UAE tells citizens to avoid national dress while abroad after man held in US

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DUBAI,- The United Arab Emirates has urged men to avoid wearing the white robes, headscarf and headband of the national dress when travelling abroad, after a businessman visiting the United States was wrestled to the ground and held as an ISIS suspect.

 

UAE media reported that the Emirati man was detained in Avon, Ohio, last week after a female clerk at a local hotel called 911 to report what she had described as a man affiliated to ISIS, according to the Arabic-language al-Bayan newspaper. It only identified him by his initials.

 

The English language The National said the receptionist at the Fairfield Inn hotel called the police after she heard the man talking on his phone in the hotel lobby.