Czech your history
Eva Derton

"Blatant, extreme and uncompromising racism?"

So Mohamad was questioned at the border because he is born in Lebanon and because a pro-Palestinian pamphlet was found in his car trunk.

I became a landed immigrant in Canada in 1967 and was allowed to travel to USA only if I was willing to pay for police escort. Even after I became a Canadian citizen, the revelation that I was born in Czechoslovakia was met with further questioning at the border. Had a communist pamphlet been found in the trunk of my car, I most likely would have been subjected to similar experience as Mohamad. Because I am white, I could not have blamed such an experience on racial profiling as Mohamad does.

Perhaps the border procedures have not changed that much since Sept. 11th.

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