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How do you know that the Muslim passengers on that flight in Malaga wore jackets in order to intimidate other passengers? Or that Raed Jarrar was trying to provoke a confrontation?
Answer is: you don't. It's simply a (pretty unconvincing) way for you to excuse bigotry on the part of airline passengers on those flights.
Fact is, there's no rule prohibiting wearing a jacket on a hot day, or wearing a t-shirt with Arabic writing on it. The passengers involved are ignorant bigots, that's all, and the airlines involved shouldn't have caved in to such bigotry. I hope that, the next time you're on a plane, you'll restrain the impulse to ruin someone's trip because they're 'flying while Muslim'.
