...bomb joke is no joke

If the imam doesn't want his daughter to sit next to a stranger especially a man, he shouldn't allow his daughter to travel in a public transportation in civilize world, he should either charter a private jet to carry his 'princess' around, or tell her to take a walk or use a bicycle, no more angry issue confronting him. It will be a lot better for him if he can lock her up in a cave where he is the only man she come in contact in her entire life. Unfortunately, it is not up to him to decide who or what skin color or body size that person is supposed to be sitting next to his daughter in a commercial airplane, it is up to the ticketing counter to assign seat for the passenger. It shouldn't be an issue at all, except for this extremist that has nothing sensible to do in his life.

@lampar. I cannot comment really for the imam because I really don't know him aside from the news item. but I do feel that he did exaggerated his need for his daughter not to be seated to a complete stranger.

Well I guess bad joke indeed for trying to get his point. Well I think the flight attendants should have made arrangement to settle this thing and they would not have been delayed and all. But then the damage has been done in here but I think both the flight attendants and the passenger is at fault in here. If the flight attendants were aware of this customs then this would not have happened and for the passenger making a bad joke then I guess that is pretty acceptable.

I he is too but he was too preoccupied with the notion of his daughter seating to a a complete and total stranger or man. I think that he should have been aware already of the seating arrangement because of the boarding pass. He could have exchanged his seat for his daughter's if he is so insistent on practicing their customs. I think he made the bomb joke as a last resort. But in retuning, it caused inconvenience for all of them.

I wish eh just did that instead of the bomb joke. If I were one of the passengers, I would have certainly been inconvenienced at his expense. I also like your suggestion of talking things over instead of resulting to these kinds of actions. Many things can be accomplished by peaceful negotiation.

I don't also believe that his daughter was also in danger in the duration of the flight. I don;t think that the man who will sits beside her Daugherty will even speak to her - seatmates at a public transport system don't usually speak to each other and even if they do, they are usually trial and civil. His fear

His fears are understandable, but communication has been invented as well... I don't think that he couldn't find anyone before getting on board to help with changing the seats. Airport staff have seen all kinds of people, so they should have understood him. There are so many peaceful followers of Islam who try to make a better image of their religion so people don't associate it with terrorism. A bomb joke from the imam was a terrible idea and hopefully he will learn from it.