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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2016 16:03:49 GMT -5
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Post by beth on Aug 6, 2016 10:10:51 GMT -5
the story ...
After spending her honeymoon in Turkey, Faizah Shaheen arrived home to a rude awakening. Upon landing at Doncaster Sheffield Airport in the U.K., Shaheen was detained and interrogated by police after a Thomson Airways crew member had reported her two weeks earlier for "suspicious behavior."
The behavior in question? The 27-year-old British psychotherapist had been reading a book called Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline.
According to the Independent, Shaheen was questioned for 15 minutes under the country's Terrorism Act. "I was queuing at passport control and saw police staring at me," Shaheen told the outlet. "I just got through passport control and then two police officers approached me and took me aside and asked me to show my passport again."
Shaheen explained to authorities the cruel irony of her detention: Part of her job as a psychotherapist at England's National Health Service includes preventing the radicalization of young people with mental health issues.
"I said that to the police," she told the Independent. "I'm actually part of trying to fight radicalisation and breaking the stereotypes."
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