Re: Anti Muslim discrimination at US airports?
I am not a Pakistani but a Subcontinental with a foot long beard which does indicate that I should be subjected to the third degree as far as the officials at various airports are concerned. As was posted here, I have never had a problem at O'Hare and it does seem to be a very well run airport in the US. JFK and La Guardia have not just the arrogance of being entry points into the US's wealthiest city, they also have the legendary New York rudeness which no one faces in the Midwest or other parts of the USA. Other airports that I have flown through include Atlanta, Los Angeles International, Cincinnati, Milwaukee etc and all of them were nice to varying degrees. The worst, absolutely, was Lester Pearson International in Toronto, Canada, where some of the SOuth Asian immigration officials seem to have it in for any SOuth Asian having American papers, some kind of jealousy, I guess at being in Canada and not in the USA. The worst in the world that I have been through was Frankfurt - the Germans behaving like their Nazi predecessors did, but that is another story.