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Title: Muhammad Ali Jr. detained at Florida airport, asked, 'Are you Muslim''
Category: Uncle Sam
Posted By: ShepherdsDog
Date: 2017-02-25 12:10:23

[ShepherdsDog]

What is it, the TSA can't grope old ladies and children anymore so they have new targets to abuse?

[raydan]

Can't you answer, "None of your business!".

[Freakinoldguy]

Is this even legal? There's a no entry list for countries but not for religions so how the fuck do they get away with asking the Ali's their religious affiliations?

Seems like a gross abuse of authority by certain TSA agents and hopefully the idiots who asked the question will, in the future get to ask other foreign looking people whether they'd "like a Halal Hamburger with their fries".

[raydan]

Freedom of religion, the press and speech will probably be distant memories in the USA somewhere down the line. The only freedom left will be that to bear arms.


Then the fun starts.

[desertdude]

raydan raydan:

Freedom of religion, the press and speech will probably be distant memories in the USA somewhere down the line. The only freedom left will be that to bear arms.


Then the fun starts.

Or to arm bears, you know how things get distorted when passed on, Chinese whisper syndrome

[Thanos]

Just to show how ham-fisted this entire thing is being handled, here's another example of how dumb the TSA people are being ordered to behave:

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/renowne ... officials/

For the record, Rousso is a French Jew. He was born in Egypt and his family was expelled from there in 1956 under the wave of Jew-hatred that was unleashed in the days of Nasser.

[BeaverFever]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Is this even legal? There's a no entry list for countries but not for religions so how the fuck do they get away with asking the Ali's their religious affiliations?

Seems like a gross abuse of authority by certain TSA agents and hopefully the idiots who asked the question will, in the future get to ask other foreign looking people whether they'd "like a Halal Hamburger with their fries".

Looks like TSA is standing behind this agent. This is Trump time, this kind of behaviour will be encouraged not discouraged.

[ShepherdsDog]

He's empowering the worst elements in America.

[Thanos]

When your leader is the living definition of chaotic evil it stands to reason that the point behind everything he does is to create chaos and harm. "Inexperienced" TSA staffers my ass.

[rickc]

"What would be the motivation of the left?" someone asked in another thread. Look no further than this hypocritical horesshit thread. The thread starts out about Muhammed Ali Jr. being hasseled at an airport, a legitimate story. Than it turns into how this harassment is being ordered from Trump himself. Like we have been rolling out the red carpet and welcoming Muslims to America by placing leis around their necks at the airports before Trump took office. Where the hell have these people been for the last 15 plus years? Ask any Muslim about flying to or in America since 9/11. This forum has many threads about how Muslims were removed from aircraft for not speaking English, wearing Muslim wear, etc. Not one of those forums ever called President Obama to task. He was the President for eight years while this was going on. It was always those assholes at TSA. Those "rogue agents". The people at the TSA are doing the same shit they have been doing since 9/11. Now suddenly its a BIG DEAL!!! Now somehow the agents at TSA are "highly trained storm troopers" following marching orders from the President himself. Please!!!! Give me a fucking break already!!! The bullshit piles up so fast around here you need an excavator to keep up.

[Thanos]

What about the motivations of your president and the fucking orcs working for him? Is it really so impossible that the toxic-grade of malice at the top isn't sinking down into the lower ranks of the bureaucracies when things like this happen:

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/02/28/t ... organiser/

$1:

An India-based Tibetan women’s football team has said that its players have been denied US tourist visas to attend a tournament in Dallas “for no reason.”

Organiser Cassie Childers said that the 19 players and one coach each paid a non-refundable visa application fee of US$160 (HK$1,200) to the US Embassy in New Delhi, as well as travel and accommodation fees. The team’s total expenditure of almost US$5,000 (HK$39,000) has been lost, though a fundraiser has since been launched to recuperate the costs.

The Tibet women’s team was founded in 2011 by New Jersey-based Childers. The players, between them, hold Indian, Nepali and refugee passports.

The team had previously visited Germany in 2015, and were invited to attend the Dallas Cup, a men’s tournament, as part of its diversity programme in April.

‘No good reason’

Childers wrote that on the day of the players’ visa interviews last Friday, US Embassy officials had asked them the positions in which they played, and whether they had any family members in the US. Childers said the officials then asked her: “Can you, like, give me a reason they won’t stay in the USA?”

She claimed that the officials did not look at any of the team’s supporting documents and proof of fiscal sponsorship by the Dallas Cup. She said they simply returned the passports to the players, saying “you have no good reason to visit the US.”

“There [was] no opportunity for them to defect,” Childers told HKFP. “The thought of shaming themselves, their team, and their country in that way sickens them. This is not an anonymous soccer team that no one would notice if they never came back.”

“This is a team that has for years received major media attention,” she added. “[We were] already in talks with BBC, French television, and VICE Sports.”

