Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan held at Newark Airport; claims racial profiling due to Muslim name

[marmar]

from the NY Daily News:




Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan held at Newark Airport; claims racial profiling due to Muslim name

BY Larry Mcshane
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Updated Saturday, August 15th 2009, 6:25 PM




This never happened to Schwarzenegger.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who plays a Muslim mistaken for a terrorist in his latest film, says he was racially profiled at Newark Airport and detained for two hours on Friday.

The 43-year-old "Tom Cruise of India" - cited last year by Newsweek as one of the world's 50 most influential men - was released only after Indian diplomats intervened.

"I was really being hassled, perhaps because of my name being Khan," the international box office sensation charged Saturday in a text message to reporters.

"These guys wouldn't let me through."

Khan, who has appeared in more than 70 films, said he was waiting for his luggage Friday when his name popped up on a computer alert list. Security then pulled him aside.

"Absolutely uncalled for, I think," Khan said. "I felt angry and humiliated." .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/08/15/2009-08-15_shah_rukh_khan_.html

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1. God help them if someone named "Singh" ever is associated with a terror group.

I know only a few dozen Punjabis, and even I know two or three sets of people with the exact same name.

[MrScorpio]

2. Some of the comments are pretty disgusting

Jeez

[Ian David]

3. Duplicate. See prior thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6312130

KHAN!!!!