Muhammad Ali Jr. detained at Florida airport, asked, 'Are you Muslim''

"raydan" said
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.

"Freakinoldguy" said
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".

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 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 an event of historical proportions for Tibetans throughout the diaspora� they 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.

"Thanos" said
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/



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!