Shah Rukh Khan faces extra airport security checks
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Top Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan says his Muslim surname 
gets him put through extra security checks outside India, particularly at London's Heathrow airport.
Khan said that in the past his name was recognized overseas, and he easily cleared his own and his movie crew's baggage.
However, due to tighter security his Hindu assistant is now able to clear his bags faster the Khan could.
''These days I am the one who is stopped so ... he carries my bags,'' the actor was quoted as saying. ''Internationally, if you have a Muslim surname you might be considered a terrorist.''
Khan will soon be acting in well-known Indian filmmaker Karan Johar's film, 'My name is Khan'. The movie is about how people with Muslim names are viewed with suspicion internationally after the terror attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
- MSN India
gets him put through extra security checks outside India, particularly at London's Heathrow airport.Khan said that in the past his name was recognized overseas, and he easily cleared his own and his movie crew's baggage.
However, due to tighter security his Hindu assistant is now able to clear his bags faster the Khan could.
''These days I am the one who is stopped so ... he carries my bags,'' the actor was quoted as saying. ''Internationally, if you have a Muslim surname you might be considered a terrorist.''
Khan will soon be acting in well-known Indian filmmaker Karan Johar's film, 'My name is Khan'. The movie is about how people with Muslim names are viewed with suspicion internationally after the terror attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
- MSN India
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