bluesfan
Your contributions, on this and on other threads, are very welcome. If only more locals would share your views, such incidents would hardly happen no more.
Biased views are omnipresent, but they get consolidated when enduring biased treatment or blatantly transparent double standards. The sad truth in this region is, that the local population seems to uphold this and find it absolutely justified. Although the same people when traveling or doing business abroad cry very distinctly for equal treatment. If the shameful actors had been locals, do you think they would have spent only one moment in jail? As a player on the international scene, you have to adopt international values. I acknowledge this might be a rubber standard, but most of the civilized world works just fine with that. In the USA they established biased rules to enhance national security. Such discrimination gets bashed all around the world, and rightfully so. Now another region gets bashed for some other biased treatment, rightfully again. Slowly established “soft rules” around the world do not accept unruly behavior on board of airlines. They however accept drinking alcohol. If this is not to be tolerated in some parts of the world, so be it, but then accept that they do not deserve to be considered part of the civilized international community and that the media will pick this up just as they pick up the dismal US immigration attitude.
If you want to eliminate prejudice and stigmatisms, the easiest way is to treat everybody the same, apply the same rules, standards and contracts to everyone.
Not only for passengers, but for employees as well.