Talbot - //Because the argument was not about the music, it merely started there, but that is not where it finished.
eh?
If it started there then it was about the music ot whatever drivel was being broadcast. //
I disagree.
From what we are told, the passenger was listening to some religious music playing quietly on his phone. He was asked by the driver to turn it down / off, and he complied. That was the beginning and the end of the argument in terms of the music - the content should not be an issue, merely the volume and potential disturbance to the passengers and the driver - no-one would argue with that.
But - the driver then decided he wanted to passenger to leave the bus.
It would be difficult, being on the receiving end of such a request, to conclude that the request was anything but ethnically motivated, and unreasonable, and the passenger rightly protested.
So no, it was not about the music being broadcast, because that was turned off - it was about the driver's unwillingness to have the passenger continue his journey, for reasons which I believe to prejudice, and that is not acceptable.