Posted on 09/23/2007 8:00:31 AM PDT by Travis McGee
Hijabbed security guard frisks nun (thanks to all who sent this in).
Of course there should be random searches, and no one should be exempt -- if any group is exempt, its dress will soon be adopted by the terrorists.
But there is an absurdity to this photo. And a hint that maybe we would do better devoting our resources to searching those who are more likely to be threats -- were that not so politically incorrect.
Just one more reason that I refuse to fly anymore.
What the media has said about muslims is NOTHING compared to what we've learned about them on our own!
Who do you think you are kidding? All those muslim lands that used to be Christian didn't change voluntarily.
“Since by far the biggest terror threats to us are from muslims...”
Nothing illustrates better the myopic view some have on the war on terror than this statement.
You forget to mention that another distinguishing factor among terrorists is that 99% of them are men. Do you then agree that men are the biggest terror threat to us and therefore we should lock up all of them?
“Bob, my local mosque is in Lewiston, ME, and you bet I know what is going on in it.”
Do explain. Do you attend Friday services? You got a bug in there? If so I’d love to hear the transcripts.
BTW - I’m not saying bad things might be being said there, I’m just wondering how you know and what was said.
To me it looks like a lot of kneeling, bowing and praying. Not my cup of tea but nothing illegal about it.
Then again they got these fringe nut cases who believe they can hasten the appearance of the caliphate and advent of worldwide islam by blowing up non believers. Kind of reminds me of how the KKK operated on their “christian identity” crusade. I don’t remember people burning down the Vatican or the Church of England over their atrocities though.
Profiling has to do with things others than looks. How much time is wasted by searching people like this nun, while people who DO fit the profile pass right through ? Just so we can pretend we are not at war with Muslim terrorists, most of whom DO fit the picture.
No, there shouldn't be. Middle aged Caucasian nuns are not terrorists. Pretending they might be is a ritual to show our commitment to anti-racism at the expense of sanity, nothing more and nothing less.
Wow. That article was pretty good and overall pretty positive, yet you found the one item that you could twist around. Like rationale thinking adults should do, let’s take a look at the whole article and let others decide if you were truly representing the spirit of the information contained within.
“One in four younger U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings to defend their religion are acceptable at least in some circumstances, though most American Muslims overwhelmingly reject the tactic and are critical of Islamic extremism and al Qaeda, a poll says.
The survey by the Pew Research Center, one of the most exhaustive ever of U.S. Muslims, revealed a community that in many ways blends comfortably into society. Its largely mainstream members express nearly as much happiness with their lives and communities as the general public does, show a broad willingness to adopt American customs, and have income and education levels similar to others in the U.S.
Even so, the survey revealed noteworthy pockets of discontent.
While nearly 80 percent of U.S. Muslims say suicide bombings of civilians to defend Islam cannot be justified, 13 percent say they can be, at least rarely.
That sentiment is strongest among those younger than 30. Two percent of them say it can often be justified, 13 percent say sometimes and 11 percent say rarely.
“It is a hair-raising number,” said Radwan Masmoudi, president of the Washington-based Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, which promotes the compatibility of Islam with democracy.
He said most supporters of the attacks likely assumed the context was a fight against occupation — a term Muslims often use to describe the conflict with Israel.
U.S. Muslims have growing Internet and television access to extreme ideologies, he said, adding: “People, especially younger people, are susceptible to these ideas.”
Federal officials have warned that the U.S. must be on guard against homegrown terrorism, as the British suffered with the London transit bombings of 2005.
Even so, U.S. Muslims are far less accepting of suicide attacks than Muslims in many other nations. In surveys Pew conducted last year, support in some Muslim countries exceeded 50 percent, while it was considered justifiable by about one in four Muslims in Britain and Spain, and one in three in France.
“We have crazies just like other faiths have them,” said Eide Alawan, who directs interfaith outreach at the Islamic Center of America, one of the largest mosques in the U.S. He said killing innocent people contradicts Islam.
Andrew Kohut, Pew director, called support for the attacks “one of the few trouble spots” in the survey.
The question did not specify where a suicide attack might occur, who might carry it out or what was meant by using a bombing to “defend Islam.”
The survey estimates there are roughly 2.35 million Muslim Americans.
