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clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next to male passengers they didn't know. The dispute - in which the three princesses from the ultra-conservative Qatar royal family demanded segregated seating - left the London-bound plane delayed on a baking Italian runway for nearly three hours. Furious passengers whistled and clapped as the row intensified before the captain eventually ordered the women to be escorted off the plane. Cabin crew tried to rearrange the seats but passengers travelling together refused to give up their allotted places. The captain tried to mediate but after more than two and a half hours of wrangling he ordered the bulk of their royal party off the plane.

And kudos to the passengers for holding firm. A minor victory against both Islamist supremacy and the horsehsh*t pretense called royalty. If it was a western royal family the same should have happened -- although in that case the excuse would have been "elbow room" or something similarly concocted...