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Is time to accept racial profiling at airports - because it keeps us all safe?

Model, actor and designer Waris Ahluwalia was barred from getting on a plane from Mexico to New York because he refused to take off his turban. He says asking a Sikh to do that is like asking him to take his clothes off in public. Speaking to the New York Daily News, Waris said "This isn't about Sikhs or Indians or Muslims ... This is about civil rights and racial profiling and if I have to be apart of that dialogue, I will be." Recently, Nihal spoke to Ahmed Ali who was asked to leave a plane for security reasons - his rant at the way he was treated at Manchester airport went viral. And so has Waris' story. But isn't it time we stopped complaining about it? Five callers share their views with Nihal.

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