A longtime New Jersey mayor, who is Muslim, says he believes he was racially profiled when he and his family were held at an airport for hours after returning home from Turkey last month.
that the trip to Turkey to visit family started off rocky. He held up his 14-month-old's boarding pass. It was marked with"SSSS" — secondary security screening selection — or"the highest level of search," he said. Khairullah is married with four children.
"They started asking me, 'do you know about any terrorist groups forming over there, or did you meet any terrorists?' And that’s when I felt insulted after serving my community for over 18 years as an elected official," Khairullah said in the video he posted on YouTube Sunday."I felt that I was selected basically because of my name and identity."
"It is profiling. It happens every day to American citizens who happen to be Muslim," Mohamed said."And the only reason they’re taken back to secondary inspection and questioned that way is because of their faith, what they happen to be wearing, and what direction they pray." "All of these hours of community service obviously doesn’t matter when my name is Mohamed Khairullah," he said during the news conference.
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