TSA faces the wrath of Khan
Bollywood super star Shah Rukh Khan was held up at Newark Airport Saturday for more than two hours — in a case he’s calling racial profiling, according to the Daily News. We’d call it ignorance with a plastic badge.
SRK, as newspapers know the star in India, has been in more than 70 films and one of the most popular and influential people in the country with the second largest population in the world. The 44-year-old actor was in the U.S. to promote his new film, “My Name is Khan” a movie about how Muslims were treated at airport security after 9/11. We’re not even going to point out the irony.
He’s also starred in a few great movies such as Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Ghan and A Match Made by God.
Khan says he was angered and humiliated during the delay — but how can you blame TSA? These guys, who probably watch very few foreign films, often mistake well tanned tourists flying out of Jamaica terrorist suspects too and the only Indians they know play in Cleveland.
Our sympathies go out to Khan — no one likes a hassle at a security check point, much less an overweight TSA agent pawing our underwear with their sweaty mitts.
Hopefully, we’re treated better when we go to India — a country definitely on our list of places to visit in 2010.
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