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batyatoon ([personal profile] batyatoon) wrote2006-08-30 12:11 pm
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Can I just take a moment to froth in rage here?

"Why, Batya," you ask, "what has you so enraged?"

This.

I just. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING.



Edited to add: here's Raed Jarrar's own account of what happened. Thanks, [livejournal.com profile] madfilkentist.
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[personal profile] infiniteviking 2006-08-31 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."

But good Lord, there's stupid and then there's offensively stupid.....

Besides which: um, there was nobody in the airport who could translate Arabic!? What kind of security system is that? I can understand not having a translator readily available for some weird obscure language, but Arabic, especially today? Ergh.

I really want to be singing 'History Is Made By Stupid People' right now.