Plane diverted by tefillin

Northstarmom
Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:11:14 +0000

“Back to my original point though…if we can find a Barbie with teffilin on-line, why couldn’t the crew/ pilots confirm what teffillin was and how it is used from the air, before deciding to land the plane?”

The guy’s behavior still was strange. I’ve ridden lots of planes, and haven’t seen someone attach themselves to triangular objects and then start some kind of ritual.

Even if it were confirmed that the objects were tefillin (and how exactly would that be confirmed – thoroughly physically examined – without potentially endangering people?), there are terrorists who go through prayer rituals before performing their terrorist actions.

I know that we haven’t had Jewish terrorists as far as I can remember, but anything is possible including having a terrorist who’s not Jewish impersonate a Jewish person.

If a person pulled out a prayer rug and started bowing and praying on a plane, would knowing that can be part of Muslim’s daily prayer rituals be reassuring to you?