A British Muslim man has spoken of his “frustration and anger” after his family was stopped from flying out to a dream holiday to Disneyland. The airline also told the family that the almost $13,500 paid for their flights would not be refunded.
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“So they took our passports, he came back later for 10 or 15 minutes and said that we are not permitted to board the plane, there is a problem”, Mr Mahmood said.
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The statement noted that there are more than 60 grounds for inadmissibility, including those related to health, prior criminal convictions, security reasons, and immigration violations.
One of the family members on the trip, Mohammad Tariq Mahmood, said his visa was revoked because Americans believe every Muslim poses a threat.
“Online and offline discussions reverberate with the growing fear that UK Muslims are being “trumped” – that widespread condemnation of Donald Trump’s call for no Muslim to be allowed into America contrasts with what is going on in practice”, she said.
“If the embassy won’t answer to the family’s MP, it should answer to their prime minister and he to us about what he is doing to ensure that no British citizen is being discriminated against for their faith on our shores”. Their bags were removed from the plane, and they were ordered to return all the duty-free goods they had purchased, and then escorted from the airport.
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But it has emerged a Facebook page claiming links to the Taliban and al-Qaida was set up by someone who has lived at the family’s postal address. Maybe America has started changing after Donald Trump said Muslims should be banned. Two British brothers were accompanying their nine children to the amusement park in the United States, but were told by a U.S. official at London’s Gatwick airport that their permission to fly had been revoked. He said UK Border officials had informed them at the departure lounge that they were not allowed to board.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said in a statement issued in London: “The religion, faith, or spiritual beliefs of an worldwide traveller are not determining factors about his/her admissibility into the U.S”.
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Prime Minister Cameron called those remarks “divisive and wrong”. It does not win the hearts and minds of people, it turns them off. I am amazed how irrational these processes are but does U.S. care about what you and I think?
