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I read the article Praying Passenger Kicked Off United Flight on the Denver Post blog written by Ken Belson which talked about how a man who was praying at the back of a United plane was kicked off the plane because he refused to fallow flight attendant orders. Reports say that the man began to pray at the back of the plane when a flight attendant came up to him and told him to go back to his seat. He did not answer and continued praying. The prayer he was praying according to two other people traveling with him was a Jewish prayer that once started could not be interrupted until finished. The flight attendant came back with a few other flight attendants and again asked the man to go back to his seat. Keeping with his beliefs he did not allow to be interrupted until he was done with his prayer. He returned to his seat after his prayer which according to an eye-witness lasted only about two and a half minutes. He was kicked off the flight without any fuss when a costumer service agent told him he would have to get off the flight with refusing to listen to flight attendants. I think this was blown way out of proportion. People should be able to fallow their religion whenever and where ever they want. I do believe that the man should wait for a better time to do his prayer but if it lasted only two and a half minutes it is not a big deal to let him finis his prayer. I think that after the attendant saw that the man had returned to his seat that he should of allowed him to stay on the plane. He still should have been told that he needs to listen to flight attendant instruction. This whole issue caused the plane to be only a few minutes late. 

The man did eventually go back to his seat, so I do not see why he should have been kicked off the plane. He did, however, pick a bad time to do this prayer. The whole prayer only lasted tow and a half minutes. It seems that the flight attendants acted too quickly and blew this whole issue out of proportion. This man should not of been kicked off the plane since he eventually did return to his seat but he should have been told that he has to listen and obey all flight attendant orders even if the doors of the plane are open. I hope that issues like these will be handled better then this one was.