Three Muslim clerics traveling to a religious conference in the United States have been forced to get off a Delta flight because the pilot refused to fly with them on board.
The imams were heading to a conference on Islamphobia in Charlotte, North Carolina. Imam al-Amin Abdul-Latif was barred from boarding a flight from New York to Charlotte late on Friday. The other two clerics were traveling from Memphis, Tennessee to Charlotte.
Masudur Rahman and Mohamed Zaghloul of the Islamic Association of Greater Memphis were pulled from a connecting flight from Memphis to Charlotte on Friday, The Daily Mail reported.
“It's racism and bias because of our religion and appearance and because of misinformation about our religion,” Rahman said. “If they understood Islam, they wouldn't do this.”