"UC Berkeley student removed from Southwest flight after speaking Arabic on plane", 18 Apr 2016

Earlier this month, Khairuldeen Makhzoomi found himself at a gathering with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon…The University of California at Berkeley senior…recounted...in a phone interview…, he stood up to ask the secretary general about…militia groups fighting against the Islamic State…[T]he next day,…the 26-year-old…had just settled into his seat on a Southwest Airlines flight when he pulled out his cellphone to call his uncle in Baghdad…He was speaking into the phone in Arabic when he noticed that the woman in the seat in front of him…staring…Shortly after…, he said a Southwest employee informed him, “Sir, you need to step out of the plane right now.”…Southwest wrote in an email statement…that its “crew made the decision to investigate a passenger report of potentially threatening comments overheard onboard our aircraft…” “We regret any less than positive experience a Customer has on Southwest,” the statement said.