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To: Explodo
Dr. Zaheer Hasan from Islamic Center of Greater Toledo says flying as a Muslim is disheartening. "As I board a plane, I see all the eyes tracking me. I see numerous visits by the airline crew.

Then he should take a camel.

Your wife is not alone. Mine is middle-aged, matronly, sweet as can be and looks like the mixture of Scot-Irish, Italian and Cherokee which she is. She gets pulled over 9 in 10 times. One TSA worker even apologized and told her the day's quote of older white women hadn't been filled.!

42 posted on 05/07/2007 9:56:50 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Vigilanteman
the day's quote of older white women hadn't been filled

IE, the day's "wasting of effort on people who wouldn't possibly be terrorists while letting people through who should be scrutinized better".

44 posted on 05/07/2007 9:59:46 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Vigilanteman

On our trips this past week to JFK from Oakland, my 86-year-old mom, in a wheelchair, was patted down on both trips. OK, I can see that an older lady may be vulnerable to someone sticking a device somewhere in the back of the wheelchair ... but in this case, she was being attended to by a JetBlue employee.

It was a very thorough search.


70 posted on 05/07/2007 11:26:50 AM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again. And Always Act.)
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