"I have to go to the bathroom before I explode."

abassi's account is not the entire story?

Then the plane blew up...

If the flight attendant misunderstood what she said, that's life. We live in a dangerous time and we all know who the terrorist are for the most part. If a flight attendant or any employee for the airline becomes suspicious of a passenger we must go with their call. Unless ou prove bigotry, the case is closed.

they would have called the cops

this is even scarier for the vast majority ignorant of the shacharit ritual. but in this age of hyper paranoia understanding has no place... and neither does pushing religion beyond comprehensible levels.

its a question of security ....These people will not be happy until the US has a law like in france ....

when being removed for putting on Tefilin. These Arabs need to WIN, to defeat the infidels.

So Bubbleh, hows one to know wether or not the presenting party is in fact a female type person, if all you can is the whites of their eyeballs? Nothing against schmattahs, but without the touchy feely that the TSA get off on, howyagointaknow? Huh?

Then the lunatics who put on Tefillin should be re educated.

So quick to defend the rights of Jews but no such respect for their neighbors. Muslims are widely harassed in American society and Jews who tolerate it, or sometimes even promote it, are filthy.

In the West it's plain creepy to have covered faces in our midst. Simple. How rude for someone with medieval values impose it on us in the modern world, especially with anything to do with aviation, and ESPECIALLY since 9/11, which indelibly associates muslims and airplanes with mass murder. Sorry lady - you ain't gonna fly.

The woman was not wearing a niqab like in the photo Ynet chose to include. She was wearing a simple headscarf, with her face fully exposed. But please, feel free to continue rolling in the mud of your prejudices.

she should take it up with her own community....911 was courtesy of her "brothers" so I guess that's the price she will have to pay....OH WELL!

only a headscarf. She has every right to do to. The flight attendant was just paranoid.

Putting Tefilin on a foreign airline not familiar with religious jewish practices is understandable that they mistook it for a bomb, apart from that do we really have to have religious customs flaunted in our faces during a flight disrupting other passengers. Let them pray when they land not in the middle of the isle, keep religion out of our lives thankyou very much.

Bravo Jenny ! You said it clearly.!!!!

watch your mouth ntisemite. i have news for you. those you call lunatic jews donnig tefilin HAVE NEVER EVER IN ANY PLACE OR ANYWHERE BLOWN UP ANYTHING. MUSLIMS DO!

care to comment about most jews that are constantly harrassed by islamists and muslims uneducated barbarians in europe, in france, in italy, in spain, in malmo, in norway and i can name unlimited places on the gloe. they are burned to death and tortured (halimi kid in france), rabbis are beaten up in france and london and amsterdam, jews are leaving sweden because of the antisemitism from arab and muslim elements. care to comment about that, you moron?

have you ever looked into the newspapers, propaganda and sheer hateful tv programs that are the height of antisemitism and jew hatered in arab countries???? have you looked at their arab cartoons? at their hate messages about jews (not only about israel, mind you). have you looked how jews are portrayed in the arab and islamic press??? take a look. you'd be horrified.

give us a single, a single incidence where a jew promoted arab hatered and islam hatred in the usa. give us just one simple occurence to support your moronic claim. jews in the usa do not promote or tolerate hatred for muslims and islam. if you took the opportunity to see who were the biggest supporters of that abominable mosque that the muslims are trying to build on ground zero (shameful act, in my opinion), it was jews that went on the n.y. streets and supported this building together with mayor bloomberg who is a jew as well. so, shut your ignorant mouth.

Perhaps if the Muslims showed respect for non Muslims they would get some respect in return. Muslims are widely harrassed in their own society Shia/Sunni being a prime example. If they don't like it here in the "Great Satan" as they call us then they can vote with their feet and leave.

What is this nonsense about harassed Muslims in America? Why are you venting your steam on Ynet News? You seem to be obsessed with "Jews" for all kinds of reasons, but please know your limits. Jews are some times accusing America of antisemitism with no good reason while you are accusing Americans of being anti-Muslim. Keep your cool buddy because I for one don't want to be your punching bag. The truth is there is no more tolerant country on earth than the U.S.A., tolerant of everybody. Removing this woman from an airplane was an admitted mistake and she was compensated generously.

Let's see now, oh yeah, it was the Jews who crashed jets into the World Trade Center, and yeah, it was Jews who crashed a jet into the Pentagon and, oh yeah, it was Jews who attempted another crash but the passengers took them down! How could we ever forget 9/11/01. Oh, yeah that was such a long time ago! Wasn't it, like a thousand years ago?

I would be jittery too, unless I was flying El Al, the only airline who knows their passengers! Thank G-d for Israel and the Jews!!

At last, now we know were we stand. America has decided to cave in to whores.