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Airline Apologizes For Booting 9 Muslims: Group Plans Discrimination Complaint

Date: January 3, 2009

Authors: Amy Gardner and Spencer S. Hsu

QUOTE: A U.S. airline apologized yesterday to nine Muslim American passengers from the Washington area who were removed from a flight out of Reagan National Airport, but a Muslim civil rights group said it intends to press a discrimination complaint against the airline for its treatment of the passengers.

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Key People:

• Nihad Awad

Key Organizations:

• AirTran Airways
• Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
• Washington Post Newspaper

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• Abstract Principles
  • Risk Taking

• Businesses & Organizations
  • Industry-Specific Issues
    • Travel/Lodging/Tourism

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • International Relations/Diplomacy
      • War/Military
        • Terrorism (conceptual)
          • Societal Reactions

• Social Sciences & Groups
  • Discrimination/Racism: General
    • Discrimination: Appearance
  • Multi-Cultural/Minority Issues
    • Ethnic Groups
      • Arab-Americans / Muslims

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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