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Labour MP Stella Creasy has called on the prime minister to challenge the US after a UK Muslim family was barred from boarding a flight to Los Angeles.
The family of 11, from Ms Creasy's Walthamstow constituency, had planned a holiday to Disneyland but were stopped at Gatwick Airport on 15 December.
Mohammad Tariq Mahmood said his family was given no reason why US officials had refused to allow them to board.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35167511
Irrespective of any dubious 'rationale' underlying such a decision, why should the airline compensate them for something which isn't anything to do with it?
If the US wants to go down the route of locking itself down, best of luck to them. I can't understand why anyone would want to go there in the first place - you've far more chance of being blown away by a home grown, gun toting, constitution quoting manic in the US than being the victim of terrorists or just about anything else (except obesity in all probability). The world is full of equally scenic, interesting and much safer places to be, so the answer is to take your tourism money elsewhere and leave the US to its paranoia.