13-01-2016 14:17 via feeds.theguardian.com

Muslim professor blocked from game because his name was on US blacklist

Muhammad Khan’s name appeared on a US government list of people subject to economic sanctions, which saw him barred from signing up for Paragon
Epic Games has apologised after mistakenly barring an American professor from playing its online game Paragon because someone who has the same name as him was on a US government blacklist.Muhammad Zakir Khan, an assistant professor at Florida’s Broward College, had tried to sign up for the beta of first-person shooter Paragon, a multiplayer g
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