suitcase, made a funny hat out of it, and claimed to be a Muslim cleric. Then he would have either been allowed to board (and probably given a seat right next to the cockpit, knowing Northwest) or given financial compensation like these screaming twelfth century throwbacks were.

But my friend wasn't a Muslim so he just had to sit and watch his plane leave without him and wait for the next one, earning no small amount of wrath from his lovely wife (who reads this blog so I'll say no more) when he finally did arrive in Toronto several hours late.

It must be good to be a Muslim cleric sometimes. You get to bash America and Western Culture all day but the moment that it doesn't go your way, you call for boycotts, threaten lawsuits, and watch as American corporations amend their policies just to suit you and pay you money to boot.

Northwest Air, you're pathetic. You've already got the worst record in the industry for missed or delayed flight and lost baggage, and your union employees frequently bend you and your paying customers over as they jack up your flight schedules to extort more money from you (which you always pay), and now you cave to the people who brought us 9/11. Way to show the rest of us why we should fly any airline but Northwest, semi-official sponsor of HAMAS and other terror supporters.