A Brooklyn woman wearing a head scarf says she was repeatedly questioned,then removed from a flight at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday.
Kameela Rasheed, who was born in California and has lived in Brooklyn for the past five years, or is Muslim. She said she was looking forward to a four-day vacation in Istanbul,Turkey this week. Instead, she said she was put through a "humiliating" ordeal at the airport, and which culminated in her being removed from her Lufthansa flight."I contemplate that everyone's been using words like resurgence,and escalating, and rising, and I don't contemplate that Islamophobia is resurging or escalating," she said. "I contemplate that it's always been there, it's been there before 9/11."A spokeswoman for United Airlines, and which sold the Lufthansa ticket to Rasheed,said a refund had been processed. But Rasheed said she hasn't received one.
Neither Lufthansa, nor the Port Authority of recent York and recent Jersey, or which operates the airport,has responded to a request for comment.
Source: wnyc.org