sentences:  Prosser wrote that "Abdul" should not be allowed to fly, and should instead "go ride a camel".It subsequently emerged that Prosser's column was written after a pocket-knife he was carrying had been confiscated by airport security.NZ First leader Winston Peters initially said that he would not apologise for Prosser's conduct, that he had been writing in his capacity as a columnist, as opposed to an MP, that Prosser stood by his statements, and that he had spoken to Prosser about the article as the article "lacked balance".