JetBlue? More like JetPoo

JetBlue Airways is apologising for a computer glitch it blames for a Muslim family being told their 18-month-old daughter was on a government no-fly list. The parents, who reportedly would not disclose their last names for fear of repercussions, and their infant, identified only as Riyanna, had boarded JetBlue Flight 510 from Fort Lauderdale to Newark on Tuesday evening when they say an airline employee asked them to get off the plane. The family is of Middle Eastern descent and the mother wears a headscarf, but they say they are U.S. citizens and have lived in New Jersey all of their lives. And besides, TSA didn't even have their child's name on the no-fly list. The family were put on display like a circus act simply because the child's mother wears a hijab. This is just as ignorant and prejudiced as saying that homosexuals are responsible for spreading HIV. Elsewhere in Florida, a judge sentenced a Jacksonville woman to 20 years in prison yesterday for firing a warning shot in an effort to scare off her abusive husband. Marissa Alexander unsuccessfully tried to use Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law to derail the prosecution, but a jury convicted her of aggravated assault back in March after just 12 minutes of deliberation. The case, which was prosecuted by the same state attorney who is handling the Trayvon Martin case, has gained the attention of civil rights leaders who say the African-American woman was persecuted because of her race.