Shahrukh Khan, the King of Bollywood and the heartthrob of audiences worldwide, was detained for questioning at the Newark Airport in Newark, United States. If sources are to be believed, he was detained because he has a muslim lastname "Khan".
I am not sure what the Immigration officials were thinking, but to detain a person who is labeled as one of the 50 most influential persons in the world, by a magazine published in the United States is definitely a mistake.
What if Tom Cruise was to visit India, and he would be questioned in the same way by an Indian Immigration Official? Not only would it make Americans angry, but Indian fans would be really unhappy as well.
"I was really taken aback," Khan told CNN-IBN television station, and he has every right to be. If any star or entertainer of the stature of Shahrukh Khan is detained and questioned for hours with the silly logic of a muslim name, people who hired these officials need to look at the mistakes they made.
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