My personal experience in TSA mayhem is fairly limited as a caucasian man. However, if I don't shave a few days before a flight, I definitely get the stink-eye from security.

I was appalled when Yusef, the man formerly known as Cat Stevens, was removed from a plane because he was on the no-fly list several years back. The man wrote “Peace Train!”

The fact of the matter is that someone that wants to do harm to anyone could be any gender, nationality, ethnicity or religion.

To say “You look kinda sorta like people who did bad things before, thus we think you may intend to do bad things” is a grievously-flawed logical leap.

That's part of the problem: the 1 to 1 employees are underpaid, they don't care, they are poorly educated and are part of the problem for our airport's issues.

SRK is an extreme and obviously high-profiled case. But the fact that this happens purely based on the fact that someone has the last name “Khan” or isn't white or looks “different” is absurd.

It needs to stop. The only way to move forward is to stop the nonsense that is holding us back.

This is an extreme example, for sure, but an example nonetheless of how utterly foolish our system has become.

SRK's situation would be like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie going into India and having THAT happen to them.

The part that specifically resonated with me was the security issue. I've traveled through and lived for months at a time in countries that are a far greater target of terrorism and it's always been handled in a far more logical, safe, and efficient way than what we see here.

Yes, the US has unique when it comes to security. Between it's size, length of the border and sheer volume of people coming in that's apparent. But 1 to 1, at the security gate my first thought shouldn't be “I bet this guy would rather be doing anything other than his job.”

Would it be considered ignorant to say it's uncalled for just in his case? I think its uncalled for all around.

But in the case of SRK, it's uncalled for. I'm not saying he's “special,” I'm saying that we shouldn't have ignornant people on the ground who don't know any better.

What happened to him, would be like Brad Pitt going to India and the same thing happening.

It happens everyday. This is why the U.S. is trying to enable new laws that make you put your birthdate and other information so that they aren't detaining and questioning people.

This is a terrible situation and it usually takes famous names to bring it to light.

As as a Muslim, I can say that not many people know “Khan” is a Muslim name- your average American person would not know that. If anything, they would assume that it was spelled “Caan.” My name is a typical Muslim name and yet the majority of Americans don't know that. To be fair, that works to our advantage because my family doesn't usually have problems at airports, despite being of Pakistani descent.

This is an issue that is extremely sensitive, and it angers me to no end that a select handful of stupid, ignorant, and hateful men who call themselves “muslim” (but in fact are not because what they're doing is in fact against the religion) have ruined it for the majority of peaceful Muslims. At the same time, I'm supportive of extra security because there are more crazy people out there and I'd rather be safe than sorry. I don't know what the solution is, but I agree that racial profiling has to end.