Ironic Story of the Day: Being stopped at the airport because your last name is Khan while being here promoting a film about racial profiling in the US called "My Name is Khan." That is what happened to international star Shah Rukh Khan. The Guardian reports:
Shah Rukh Khan, India's most popular actor, was held at Liberty International airport in Newark on Saturday as he tried to enter the United States. He says he was quizzed for two hours by a US official who apparently had no idea that Khan was one of the world’s most famous men.
Khan’s next film, My Name is Khan, is about an innocent Muslim’s experiences of being mistakenly identified as a terrorist in the United States in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In it, the actor plays a man with Asperger’s syndrome, whose behaviour – and ethnicity – raises the suspicions of the US authorities. The fictional Khan then sets off on a trip across the US to find President Obama and persuade him that he is not a terrorist.
The suggestion that the real Khan, who was named one of the world’s 50 most influential men by Newsweek magazine this year, fell victim to the same kind of racial profiling depicted in the film has met with outrage in India.
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The incident made headlines in India
because he is star of the Bollywood and another country arrested him over his surname.
That's terrible, when will we put a stop to this nonsense. Yes, I understand that we need to protect our country, but if he says he's a STAR, then let him go by w/o any hassles. What will he think of we as Americans?
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