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Old 24-12-2015, 10:11   #13
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Re: Calls for Cameron to step in after US bars British Muslim family from Disneyland

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Actually, I think there is more to this incident than meets the eye, and I hope some factual information comes out.

However, using Katie Hopkins/breitbart as evidence, when their articles are non-fact based, and just use dog-whistle phrases, doesn't have any credibility.

I feel the same about the Mirror and the SWP publication, do I am an equal-opportunity sceptic.
The articles quoted their source of information.
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Speaking to the Guardian, Mohammad Tariq Mahmood, who was travelling with his brother and nine of their children on a family holiday to Disneyland California, said:
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One of the brothers was interviewed on LBC Radio.
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CBS News reports two of the brothers in the Muslim family group, stopped from boarding a flight to the US, 'hit positive for terror checks'
CNN
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A U.S. official on Wednesday told CNN that not all family members were prevented from traveling, but did not specify who would have been permitted to travel.
So we don't know who it was that was barred.

Yet another case from nearly 3 years ago, where they weren't Muslim so of course no fuss was made.
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Two UK tourists were arrested, detained for 12 hours and then sent home after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents misinterpreted one traveler's tweets containing British vernacular and a “Family Guy” reference as a terrorist threat.
According to The Daily Mail and photographs of Customs paperwork obtained by the independent British news agency Small World News Service, Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and Emily Banting, 24, raised suspicion of being terrorists of Bryan's tweets about "destroying America" and "****ing people off on Hollywood Blvd and diggin' Marilyn Monroe up."
Not a Muslim.
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Japanese artist Fram Kitagawa has been denied a US visa, barring him from attending a conference on public art and activism at the University of Washington, because he took part in a protest against the expansion of a US military base in Sunagawa, Hokkaido, over 45 years ago.
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