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    This comedian says Border Patrol pulled him off a bus. Now he's suing the government

    by Richard Read, Los Angeles Times Feb 22, 2020 4 minutes

    SEATTLE - Libyan funny guy Mohanad Elshieky often riffs on cross-cultural quirks, such as the tendency of Americans to tell him that in this country, his name is pronounced "Mohammed."

    "It's just not how names work, they're not based on location," the New York-based comedian said in a Comedy Central stand-up viewed 380,000 times on YouTube. "If your name is Miles and you go to France, no one's going to come to you and be like, 'Hmm, actually here, it's pronounced Kilometers.'"

    In that performance, titled "What to Say if You're Interrogated by an Extremist Militia," Elshieky described an incident that was not funny, one that he says still gives him nightmares about being deported to Libya. On Jan. 27 last year,

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