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May 5, 2009
British Airline Dhimmis Remove Israel From Map
Posted by Dave Blount at May 5, 2009 8:17 AM
Some in Britain are apparently willing to make a mockery of reality itself to demonstrate their obsequious dhimmitude:
The British airline, BMI, has removed Israel from the electronic maps displayed to passengers in some of its planes, Army Radio reports. The report claimed that the reason was to avoid offending Muslim passengers. However, the maps showed passengers the direction of Mecca.
Israel does not appear in maps on BMI flights between London and Tel Aviv, and Khefa, the pre-independence Arabic name for Haifa, appears on the maps.
In addition, the electronic maps display the distance between the plane and Mecca. … The airline has flights to Syria, Lebanon, and even Iran, whose President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed "to wipe Israel off the map."
Looks like BMI beat Mad Mahmoud to the job. An airline spokesman explains:
We make every effort to take passengers' sensitivities into account through an apolitical policy.
Here's another example of BMI's "apolitical policy":
BMI is apparently bending over backwards to accommodate the sensitivities of its Saudi passengers. The British weekly Sunday Times reported last week that a stewardess was fired because she refused to don an abaya head covering and to walk behind male flight attendants on a flight bound for Saudi Arabia, regardless of rank.
The BMI internal document issued to crewmembers bound for Saudi Arabia stated: "It is expected that female crew members will walk behind their male counterparts in public areas such as airports no matter what rank."
The flight attendant, Lisa Ashton, refused to abide by BMI's policy, and was fired when she refused to travel to Saudi Arabia if she would be required to don an abaya.
They say if you put a frog in a pot and bring it very slowly to a boil, the frog will cook instead of jumping out to save itself. But dhimmitude is being brought to a boil rather quickly in Britain. You'd think the frogs would start jumping.
On a tip from The MaryHunter. Hat tip: New Wineskins.
