Thursday, April 14, 2011

"She was dressed in Muslim garb & just before we were about to take off, she started mumbling something in an Arabian or Talibani-sounding language "

Can this happen in America? What do you think?
" Sister Cora-Ann, a Catholic nun from the Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Dayton, Ohio got the surprise of her life yesterday, when she was asked to leave the plane she had just boarded at the Omaha International Airport. “I had just sat down in my seat, and started to thank God for our blessings and recite a prayer in Latin”, she recalled, when one of the passengers sitting next to me called the flight attendant. The passenger was Elizabeth Bennet, who later stated: “It is not that we were prejudiced, but she did seem very suspicious. She was dressed in Muslim garb and just before we were about to take off, she started mumbling something in an Arabian or Talibani-sounding language. What was I supposed to do?” Damien Thorn was a passenger seated in the adjacent row and said: “I knew there was something sinister about her, the moment she stepped into the plane. She was wearing those burqa clothes that you see the Iranian women wearing, and she only had a very small carry-on bag.” The flight attendant responded to the call and asked Sister Cora-Ann for her name, boarding pass and a photo ID.
Blanche Dubois was another passenger sitting close to Sister Cora-Ann and explained: “Once I heard that her name sounded like Koran, I got worried. That does not mean that there is anything wrong with me, does it? I just did not want to die. I was so scared, that I just yelled out her name to all passengers.” Mr. Okonkwo was a passenger seated a few rows behind and stated: “Once we all heard that the passenger’s name was Koran, things started falling apart.” Frodo Baggins, a frequent traveler, said he had heard that Muslims do not eat beef. “I did not think that she was Muslim, and to help her out, I took out some of my beef jerky and asked the lady to eat it to prove that she was not a Muslim.”
However, Sister Cora-Ann politely refused the beef jerky and reminded the other passengers that it was the time of Lent, during which Catholics often abstain from eating meat. The unrest in the plane kept growing, because most passengers were now convinced that Sister Cora-Ann was indeed Muslim and they demanded that Sister Cora-Ann leave the plane. “I did not want to cause my fellow humans any distress, so I left the plane”, she said.
“We were so happy that we could continue our journey”, said Frodo Baggins. “Once she de-boarded, it felt like a huge burden was lifted from us.”..."

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes it could but in this instance it is all to believable satire.

Elizabeth Bennet - Jane Austen's "Pride and prejudice" - good choice but the author should have included a quote from Elinor Dashwood about how it was obvious for all to see that she was a nun.

Blanche Dubois - character from "A Streetcar named Desire," by Tennessee Williams

Damien Thorn - The Omen

Okonkwo - protagonist of Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart".

Frodo Baggins - I don't know which book he is a character in but the name sounds familiar.

Abdullah Abdullah - the ex-Foreign Minister of Afghanistan was the only reference I could think off.

Anonymous said...

Sorry, but this is obviously satire. I kind of can't believe both and Abu Khalil took this at face value.

G, M, Z, or B said...

of course it is ... hence my question: could it happen ...

Anonymous said...

Sorry, I misunderstood your lead-in, then. (Commenter 2)

Anonymous said...

Frodo Baggins is the hobbit protagonist of The Lord of The Rings.