Posted on 11/29/2010 4:45:12 PM PST by wtd
Last week, MPAC completed a quarterly training for Transportation Security Officers (TSO) with about 2,200 officers receiving training on cultural awareness about Islam and Muslims. This was an important achievement for MPAC and the Muslim American community in light of the recent airport security changes and because TSOs are responsible for screening passengers and luggage.
MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC Civic Outreach Coordinator, Saadia Khan and MPAC volunteers, Nisreen Malhis and Sireen Sawaf, conducted the trainings at Los Angeles International Airport for the past two months. They discussed the diversity of Muslims around the world from cultural dress to language to tenets. The four trainers taught the TSOs how to properly handle a Quran and discussed the different ways Muslim women and men choose to cover or dress. For example, the TSOs learned if a woman wears hijab and needs a secondary screening she should be screened in a private area by a female TSO officer. The training sessions allowed trainers to discuss the common practice of Muslims praying in various areas of the airport, adding that they do this because LAX does not have a designated prayer area as other airports do.
The officers were extremely receptive and interested in the information presented. They had many questions regarding the meaning of jihad, sharia, and the rights of women in Muslim countries.
LAX is the third largest airport in the world, making it important for Transportation Security Administration to conduct cultural awareness trainings in order for officers to effectively and efficiently keep the airports secure rather than deciphering cultural tenets. MPAC commends LAX for taking the initiative to implement these trainings.
Earlier this year at the last quarterly training, the TSA invited asked Nirinjan Khalsa of the Human Relations Commission to highlight the Sikh religion.
– Marium F. Mohiuddin (marium@mpac.org) Communications Coordinator
They need some TEA Party sensitivity training.
Did they present information about the cultural preferences of Christian women? We don’t like having our bodies fondled by strangers either. What’s so freaking special about mooslim women?
This will stop when how many Americans die? We know its not 3000, right? Is it 30,000? 300,000? 3 million dead bodies? It will stop — I promise you it will stop.
How ‘bout a little freaking AMERICAN SENSITIVITY TRAINING, ***holes!!! After all, IT IS OUR COUNTRY!
Sentence was crying out to be fixed.
They were trained how to handle the Koran. Which plays right into the supremacist ideology of Islam.
“...now get on out there and grope some three-year-olds!”
This is sickness.
How can they be a Muslim and a American when their beliefs run exactly opposite ours.
Unbelievable...
Instead of profiling Middle Eastern males between the ages of 17 and 49, who are the people most responsible for global terrorism, they conduct PC “Muslim sensitivity training” to impact them even less than average American citizens.
This is sheer insanity and dhimmitude on display, folks. Al Queda must be laughing their asses off.
Everything I need to know about islam I learned on 9/11.
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Some of Obama's advisers are telling him to ignore congress, and rule by decree. And to a great extent, he could, if he is so inclined. This is really wrong.
When the foreign occupier employed the phrase 'fundamentally transforming America' two years ago, that's precisely what he meant. Zer0 has no intention of going quietly.
Obama's 2012 campaign HQ
I will give an inservice on Christian sensitivities ...Oh yea thats right..they don’t care
Would there be this much “back bending” if Christian’s had a terrorist wing within the faith?
Are we supposed to know what MPAC stands for? I assume Muslim Political Action Committee but strange that the writer doesn’t bother to say....
Good point . . .MPAC = Muslim Public Affairs Council
Needs repeating.
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