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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: mord on April 30, 2009, 07:18:08 AM
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1082064.html
British airline BMI has deleted Israel from electronic maps that appear on its flights in order to avoid angering Muslim passengers, Army Radio reported on Thursday.
Additional efforts on to appeal to Muslim customers include showing the distance and relation of the plane to Mecca, the direction to which Muslims face when they pray.
In the electronic maps appearing on a BMI flight from London to Tel Aviv, for example, Israel and its cities are not marked, with the exception of Haifa, which is spelled 'Khefa,' the city's Arab name dating to before the War of Independence.
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BMI operates flights from England to many popular Muslim destinations, including Syria, Lebanon and Iran, but has also recently launched an agreement with the Tourism Ministry to add Israel to its roster.
BMI said in response that two planes en route to Tel Aviv were originally destined to arrive in Arab countries, so the map was tailored to those passengers and showed Muslim holy sites.
The company issued a statement saying that a "logistic failure" caused the map to appear on the Tel Aviv-bound flight and said it will be removed from planes flying to Israel. The statement added that BMI was making every effort not to hurt passengers' feelings by adopting a nonpolitical position, the statement added
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Oh, come on, give me a break.
This is beyond idiotic and ridiculous.
So, this should work both ways, right?
If we are offended by Arab or Muslim countries, major airlines (ex. Americana Airlines, Delta, Etc., Etc.), should be forced to remove those countries or even rename them on the itinerary maps as not to offend our sensibilities.
It must be very difficult to be a Muslim, because everything and anything is offensive to them.
Their idiocy is beyond me.
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They should expose the people who came up with the idea and the ones who gave orders to carry them out.
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Apparently this airline has wiped Israel off the map.
Nice to see where their sympathies lie.
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This world needs more Jews and Christians and Hindus to have more children who will be able to fight against these mongrels.
I have been refusing to install an update of a software on my Ubuntu machine because the description of the update indicates that it is related to a place called "Palestine" which according to me doesn't exist. Why would I install software to fix a problem with software for a mythical place called Palestine? I wanted to find out who is responsible for such BS!
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Ironically, in a single generation, Britain will be wiped off the map by its muslim nazi population. At least God has a sense of humor in irony.
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Some British companies may still be thinking that they still have a British Empire and that they can create any BS and the world will digest it.
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This is like refusing to teach the Holocaust because you might offend the terrorist Nazi sympathizer Muslims.
Actually Britain is doing that as well.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article1600686.ece