I Love Double Standards!
Recently, there was a news story about six Muslim imams removed from a flight. The group began to recite evening prayers prior to take off, and that (understandably) made many people on the flight very nervous. So the imams were asked to stop, but they refused. So they were asked to step off the plane. They also refused. So the flight crew and air marshals were forced to evacuate the plane and re-screen everyone on board, thus delaying take-off by three hours.
Jimmy Akin already responded here. I agree with his view, but I wanted to highlight this statement in particular:
If I were in Saudi Arabia and made open displays of my Catholicism–behavior that would be entirely normal here in America–I would get a much, much worse reaction than what you guys got on the plane–and Saudi Arabia hasn’t even been attacked by Americans. On the contrary, it’s been defended by them.
Jimmy understates their reaction, of course. Jimmy would likely face prison or death if he was openly Catholic in their country. Now the “poor” imams are crying that they’ve been victimized here (never mind their behavior delayed a sizeable group of a people for three hours), when they would have been the first to order a Christian’s death in their country of origin for doing the exact same thing.
What a double standard!
