Originally Posted by
YOWgary
...to say nothing of the constant demand for breathless outrage from the kind of person who insists on declaring any such story to be fabricated before any of the facts are known.
Yes, especially given that a member of the British parliament has said both that he was told it was because his name was Mohammad and that has was questioned for a considerable period of time. Of course it can't merely be that his name was Mohammad, since if that were the explanation then hundreds would be checked every day. But if this was indeed said it is a very dismissive and inappropriate thing to say. Perhaps it wasn't said, but shouldn't there be a presumption that he is telling the truth, a default assumption that he likely is? We would normally afford that dignity to anyone who reports that someone said something to them, let alone a sitting member of parliament.