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Monday, November 03, 2008
Visa story: "Why no mention about other non-Arab Muslims who have to endure humiliation in US airports? Have you heard about the special registration? Check this out: http://www.ice.gov/pi/specialregistration. You know what is more disgusting - when you traveled with the Japanese airline and was the only one out of the 300 passengers who was pulled aside and told to go to this small room where they would fingerprint you,snapped your picture,asked stupid questions, took your credit card number and asked you to wait and wait. The officers would joke among themselves while I have to pray that I would not miss my next plane to DC. The humiliation you have to endure as a non-Arab Muslim in US airport are rarely spoken about. Every time we moved, we have to report our new address to INS. We are bound to restrictions and forced to swallow them. I always sit in the special registration room with deep pain. It's a room for people they believed, are ready to destroy their holy western civilization. Tell the Americans in Syria - about that room. A room with no tea and no friendship but is justified to secure their civilization from the menace of east. If you plan to publish my story, please dont mention my name."