Was the Star of a New Movie About Profiling, Profiled?

As candidate for irony of the year award, note this news item wherein Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan

was detained Friday by U.S. immigration officials at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey because his name matched with some names on a computer alert list. The actor is in the U.S. to promote a new film, “My Name is Khan,” which is about racial profiling of Muslims after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Read the full account here.

Mary L. G. Theroux is Chairman and Chief Executive of the Independent Institute.
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