yesterday SRK (one of the biggest Indian Movie star) was being retained (or was it detained?) at Newark Airport for 1-2 hrs. report says SRK felt "angry and humiliated", the whole of his community (the Hindi film community) is angry and have come out openly to comment that they are "shocked", "this is humiliation", "this is racism", and shahrukh himself says it happened because his name is "khan", a muslim last name. One of the actor from Hindi film industry says this is how they (i think the actor meant America) is giving birth to new terrorists.
Now, more than what SRK went through, it is the people's reaction and their comments which brings up a protest kind of atmosphere and makes even a normal person feel very very very bad about whatever happened and somewhere deep in the heart most of them who are attached to the person being reportedly "humiliated" feel like lashing back at the officials, demand an explanation or may be subject them to something similiar or teach them a lesson. And teaching them a lesson is what terrorists do. So, if I had to reply to the actor who commented on America giving birth to new terrorists, my reply would be more than the act of the Newark Airport official it is your kind-of-reactions that will create more terrorists. Also that is exactly what most of the religious leaders do - they make the innocent youth feel bad and convince them to take the wrong path. So for heaven sake please shut-up !
But then a very valid question from any muslim could be why us ? why only a khan or a mohammed and why not a peter or a anderson or even a srinivasan ? There is surely no answer to this now, it is like a chicken and egg story, it is difficult to say what followed what ! Let the security do their Job, a day will come when they will not stop a khan or a mohammed for interrogation and that is mostly likely to happen only when the religious leaders shut their ...
