Student Removed From Plane

A California university student who was taken off a Southwest Airlines flight in Los Angeles after another passenger heard him speaking Arabic was traumatised and he wants an apology, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said on Monday.

A University of California, Berkeley student who came to the US as an Iraqi refugee says he was unfairly removed from a flight at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month because a fellow passenger was alarmed by an innocent conversation he was having in Arabic.

A California university student who was taken off a Southwest Airlines flight in Los Angeles after another passenger heard him speaking Arabic was traumatised and he wants an apology, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said on Monday.

A University of California, Berkeley student who came to the US as an Iraqi refugee says he was unfairly removed from a flight at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month because a fellow passenger was alarmed by an innocent conversation he was having in Arabic.