Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan held at Newark Airport; claims racial profiling due to Muslim name

A Bollywood superstar cited as one of the world’s 50 most influential men claims he was racially profiled by security at Newark Airport.

“I was really being hassled, perhaps because of my name being Khan,” actor Shah Rukh Khan charged Saturday, a day after he was detained for two hours.

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He recently signed a deal with Fox Star Studios to finance and distribute his new movie, “My Name is Khan” - the story of a Muslim man mistaken for a terrorist in post-9/11 America.