In a latest case of alleged Muslim discrimination in the United States, a flight attendant announced the name and seat number of a Muslim man and said publicly that, “she would be watching him”. Later the 40-year-old man was removed from the American airline flight citing, the attendant felt uncomfortable.

The incident came to light when the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)  filed a complaint to transport authorities that Mohamed Ahmed Radwan was removed from the American Airlines Flight last December because of his “identifiably Arabic and Muslim name.”

The federal law prohibit airlines from discriminating against passengers based on religion, national origin and ancestry among other criteria.

The Charlotte Observer reported, a letter was sent by the CAIR to the Department of Transportation (DOT) urging a “thorough examination” into prevailing practices of major airlines.

Mr. Radwan is a chemical engineer. He was flying from Charlotte to Detroit on December 6, 2015, on American Airlines Flight 1821.

As he was taking his allotted seat, Mr. Radwan said, a female flight attendant loudly announced, “Mohamed Ahmed, Seat 25—A, I will be watching you.”

After a minute, she repeated, “Mohamed Ahmed, that is a very long name, Seat 25—A, I will be watching you.” Then a third time, according to Radwan, she said, “25—A: you will be watched.”

“I was in total shock. I’ve been flying for over 30 years, and I’ve never heard something like that,” he said.

After a couple of American Airlines employees talked to him, he was told the attendant felt “uncomfortable” and he was escorted off the flight.

“I felt too unsafe to fly with American again,” he said.

“I’ve been a U.S. citizen for 13 years, but at that moment I felt my sense of being American taken from me,” he said.

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