The son of global boxing legend Muhammad Ali was detained for about
two hours on arrival at a Florida airport and questioned about his
religion, his lawyer said.
Muhammad Ali Jr. was returning from Montego Bay, Jamaica, with his mother — Ali's first wife, Khalilah
— on Feb. 7 when immigration officers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport held him, said Chris Mancini, a former federal
prosecutor and a friend of the family.
Like his father, Ali Jr. is Muslim.
Khalilah showed officers a picture of herself with her ex-husband, who died June 3, and she was not detained, Mancini said. But Ali Jr. had no such photo.
"It is a very interesting twist in history,"
Mancini told NBC News. "His father fought for his religious rights, and
now that Trump is president, he has to fight."
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