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Not every Khan nor every muslim is detained by the immigration authorities. We don't know what his full name is in the passport. Maybe his name matches with another person and that name is in the watch list.
Maybe thats the reason he is questioned at the airports. Lets face it, USA is paranoid after what happened in the past and they do go overboard with their security measures. Its not their fault if other countries like India are lax with their security measures. Just bcoz India doesn't bother to scrutinize the foreign celebs doesn't meant USA too has to extend the same courtesy to Indian celebs.They are going by whats in the rule book. In a way it does make sense and it does give public a sense of security that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing.People do express their displeasure bcoz of the inconvenience caused, even a common man does complain. SRK too did and he does have a right to express his displeasure... Of course people will judge him, they may find his complaining more like whining after all he is not a common man here who has to travel in economy class 24 hrs to get to America.Anyways, he is justified in expressing his displeasure and people too have every right to judge him.Or maybe he was questioned bcoz some bollywood stars and other artists are under scrutiny bcoz of financial transactions like illegal cash payments some of them get thru shady organizers and promoters.Whatever be the reason, this looks more like secondary inspection. As usual the media exaggerates and uses words like detention and hypes the whole episode.Whats more annoying here is the Indian Govt getting involved in this. He was visiting the country on a private visit and not representing the Indian Govt in any way... Why are they getting so hyper abt it and turning it into an international crisis. Ridiculous.Good they are getting a backlash bcoz of this. There are so many hard pressing issues in the country and all they are bothered is abt the inconvenience caused to a celeb who travels in a private jet and ends up getting questioned for an hour and a half and coincidently the celeb involved is a muslim. The govt (Congress) is milking it now, just making sure they are pleasing their vote bank... Everyone has their own agenda... 😆
I agree in some part to what you say about certain names being on a watch list, but what gets my goat is even after the first time around, when you verify someone as not being a threat, wouldn't there be an addendum to whatever the immigration officers can see on their database, so it doesn't keep happening over and over... that's just ridiculous!!. The fact that they were apologetic right away after it happened is very telling in my book. Someone screwed up and perhaps this incident would not have even happened. I don't really have an opinion about the Indian govt and their vote bank issues, maybe it's an excuse to milk this for whatever they want, but bottom line is SRK has every right to be pissed and complain in my opinion...
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