Originally Posted by
dodo
May be he was praying for a safe travel or flight. Some people ( no matter which religion they follow) will pray before they do something. He wanted to be discreet thus praying at the back instead of doing it whilst sitting - so that his seat mates won't be alarmed (or paranoid like the mishap in YUL awhile ago)
Which goes back to my original question of why didn't he do it earlier - unless one has God Like Powers, the certainty is that you will have LOTS of time to do things at airports
It also gets back to the other question - what would you have thought if it had been a young Muslim doing that discreetly at the back of the plane.
I suspect "discreetly" would have been considered to be "suspicious behaviour" and a lot more than just being ejected by cabin staff would have happened.*
* Suggestion for TV news / newspaper, the results should be interesting