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2 Men Barred from U.S. Flight for Speaking Arabic

HeadlineNov 23, 2015

Islamophobic incidents have continued in the United States following the attacks in Paris. On Thursday, two men were temporarily barred from boarding a Southwest flight from Chicago to Philadelphia after a passenger heard them speaking Arabic. In Texas, meanwhile, armed protesters rallied outside the Islamic Center of Irving, decrying the “Islamization of America.”

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