Traveling While Muslim: The Case of the Exploding Chocolate

[left-of-center2012]

On Aug. 6, I landed on UA919 from Heathrow to Dulles wearing my Ahmadiyya Muslim Community logo-embroidered press jacket. I cleared passport control with my Global Entry card, and called an Uber as I headed for the exit.

That’s when Customs and Border Protection, as one of the officers I encountered put it, “randomly selected” me for additional screening. What I experienced next involved harassment, threats of further interrogation, allegations that I was non-compliant and breaking the law, an attempt to confiscate my travel documents and childish stalling tactics — all courtesy of officials hired to protect Americans like me.

A middle-aged white woman in a ponytail singled me out of the crowd.
“Hi sir, can I check your passport?” she asked.
I took a deep breath and quietly handed her my passport.
“OK sir, you’ve been randomly selected. Follow me.”

Full story at:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/11/traveling-while-muslim-the-case-of-the-exploding-chocolate-219347

[MineralMan]

1. Randomly Selected for Being Muslim and for Further Harrassment

And that's the fact. It's a fun game for those tin-badge authorities. They do it because they can, even though they know they have no grounds for it.

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[CrispyQ]

3. Positions of power

seem to attract the exact types of people who should never be in power.