Flying While Muslim

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Flying while Muslim pp. Searching, questioning, or denying service to an airline passenger for no other reason than the person appears to be a Muslim. Also: FWM.

On Sept. 26, 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria, was returning to Montreal from Tunisia when he was taken into custody at New York’s Kennedy Airport.

Shackled and interrogated by INS, FBI and other agencies for several days, Arar repeatedly asked for an attorney, but was refused one. …

Arar never was charged with a crime. But his real offense might have been simply FWM � flying while Muslim.
�Lawrence Swaim, “Laws need to change,” The Argus (Fremont, CA), February 4, 2004

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