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7 Things To Know About Muslim Delta Storyteller Adam Saleh

By  Aaron Bandler
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Muslim YouTube star and known prankster Adam Saleh captured headlines when he posted videos claiming that he and his friends were kicked off a Delta Airlines flight for simply speaking Arabic. However, many are questioning Saleh’s account of the incident and believe that the whole thing is a hoax. Saleh and his friends are insisting that it’s real.

Here are seven things you need to know about Saleh.

1. Saleh has pulled off pranks that cross the line.

In the first part of the video, Saleh shouts Allahu Akbar twice at a kid and makes a hand motion that mimics a stabbing–which would naturally cause the kid to cry. In the second part, Saleh starts pushing a black man and says, “Say one more thing, n***a” repeatedly.

2. Saleh orchestrated a stop-and-frisk hoax in 2014. Saleh and video producer Sheikh Akbar released a video at the time showing the two men loudly arguing with each other near a police officer, who seemed to ignore them. When the two men walked by the same officer “wearing keffiyeh scarves and traditional long shirts,” the officer proceedd to push “them against a wall and searches them for weapons,” according to the Huffington Post. The video was paraded around by organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to highlight the supposed racial profiling that Muslims endure on a regular basis.

There was one problem: the video was fake.

“This video is a Dramatization of previous events that occurred with us in our tradition clothing while filming in NYC,” Saleh and Akbar later wrote in the video’s description. “This video is not against the NYPD, it’s just an example of what we have to go through sometimes when filming in NYC. This is to raise awareness for Racial Profiling.”

Their manager was not aware that the video was fake. CAIR even demanded an apology, although the organization’s New York director said that “the video illustrates the very real discrimination that Muslims in New York often face at the hands of the NYPD.” In other words, the fake but accurate excuse.

3. Saleh also released a video that purportedly showed him being flown from Melbourne to Sydney, Australia in a suitcase. This was also a hoax. The video shows Saleh being stuffed into a suitcase that is seen going down a conveyor belt, the suitcase comes out on the other end and Saleh pops out. Saleh can also be seen saying while supposedly in the suitcase, “I am so scared, I don’t know if I’m going to survive.”

However, the Melbourne Airport’s security video proved that Saleh boarded the flight with his friends and was not in a suitcase. A spokesperson from Tigerair also pointed out that it would have been impossible for Saleh to have been on the flight in the suitcase to begin with, given that the size of the suitcase he was supposedly in would have been stopped by the airport staff. If Saleh had somehow been on the flight in the suitcase, he would have frozen to death due to the decline in temperature that would have occurred.

Saleh’s manager tried to downplay the stunt as good fun, but the Melbourne Airport was not amused.

“While this video is clearly a publicity stunt, it promotes behaviours that are dangerous and life threatening,” the airport told news.com.au. “Airport safety and security are serious matters, and not appropriate targets for humour.”

4. Saleh is a 9/11 truther. Saleh has sent out numerous tweets promoting bizarre conspiracy theories about 9/11 being an inside job as well as distasteful jokes about the horrific day, via Twitchy:

5. Saleh has also tweeted sympathy for the Boston Bomber. The tweet has since been deleted, but the Internet is forever:

“Jahar” is a reference to Dhozkar Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers involved in the bombing who was sentenced to death for his heinous act of terror. The bombing killed three people and injuring over 260 others.

6. Saleh is also anti-Israel.

This is a truly asinine tweet since Palestine has never existed as a country.

7. Saleh’s Delta Airlines video appears to be yet another hoax. Two people who were on the flight told a different story on social media:

“The YouTube guy was trying to get his friend to shout something in Arabic which he did a total of 4 times,” one person wrote alongside a picture of their plane ticket. “A couple of passengers after the second time said they were making themselves and their young children uncomfortable and could they shut up.”

Another shared their boyfriend’s account of the same episode to Facebook.

“The entire thing was planned. He wasn’t on the phone with his mom speaking in Arabic,” Roderick J. Edens wrote, also sharing a snap of a plane ticket. “He and his friends were shouting in Arabic with their fists balled up in the air. They were removed from the plane for being loud and disruptive.”

CBS News interviewed some passengers on the flight–some felt that it seemed staged, one said that it looked like Saleh was simply saying a prayer and someone reported it. However, Delta Airlines spokeswoman Morgan Durant basically confirmed that Saleh was disrupting the flight..

“The customers who were removed sought to disrupt the cabin with provocative behavior, including shouting,” Durant said in a statement to the New York Daily News. “This type of conduct is not welcome on any Delta flight.”

Legal Insurrection’s Aleister has speculated that Saleh pulled off this stunt to promote his upcoming Middle East tour based on these tweets:

Given Saleh’s penchant for hoaxes and immature tweets and actions, Aleister’s theory seems plausible.

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