Yesterday the world media reported the grilling of Abdul Sattar Edhi by Abdul Sattar Edhi the American immigration authorities at the JF Kennedy Airport in NY. It is a very sad incident that a famous philanthropist who has been working for decades and has even been nominated for Noble Prize is treated in grilled just because he wears traditional Pakistani clothes and a big beard. This is a classic example of discrimination based on religion and race. I remember the famous quotation of Martin Luther King when he came across a similar incident and said,

“Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.“

These were the ideals on the basis of which the American society should function. It is worth mentioning here that it is not the first time Edhi has to face this situation. In the past few years he had faced similar incidents at other American and Canadian airports. I wonder if the Americans do it on purpose or their databases and intelligence is obsolete. Even a small search on google would have cleared the situation. Our foreign office should take a serious notice of the situation and make sure that this humiliating treatment is not meted out to our citizens in future.

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