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"The head of IT at our law firm is a Muslim. He is a gentleman in every sense of the word. His fanaticism, if he has any, is restricted to cricket. Last Sunday he went on a business trip to California. On arrival at Los Angeles he was detained and interrogated on suspicion of being a terrorist....

"For the first 12 hours he was refused access to a telephone. After 16 hours, not having been given any food, he asked if he could have some. He was given ham sandwiches and, when he explained that he could not eat pork, was told: 'You eat what you are given.' He did not eat. He was eventually escorted back to the airport in handcuffs and deported."

-- Tony Willoughby of Willoughby & Partners, a firm of solicitors, from a letter published in The Times of London in May 2003.

(From the Quotation of the Day mailing list, 2003-11-28. Submitted to the list by Mike Krawchuk.)