UK flight refuses passenger over ‘prayer ‘message on phone
A British national was forced out of a plane after a fellow passenger found a text message on his mobile phone about prayers and reported him as a security threat.
Armed police at London’s Luton airport removed the man from the easyJet flight to Amsterdam by force on Thursday.
Laolu Opebiyi, 40 said that security personnel forced him to hand over his phone and password to establish his innocence. He acknowledged the prayer message saying he was simply trying to arrange a conference call prayers with his friends using WhatsApp.
Opebiyi was cleared following brief questioning by the security but the pilot refused to allow him back on to the flight. He subsequently waited more than three hours to catch the next flight.
Opebiyi who is a Nigerian-born Christian accused the passenger next to him of falsely raging the alarm assuming that he was a Muslim and possibly a "terrorist".
“That guy doesn’t know me and within two minutes he’s judging me,” he told the Guardian. “Even if I was a Muslim, it was pretty unfair the way I was treated. I don’t think anyone, irrespective of their religion should be treated in such a way”.
Opebiyi, a business analyst, called the whole incident a kind of "bigotry and irrational fear.”
“Someone felt I was a terrorist because they saw the word ‘prayer’ on my phone and now I stand in uncertainty about my freedom of movement in and out of the United Kingdom,” he said.
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