In other findings:
Only 5 percent of U.S. Muslims expressed favorable views of the terrorist group al Qaeda, though about a fourth did not express an opinion.
Six in 10 said they are concerned about a rise in Islamic extremism in the U.S., while three in four expressed similar worries about extremism around the world.
Only one in four consider the U.S. war on terrorism a sincere attempt to curtail international terror. Only 40 percent said they believe Arab men carried out the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
By a 6-to-1 margin (75% to 12%), they say the U.S. was wrong to invade Iraq, while a third say the same about Afghanistan — far deeper than the opposition expressed by the general U.S. public.
Just over half said it has been harder being a U.S. Muslim since the Sept. 11 attacks, especially the better educated, higher income, more religious and young.
Nearly a third of those who flew in the past year say they underwent extra screening because they are Muslim.
Overall, Muslim Americans were found to have a generally positive view of American society at large. Most (72%) say their communities are excellent or good places in which to live and are highly assimilated. Seventy-three percent also said that they had never been a victim of discrimination for being Muslim while living in the U.S.
Sixty-two percent of Muslims said life in the U.S. is better for women than it is in predominantly Muslim countries.
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of adult Muslims in the U.S. were born elsewhere — in Arab countries, Pakistan or other South Asian nations. Twenty percent of native-born Muslims are African-Americans; many are converts to Islam.
Nearly half believe that Muslims who come to the U.S. should work at adopting American customs rather than remaining apart from larger society. Nearly two-thirds (63%) did not see any conflict between living as a devout Muslim and living in contemporary America.
This may have fueled their overwhelming response when asked if they felt it was possible for the larger society to accept them: Seventy-one percent said that most people who want to get ahead in the United States, including Muslims, can make it if they are willing to work hard.
More specifically, however, native-born African-American Muslims are the most disillusioned segment of the U.S. Muslim population. They are more skeptical of the view that hard work pays off, are less satisfied with the way things are going in the America, and more of them believe that Muslim immigrants should try to remain apart from mainstream U.S. society.
By law, the Census Bureau does not ask about peoples’ religions.
Telephone interviews were conducted with 1,050 Muslim adults from January through April, including some in Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. Subjects were chosen at random, from a separate list of households including some with Muslim-sounding names, and from Muslim households that had participated in previous surveys.
The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 percentage points.”
I agree, last couple of times I took a flight, the airport was a freaking madhouse.
This photo has only two people in it. Last time that happened was 9/12
“Not for lack of the ragheads trying, pal.”
Says all I need to know about you and your opinions.
Wow, are you referring to American Islam?
The picture is a testament to the fact that women covering their bodies and their head at one time included all religions that descended from Abraham. The old habits that nuns wore when we were in grade school were little different from burkas. But no one, except some Protestants had a problem with it.
“Islam is the enemy. We do not have the time and luxes to sort out the few “good” Muzzies from the normal (bad) Muzzies.”
And it’s armchair generals like you who are going to get a whole lot of American soldiers killed.
Must be a nice position from the safety of your Laz-E-Boy.
“They’ll have my sympathy when they are in the streets protesting terrorists & when they start informing on and turning in terrorists. Until that happens I can’t tell them apart.”
And I suppose you, being the good Christian that you are, were out in the streets protesting the KKK when they were representing themselves as “soldiers of Christ”.
“Who do you think you are kidding? All those muslim lands that used to be Christian didn’t change voluntarily.”
Neither did the Christian lands that used to be pagan.
“Profiling has to do with things others than looks. How much time is wasted by searching people like this nun, while people who DO fit the profile pass right through ?”
And you don’t think that as soon as we do this the jihadists will start using western looking suicide bombers?
Nice move, while were searching all the ones that “look like terrorists” the real ones will slip through dressed as hip hoppers or university professors...or DOCTORS.
“No, there shouldn’t be. Middle aged Caucasian nuns are not terrorists.”
I see. How about middle age caucasian islamic converts who dress like nuns?
Speechless.
What? Isn’t the nun going to sue for having her robe opened by the so-called security agent? Isn’t she going to whine and whimper and claim victim status? Isn’t she going to scream about discrimination? Isn’t her local bishop going to go out in the streets and yell and scream?
No.
Because it would go nowhere. The nun is Christian. Christians have no rights. Christians are targeted for gradual extinction in this formerly great country.
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