Originally Posted by MaxQ

I should know better than to write a response......but humans while clever, are seldom wise.

I think you are wrong in that many people of conscience ("liberals" if you prefer) treat different religions differently. There may be an appearance of this due to those who practice certain religions needing their safety,freedoms, and dignity protected more so than other religions. For some years now, that religion has been Islam.

In spite of what some pundits and fear mongers say, there is no discrimination or serious backlash against those who practice their Christian religion. A woman dressed in garb we would associate with,say, the Mennonites, would not be refused a full can of coke with the statement that she could use it as a weapon. She would not be told by a fellow passenger "shut the **** up, Christian."

There has been no legislation attempted to limit the number of Christian churches.
Individuals/groups have not been booted off aircraft due to speaking/praying a foreign "Christian language" and making other pax nervous.
Christian churches have not been attacked and had their members gunned down by enraged individuals. ( the incident I am thinking of was actually a Sikh temple, not an Islamic mosque, but I gathered that to the perpetrator they were close enough...brown skin, turbans(ragheads ya know) and talked funny)
I have not heard of one instance in North America where an individual was murdered because he either was, or looked, Christian.
I know of no instance where a flight was canceled due to cabin crew concerns regarding a written letter in a foreign language found in the seat pocket that looked "Christian"
Etcetera, etcetera.

In short, in the West you don't hear of many speaking in defence of other religions, particularly the dominant one, because they don't really need defending.They are not being persecuted/discriminated against due to their religion.
Muslims are.

Originally Posted by CBreezy

I'll defend anyone being discriminated against. I don't care about FBI documents that aren't used in a court of law. Just because someone has an FBI file, it doesn't mean giving them a can of coke is a threat to national security. There is no policy at any airline or any documented threat to air crew related to Coke Zero. Even if she had a burning American flag pin, it isn't any reason to deny her service that is afforded to all other paying passengers. I don't care if she is a Jihadist, a Priest kid toucher, or a cop killer. She was not posing a threat to the a/c nor is tweeting to United something about poor service a very "death to America" thing to do.

Stop trying to spin this as a Christian versus Muslim debate. This is about some poorly informed and possibly bigoted FA denying service based on some poorly conceived belief that a Muslim was going to use a can of soda to break through the cockpit door. She had no knowledge of any FBI documents and even those documents are irrelevant. Speaking at a conference with possible ties to radical Islam does not make you a terrorist nor does it give you the right to deny service. You are not the judge or jury.