I had heard that because they were talking Urdu (ie a language that the other passengers couldn't understand), they thought they might be terrorists.
Although I think that being made to remove an "offensive" t-shirt is worse, since it was undertaken by people in authority. I kind of expect people-in-the-street to be ignorant, but I would hope that security guards at an airport had some kind of better behaviour.
rparvaaz has pointed out this article about some Indian citizens who were arrested on a flight from Amsterdam (http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=313649&rel_no=1&back_url=).
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Date: 2006-08-30 04:03 pm (UTC)I had heard that because they were talking Urdu (ie a language that the other passengers couldn't understand), they thought they might be terrorists.
Although I think that being made to remove an "offensive" t-shirt is worse, since it was undertaken by people in authority. I kind of expect people-in-the-street to be ignorant, but I would hope that security guards at an airport had some kind of better behaviour.