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how sad

Next time you are stranded on the tarmac waiting to take off,and you want to just get off the plane for a different flight, don't argue with the attendant, just pray.

Anyone that has flown knows there is a good reason why you must be seated and belted in. A plane makes a steep initial climb to clear the airports control area. Standing during this climb is darn near impossible. You would end up in the tail of the aircraft, and be injured or injure someone when you land on top of them.
The flight attendents did the right thing. Just maybe this man was being inconsiderate of all the other passengers.
I say good for them!

Perhaps the flight attendents should have pointed out to him that his religous ritual cannot interrupt everybody else's life.

And that if he really doesn't want his religous ritual interrupted, then perhaps he would be best to do it alone when nobody else is around, and keep his religous ritual to himself.

In this case, the crew did the proper thing. You must be belted in your seat, or else you do not fly, regardless of your particular religious ritual. I probably would have suspected he was a terrorist, as they, too, have plenty of religious rituals. Seems to be a common trait among those who place themselves above all others.

As others have said, kinda peculiar that he would believe his god must listen better if he is at the back of the plane, rather than about 30 feet forward in his seat. To me, just another example of the nut jobs that make up most wacky religions.

I'm waiting for the charges of anti-Semitism to be filed in this case...

sure. let's hold up a plane full of people for one guy to pray. there are reasons that everyone should be in their seat on a plane.

prayer is something that can be heard by God wherever you are, in the seat in the aisle, in the luggage compartment, in the pilots seat, and God expects us to pray, but He also expects us to obey the laws of the land or plane or wherever. and if it goes against your praying "ritual" than relocate your prayer time to another place. and that includes all religions, christian, jewish, muslim etc.......

1. Orthodox Jews pray several times a day in addition to prayers for various situations (before meals, after meals, before leaving on a trip).
2. The article stated that passengers were boarding, not that the plane was ready to leave, and that his prayers lasted only about 2-3 minutes.
3. Going to the back of the plane would make sense so as to be away from the traffic of people coming down the aisle, stowing luggage, etc.
4. Unless there were some other issues not mentioned in the article, it appears the man was not endangering anyone nor holding up the flight.
5. To remove him from the flight does not appear to be motivated by his causing any real problem.

Unless other issues are revealed, to me, the airline blundered. I wouldn't call it anti-Semitism, but there appeared to be a great lack of tact.

Does Mosaic Law require prayer at an exaxct time? Or could he have prayed before boarding? However The Airline could have been more tactful.