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Stand Up/Sit Down?

I have read two versions concerning the muslim men that were removed from the airplane yesterday. One version was three prayed in the terminal before boarding and the other that three of them stood up in the airplane to pray. The plane was still at the terminal was consistence in both stories. In both stories it appears someone, a passenger, gave a flight attendant a note about being worried. Does any of this mean they should have been taken off the plane? Well, if they prayed in the terminal then NO. I am sure a lot of people pray before getting on the plane. Does it hurt if they stood up in the plane to pray. Maybe not but the stories never has gone far enough to point out if the plane was about to pull back from the jet way therefore everyone should have been in a seat. If that was the case and they refused to sit then remove them. Was the note enough to remove them? Don't know as if this is the case then I guess someone could write a note that they were afraid of the blacks, browns, yellows or whites on the plane and whomever they wrote the note about should be removed.
Does anyone understand this better than me? Let me know as the story as reported is just does not seem to be complete.

posted by Jay @ 1:45 PM