Posted on 08/16/2009 5:32:35 PM PDT by pillut48
The Indian government said Sunday the United States must explain why Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan was questioned at a New York airport, after the actor suggested he was singled out as a Muslim.
Fellow Bollywood stars sprang to Khan's defence at the weekend and told of their experiences at the hands of US immigration officials.
Irrfan Khan, who played the police inspector in last year's hit film Slumdog Millionaire, said that US screening staff seemed "threatened by any Muslim passport".
"I can understand America's need for caution after 9/11 but they also need to be a little more thoughtful about their methods," he said, adding he had been detained three times for questioning in various parts of the world.
Neil Nitin Mukesh said he had been detained in New York by an officer who appeared to believe he was too fair-skinned to be Indian and may have a false passport.
Shahrukh Khan's troubles were "yet another example of American paranoia post-9/11", director Kabir Khan said. "It saddens me to say this but I don't think the US will ever be cured of Islamophobia."
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I know a cure
Mighta been a mistake, in retrospect to give an Academy Award to the highly overrated SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, a very confused and irritating film. It seems to have emboldened these leading lights of the Indian Film Industry, who have already adjudged most of us outside Hollywood as being the racists Henry Louis Gates thinks we are.
Excuse me Mr. Bollywood, here in America we don’t operate under a caste system...if you are called out by airport security, do what we all do...shut up, spread your legs and seethe in private. I’ve gone through what you’ve gone through and I don’t look anything like the men who drove planes into the World Trade Center. DEAL WITH IT. I swear, if we apologize for this, I will be livid.
If anyone apologizes for this, I think every American should demand an apology as well.
I think the newly rich American Indians (Elephant as opposed to the American Plains), are on the whole the most obnoxiously materialisitc of any ethnic group.
I’ve seen doctors who come here from poor villages in India, and instead of being humble, their offspring are spoiled rotten.
Bollywood? AS far as I’m concerned you people ingrates...
HOw dare you complain about anything that this country has to offer....
If you don’t like it, take you curry smelling bodies back to India....
I wonder if HolyO WILL apologize, seeing that they are burning him in effigy? LOLOL!!! :-)
“Kumbayah, my Lord! Kumbayah!!”
“It saddens me to say this but I don’t think the US will ever be cured of Islamophobia.”
He says this like there’s something wrong with that.
As a matter of fact, many Indians are asking why our own security can't stand up to these over-rated pompous asses. And this has been confirmed by a police superintendent interviewed on TV who said he was envious that American security could do their job without fear or favour.
Will the Obama admin. cancel his American visa? That'll really get his attention.
I would politely disagree. Let me give you an example.
I'm in Afghanistan with the Army and have been here since November. The other night I had "radio watch" so I decided I would watch a movie on my laptop. One of my interpreters (a local Afghan guy) was with me, so I decided to watch Charlie Wilson's War since it was about Afghanistan and I thought my "terp" would like it.
I told my terp that Tom Hanks was one of the biggest, if not the biggest American movie star. He had never heard of him.
There were some Bollywood actors in the movie and he immediately recognized them.
The only American movies and actors a lot of the rest of the world has heard of are Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Action movies are popular overseas. But they love Bollywood!
Again, just my experience here in Afghanistan!
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