Detaining Shahrukh at US Airport was just a matter of security check - Group Discussion

Detaining Shahrukh at US Airport was just a matter of security check.

Detention of Shahrukh at an airport in New York created a lot of ruckus. He joined Kalam and Fernandes in this process to be the third big name to be detained by US authorities. The question arises, whether the US was right to detain as popular as Shahrukh?

For

- Security checks are of utmost importance and the authorities have to treat people as equal while performing security checks.

- Beyond being a superstar SRK is also a human and therefore should not be met with special consideration.

- US airport authorities were only performing the task of ensuring the highest level of safety and precaution measures.

- Former president Abdul Kalam was also detained in the past. When no fuss was created during his detention then why such a big hullabaloo is being made about SRK’s detention.

Against

- It is believed by a huge section of people that the detention was more of a racial discrimination rather than a security check measure.

- This is not the first time a famous personality from India has been detained by the US airport authorities.

- SRK has been detained twice prior to this and it becomes insulting and humiliating sometimes.

- The ground on which SRK was detained is still not clear and people believe that this yet another case for unfair treatment towards Asians.

- Just because he has “Khan” behind his name doesn’t make him a terrorist. The ground on which he was detained was termed as “insensitive” and “incompetence” by many.

Conclusion

The debate can go on and on regarding this topic and there will always be mixed opinion on it. But if still US authorities don’t learn to respect the boundaries of people of value then it might be yet another case of unjust treatment meted out to Asians, especially Indians.