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U.S. keeps Disneyland-bound British Muslim family out of the country<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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As Mohammed Tariq Mahmood sat in the departure lounge of London\u2019s Gatwick Airport last week, he was surrounded by giddy children, ecstatic for the 11-hour flight that would ferry them to Disneyland.<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cMickey Mouse \u2013 I\u2019m looking forward to seeing you tomorrow,\u201d Mahmood\u2019s 10-year-old niece scribbled in her diary, alongside a colorful illustration complete with oversized ears. \u201cI\u2019ve got to go now. We\u2019re getting on the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n

But they never did. A border control officer, on orders from Washington, intervened, Mahmood said, telling him and his brother that their family of 11 had been barred from the flight.<\/p>\n

What was supposed to be a dream vacation instead became on Wednesday just the latest flash-point in a debate over Islam and security that inflamed passions on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials strongly denied that the Mahmood family was targeted based on their religion. But the case prompted America\u2019s largest Muslim advocacy organization to call for an investigation into whether Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump\u2019s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States was being \u201cimplemented informally\u201d by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).<\/p>\n

A prominent British parliamentarian, meanwhile, demanded that Prime Minister David Cameron press U.S. officials for an explanation \u2013 something that Mahmood said he had not been given more than a week after the aborted Dec. 15 flight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only explanation I can think of is that my name is Mohammed,\u201d said Mahmood, the 41-year-old owner of a northeast London gym, in an interview Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>
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