August 18, 2009

By Arsalan Iftikhar
True/Slant Contributor

As a young six-foot-four brown Muslim male who also happens to be a global media ‘talking head’ on international television, suffice it to say that you can rest assured that I could probably write a book-and-a-half on our current airport profiling phenomenon of ‘flying while brown’ since September 11, 2001.

Having said that, I must admit that this recent CNN story about Bollywood film star Shah Rukh Khan elicited a groaned chuckle after reading about his own personal ‘flying while brown’ airline profiling moment @ Newark International Airport in New Jersey.

First of all, for anyone who has ever even heard of Bollywood should know that this recent case would be the moral equivalent of pulling Tom Hanks (or Tom Cruise) from a Hollywood-bound airline flight from Newark.

Read the rest of Arsalan’s column HERE…