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By: xcslewis in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 07 Mar 17 2:50 AM | 52 view(s)
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Khizr Khan cancels Toronto talk: organizer

TORONTO — The organizer of a luncheon featuring a speech by the father of an American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq says the event has been cancelled because the man's "travel privileges are being reviewed."

Ramsay Talks says Khizr Khan, who has publicly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for his anti-Muslim rhetoric, was scheduled to talk about tolerance, understanding and unity in Toronto on Tuesday.

Khan's son, Humayun Khan, was one of 14 American Muslims who died serving the United States in the ten years after 9/11.

Ramsay Talks says Khizr Khan was notified late Sunday night that his travel privileges were being reviewed.

Neither Khan nor Ramsay Talks say who is reviewing his travel privileges and why.

On Monday, Trump unveiled a revised travel ban that temporarily halts entry to the U.S. for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas and suspends the country's refugee program.

By The Canadian Press

http://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/7174945-khizr-khan-cancels-toronto-talk-organizer/


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Now this is authoritarian behaviour
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Tue, 07 Mar 17 2:10 AM 		Msg. 21256 of 54959

"Gold Star father Khizr Khan’s “freedom to travel abroad” is reportedly under review, and he says he doesn’t know why.

Khan was scheduled to speak at a luncheon in Toronto on Tuesday “on what we can do about the appalling turn of events in Washington — so that we don’t all end up sacrificing everything.” The two-hour event was to include a presentation and then a question-and-answer session.

But Khan was told late Sunday that his traveling privileges were under review, according to Ramsay Talks, which organized the luncheon....

Khan has been a U.S. citizen for more than 30 years, and his son, Humayun Khan, a University of Virginia graduate and Muslim American Army captain who died in Iraq in 2004, was posthumously awarded a Bronze Star and Purple Heart."

Trump and INS in cahoots? If there's a connection, a lot of people may think this is a disqualifying incident. You'd want to be rid of a president that had this happen. Arbitrary exercise of power in vengeance for free and entirely patriotic speech by a political opponent. Fundamental breach of the constitution in a dozen ways.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/khizr-khan-travel-privileges-toronto-235727

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