A Brooklyn woman says she was racially profiled by airport security, who yanked her off a plane because she is Muslim.
Kameelah Rasheed, 30, was headed to Turkey on a Lufthansa flight from Newark Liberty International Airport Tuesday when an FBI agent singled her out, she told AlJazeera.com.
GUEST COLUMN: REASONS TO FEAR AIRPORT SECURITY
Rasheed, her head covered in the traditional headscarf, had already gotten through customs and security and had boarded her Lufthansa flight, she said.
Aside from her hijab, she was dressed much like the other passengers, she said — in sneakers, running pants and a T-shirt.
The FBI agent’s questions were “circular and non-sensical,” she told AlJazeera.com.
She was eventually allowed to continue her journey — but by then she had missed her flight, she said.
Rather than wait for a later one, she returned to her Brooklyn home — and now she wants Lufthansa to give her a refund.
Calls to Lufthansa and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were not immediately returned.
A few days after the Nov. 13 terrorist attack in Paris, two Palestinian men in Chicago’s airport said they were pulled aside by a Southwest airlines clerk when a fearful passenger complained about them speaking Arabic while in line.
