The many uses of the word ‘inshallah’

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Southwest Airlines says a university student it recently removed from a California flight was ejected because another passenger believed he had made ‘threatening comments’ in a phone conversation just before take-off. Among the things that disturbed the fellow passenger was hearing the student use the word ‘inshallah’ — Arabic for ‘God willing’. Writer, journalist and attorney Wajahat Ali has been thinking a lot about this episode. Image credit: Sydney Wired/Flickr