“The word terrorism is used by the world power for disfranchisement of others from their own lands.

For Hindus, it is used for disfranchisement of Hindus on lands where Hinduism originated, by the same people.”

It’s that dumbness and parochialism with respect to the rest of the world. Let me guess- you don’t look like Hritik Roshan, nor are you upper class Egyptian, who could easily pass for Portuguese, French or Spanish. The Americans in question are looking at one thing and one thing alone- your brown complexion. People are going by their crudest animal instincts. All their education and values go out the window, and the animal comes out.

But the subject here is indeed about how brown complexioned people have been scrutinized more, specifically with respect to air travel. Can you imagine the irony and the idiocy of a situation where an Indian travelling in the US, who has been injured in a terrorist attack in India, with a name like Kapil Shastri, being watched by security officials and ignorant American civilians? While a light complexioned Turk or Albanian Moslem escapes such scrutiny? Or forget about Turks and Albanians for now. What about an Indian who looks like Hritik Roshan, Anil Kapoor or Aishwariya Rai? Are they going to be looked at, or will such looks be reserved for darker complexioned Indians? Fact is, simpleton Americans are just doing the crudest and most vulgar thing- racial profiling.

If that’s genuinely how you interpreted my comment, then clearly it’s not me who needs to come up with smarter retorts – your reasoning here makes no sense whatsoever, nor did your previous comment arrogantly suggesting Indians are exempt from terrorism. Nice job immediately jumping to skin complexion though – we know how Indians are obsessed with that

You’re confirming the stereotype of a large number of Americans being dumb, ignorant and presumptuous.

Oh I’m not U.S American by nationality; funny how you called me presumptuous when clearly it’s the other way around Mr. Shekhar. But good job confirming the stereotype of Indians being arrogant, pompous, and rude!

You are too clever by half. By your reasoning then, everyone should be a suspect, because not all Moslems are dark complexioned( or did you not know that), nor for that matter are all Indians. Better come up with a much smarter comment. You’re confirming the stereotype of a large number of Americans being dumb, ignorant and presumptuous.