Item: Being thrown off a plane because someone got scared when people speak Arabic.
Item: Family removed from plane when fellow passenger got scared because muslims are evil and scary.
Those sort of things are almost understandable, peaking after terrorist attacks, but there's a whole new level of fear about when a Sikh in Auckland* with headphones hanging out of his bag causes a terrorist alert.
*Yes, that's in New Zealand, where the last terrorist attack was carried out by the French government.
However, things have got much worse and there wasn't even a recent terrorist attack to blame the paranoia on.
An Italian bloke sitting in his seat setting a maths test for his students. Or, as the passenger next to him thought "writing strange symbols".
She accordingly calls the hostess and plays the terrorism card.
Have we reached peak fear yet?
Item: Family removed from plane when fellow passenger got scared because muslims are evil and scary.
Those sort of things are almost understandable, peaking after terrorist attacks, but there's a whole new level of fear about when a Sikh in Auckland* with headphones hanging out of his bag causes a terrorist alert.
*Yes, that's in New Zealand, where the last terrorist attack was carried out by the French government.
However, things have got much worse and there wasn't even a recent terrorist attack to blame the paranoia on.
An Italian bloke sitting in his seat setting a maths test for his students. Or, as the passenger next to him thought "writing strange symbols".
She accordingly calls the hostess and plays the terrorism card.
Have we reached peak fear yet?
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