+1 dordas23
Fascinating. Something like this happened a couple years ago, sans Middle Eastern "Allah is great" part. Unruly guy on a plane insists on vaping after being asked not to. Becomes loud and angry, possibly violent, and they turned the plan around. Never heard anything more about him or if he was charged with anything. I suspected he was a plant. I suspect this one is too. The fact that some media clearly made more of a deal about the ecig than the "Allah is great" part, and even ignored that, tells me this was a set up.
In the previous example of this, also discussed here on ECF, someone that was clearly a troll suddenly came onto the scene in that thread stating that he would have also become violent, that they had no right to deny him his God-given right to vape where ever he wanted, clearly trying to rev people up. After that he vanished and I never saw he again on ECF. Other long-term vets might recall this. I think it was around January 2010.
Fact: they can and will try anything to put ecigs in a negative light. This Allah guy might well have simply been crazy, and this was real, but I am very suspicious. I doubt we will ever know who he was, even though there is a flight list, and screaming about Allah to the point of people holding you down and turning a flight around would generally get you publicly identified. I also expect he has been released, and there will be no follow up.
