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Nigerians Cry “Discrimination” At New Airline Security Measures



Jan 4, 2010 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong

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(AFP) Nigeria has criticised new security measures for passengers flying to and from the United States as unfair and said they amounted to discrimination against 150 million people.

The US government has announced that travellers from 14 countries, including Nigeria, are to be subjected to extra checks including body pat-downs, after a young Nigerian was accused of trying to blow up a US jet on Christmas Day.

But Nigeria Information Minister Dora Akunyili said that Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, did not have a history of terrorism and such a move could not be justified.

“It is unfair to include Nigeria on the US list for tighter screening because Nigerians do not have terrorist tendencies,” Ms Akunyili said.

“It is unfair to discriminate against over 150 million people because of the behaviour of one person.”

A 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has been accused of trying to trigger an explosion on the Northwest Airlines plane with chemicals which had been stitched into his underwear.

“Abdulmutallab’s behaviour is not reflective of Nigerians and should therefore not be used as a yardstick to judge all Nigerians,” Ms Akunyili said.

“He was not influenced in Nigeria. He was not recruited or trained in Nigeria. He was not supported whatsoever in Nigeria.”

Prosecutors say that Abdulmutallab tried to carry out the attack after undergoing training by Yemen-based militants who have said they were behind the plot.


  • John454

    Anfair?…maybe, does it work?…YES.

    I eyeball every brown person in public. And if they even hint of doing something out of the norm I’m tap dancing on their windpipe.

    • http://www.urbandumpsterdiver.wordpress.com Annie Oakley

      F’ng A John. It’s the only way to react. :twisted:

      Dancing on their windpipe. Oh I love that one. I’ve gotta remember that one.

      Eyeballing brown people in public? I do the same.

  • Zeek

    Fuck ‘em. Let ‘em get their own airline. I’m sure there’s money left in the stimulus for that. They could lay strips of shit down the aisles to keep the flies off the stewardesses.

  • http://www.dirtydozensbunker.com Sanders

    Boo-hoo. My heart bleeds for them.

  • GRIZZ

    Well……what is the “yardstick” we are supposed to
    judge you people by?
    Maybe the fatherless birth rate.
    How about Nigerias contributions to the world?
    Maybe the fact that you sell your people into slavery?
    How about the cases of aids infected rape?
    More?

  • cold soldier

    What are the Niggerians crying about now :?: :!:

    • DC

      They’d cry if you hung em with an old rope! :lol:

  • Bobby E

    They can always go home … we’re not holding them here.

    • Indy

      Good advise for every last muslim in the country. Just go home. Submit your complaints to your own government.

  • Right Wing Witch

    Correct me if I’m wrong – but the allegation that Nigeria has no terrorism problem is full of shit.

    The last time I checked, Nigeria has had an ongoing Islamist insurgency problem for decades – just like many of the failed or failing nation-states in West Africa. How many times in the last few years have oil facilities and oil company personnel been targeted by “revolutionary of the week”?

    Anyone here ever see that Monty-Pythonesque “Erik the Viking”? It sounds to me like the ‘bamster and his ilk are singing “TAY-TUM” as the island sinks under them.

    Ever since everything got all double-plus good and the evil-bad GWOT was banished with whatever Newspeak idea they came up with following the annointing of the holy ‘bamster-child – arrgh – my brain hurts. :mad:

    All I can see is the ‘bamster as the character played by Terry Jones saying “this is not happening” as the water closes over his head.