Travel Restrictions on Chinese Muslims

(Urumqi, China) Chinese ethnic Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang Province are being discouraged, even denied, from traveling by air for the sake of Olympic security.

According to Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Uyghur World Congress, "They cannot buy the tickets. They are being told they are sold out."

Hasmat, a Uighur produce trader, said, “The security is really intense now. They went through everything I have." Hasmat thinks it's unfair because the Uighurs support the Olympics also.

On a different note, "a Muslim named Hasmat goes to the airport" doesn't sound like the start of a children's story.