Mr Mahmood said he and his family – two brothers and their nine children – were told nothing except that they were not allowed to travel to the United States despite having previously obtained clearance.
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A British man who was stopped along with 10 other members of his family from boarding a flight to the U.S. said on Wednesday he believed his family had been singled out because they were Muslim.
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“Because I have a beard and sometimes wear Islamic dress, I get stopped and asked questions”, Mahmood told British media, adding that his family was also unable to get a refund for the flights.
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The family’s MP, Stella Creasy, wrote to David Cameron asking him to intervene after she had hit a “brick wall” in trying to obtain information from U.S. officials.
Creasy told the prime minister there is “growing fear” among British Muslims that aspects of Trump’s plans are coming into practice even though they have been widely condemned.
The allegation was made after a British father whose family holiday to Disneyland in the USA was cancelled at the last minute by border officials spoke of their “devastation”.
The family, from her Walthamstow constituency in northeast London, had applied for and were granted travel authorisation online a number of weeks before their flight. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not respond to the Post’s or the Guardian’s requests for comment.
Mr Mahmood’s sister-in-law Sadaf Mahmood told LBC radio that her husband was arrested and detained overnight in Israel before being put on a plane back to Britain, but the reason was never explained to them.
Ms. Creasy raised concerns that U.S. officials may be discriminating against British Muslims in the wake of attacks linked to extremist groups. “But we were alienated”, Mohammad Tariq Mahmood, one of the family members, told the Guardian. They were also forced to return everything they had purchased at Gatwick’s duty-free shops before being escorted from the airport, he said.
He also requested Cameron to help them as they are still not informed about why the officials refused to give them a boarding pass when they haven’t done anything wrong.
At Creasy’s urging, Prime Minister David Cameron’s office announced that it, too, would investigate.
Ajmal Mansoor, an imam and lecturer from Bristol, described feeling “baffled, annoyed and angry”, after being turned away from boarding a flight to NY on December 17.
British lawmakers are especially upset this comes amid Donald Trump’s repeated calls to ban all Muslims from entering the country.
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Mahmood told The Guardian he was not provided any reasoning for the ban, but is quite certain he already knew the answer. “I haven’t unpacked yet, because they still think they’re going to go”.