“This [was] an event of historical proportions for Tibetans throughout the diaspora… they [were] to become the first sports team of any sex to represent Tibet on US soil.”

Childers launched a fundraiser in order to recuperate some of the team’s losses, and organise a training camp in India in March. “We will arrange some kind of alternative tour for matches, to someplace where Tibetans are welcome,” she wrote. By Tuesday, it had raised US$1,808 (HK$14,033) – 36 per cent of its goal.

The US Embassy in New Delhi confirmed to HKFP that the visa applications were denied, but were unable to provide further reasoning.

So what was the big fear hear that made the Trumpist snowflakes shit in their pants over this team touring your country? Female Buddhist women make the best terrorists out there? Muslim Buddhists with fake passports and birth certificates? They're gonna go underground and start stealin' yer jerbs? Fake Buddhist news! They're treated perfectly and awesomely by their Chinese occupying overlords!

Whatever your explanation is I'm sure it'll be as retarded, ignorant, and outright cruel as your president and his lackeys are. Another great day for MAGA-ing the shit out of common sense and basic decency!

[ShepherdsDog]

Umm ..errr. ..uhhh..MER-UH-KUH!!!!! That's why you commie prog.

[rickc]

Thanos Thanos:

What about the motivations of your president and the fucking orcs working for him? Is it really so impossible that the toxic-grade of malice at the top isn't sinking down into the lower ranks of the bureaucracies when things like this happen:

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/02/28/t ... organiser/

$1:

An India-based Tibetan women’s football team has said that its players have been denied US tourist visas to attend a tournament in Dallas “for no reason.”

Organiser Cassie Childers said that the 19 players and one coach each paid a non-refundable visa application fee of US$160 (HK$1,200) to the US Embassy in New Delhi, as well as travel and accommodation fees. The team’s total expenditure of almost US$5,000 (HK$39,000) has been lost, though a fundraiser has since been launched to recuperate the costs.

The Tibet women’s team was founded in 2011 by New Jersey-based Childers. The players, between them, hold Indian, Nepali and refugee passports.

The team had previously visited Germany in 2015, and were invited to attend the Dallas Cup, a men’s tournament, as part of its diversity programme in April.

‘No good reason’

Childers wrote that on the day of the players’ visa interviews last Friday, US Embassy officials had asked them the positions in which they played, and whether they had any family members in the US. Childers said the officials then asked her: “Can you, like, give me a reason they won’t stay in the USA?”

She claimed that the officials did not look at any of the team’s supporting documents and proof of fiscal sponsorship by the Dallas Cup. She said they simply returned the passports to the players, saying “you have no good reason to visit the US.”

“There [was] no opportunity for them to defect,” Childers told HKFP. “The thought of shaming themselves, their team, and their country in that way sickens them. This is not an anonymous soccer team that no one would notice if they never came back.”

“This is a team that has for years received major media attention,” she added. “[We were] already in talks with BBC, French television, and VICE Sports.”

“This [was] an event of historical proportions for Tibetans throughout the diaspora… they [were] to become the first sports team of any sex to represent Tibet on US soil.”

Childers launched a fundraiser in order to recuperate some of the team’s losses, and organise a training camp in India in March. “We will arrange some kind of alternative tour for matches, to someplace where Tibetans are welcome,” she wrote. By Tuesday, it had raised US$1,808 (HK$14,033) – 36 per cent of its goal.

The US Embassy in New Delhi confirmed to HKFP that the visa applications were denied, but were unable to provide further reasoning.

So what was the big fear hear that made the Trumpist snowflakes shit in their pants over this team touring your country? Female Buddhist women make the best terrorists out there? Muslim Buddhists with fake passports and birth certificates? They're gonna go underground and start stealin' yer jerbs? Fake Buddhist news! They're treated perfectly and awesomely by their Chinese occupying overlords!

Whatever your explanation is I'm sure it'll be as retarded, ignorant, and outright cruel as your president and his lackeys are. Another great day for MAGA-ing the shit out of common sense and basic decency!

Basic decency? Lol!!! Thats a good one! You posted a meme of a roll of toilet paper composed of the Koran. You joked about a Muslim being thrown out of a jetliner at 30,000 feet. You have stated numerous times that you don't want Muslims in your country, and you want the ones that are there sent back to where they come from. Your posting history speaks for itself. You are entitled to your opinions. If thats how you feel, fine. I am not going to try to change your mind, but don't come on here and pretend like you actually give a fuck that a Muslim is being hassled at an airport just to score a cheap shot at President Trump. You never cared before. You don't get to start pretending like you do now just because you have some deep seated all consuming personal issue with the new president.

[Public_Domain]

I don't know Thanos' conplete new stance, but since the New Year I've noticed a clear shift from much of his older harsher rhetoric. Still not a fan of the refugee crisis and feels it's damaging Europe and potentially Canada, but a lot less likely to adhere fully to his old "posting history".

People are allowed to change their perspective. Whether Trump is or is not responsible for that shift doesn't really mean much.