{"id":2883,"date":"2016-04-18T23:26:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/student-kicked-off-flight-for-potentially-threatening-comments-was-just-speaking-arabic\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T23:26:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:26:27","slug":"student-kicked-off-flight-for-potentially-threatening-comments-was-just-speaking-arabic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/18\/student-kicked-off-flight-for-potentially-threatening-comments-was-just-speaking-arabic\/","title":{"rendered":"Student kicked off flight for 'potentially threatening comments' was just speaking Arabic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was waiting for takeoff on a flight from Los Angeles to Oakland, California, when he decided to give his uncle in Baghdad, Iraq, a quick call.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old University of California, Berkeley student told his uncle he’d just attended a dinner with United Nations\u00a0Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. His uncle asked Makhzoomi to call him again when he got to Oakland, and Makhzoomi said “<\/span>insha’Allah<\/span>” \u2014 “God willing,” in Arabic \u2014 he would.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A woman, who had been staring<\/a> at\u00a0<\/span>Makhzoomi as he talked, suddenly stood and walked off the plane.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was waiting for takeoff on a flight from Los Angeles to Oakland, California, when he decided to give his uncle in Baghdad, Iraq, a quick call.\u00a0 The 26-year-old University of California, Berkeley student told his uncle he’d just … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[787,2116,729,2117,785],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-air-travel","tag-khairuldeen-makhzoomi","tag-police","tag-southwest","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}