{"id":5901,"date":"2009-08-15T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T19:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5901"},"modified":"2009-08-15T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T16:45:52","slug":"shah_rukh_khan_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/shah_rukh_khan_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Shah Rukh Khan Detained at Newark Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/005891.html#more\">last week when I mentioned<\/a> that Shah Rukh Khan was starring in <em>My Name is Khan<\/em>, a movie about a Muslim man detained by U.S. authorities on suspicion of terrorism? Turns out the truth isn&#8217;t that far from fiction.<\/p>\n\n<p>Khan revealed he was held at Newark Airport yesterday for two hours by security.<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;I was really being hassled, perhaps because of my name being Khan,&#8221; actor Shah Rukh Khan charged Saturday, a day after he was detained for two hours.\n\n&#8220;These guys wouldn&#8217;t let me through.&#8221;\n\nThe 43-year-old &#8220;King of Bollywood&#8221; said he was waiting for his bags Friday when security pulled him aside after his name popped up on a computer screen.\n\n&#8220;I was really taken aback,&#8221; he told an Indian television station.\n\n&#8220;I did not want to say anything just in case they took everything wrong, because I am a little worried about Americans because they do have this issue when your name is Muslim.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/gossip\/2009\/08\/15\/2009-08-15_shah_rukh_khan_.html\">Link<\/a>.]<\/p>\n\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/005900.html#more\"> case of mistaken identity<\/a>? Or just the usual profiling? When my family travels, they factor in an extra few hours because it&#8217;s inevitable that one of my brothers, cousins or uncles is going to be pulled to the side and questioned. So it&#8217;s not really surprising to hear that Bollywood stars aren&#8217;t immune from such treatment.<\/p>\n\n<p>Better win that Oscar, SRK. Maybe it&#8217;ll get you through security faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So remember last week when I mentioned that Shah Rukh Khan was starring in My Name is Khan, a movie about a Muslim man detained by U.S. authorities on suspicion of terrorism? Turns out the truth isn&#8217;t that far from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/15\/shah_rukh_khan_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}