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Hey Obama, I was scared to death on my recent flight. What are you and the TSA going to do about it? Let me tell you about my New Year's Day flight from Atlanta to Seattle. We're waiting at the gate area and here comes this (what looked like to me) tall American Black women all bedecked out in the usual female Muslim gear, you know, the silk headscarf and covered from neck to ankle with nice looking clothing (I don't know what they call it). Anyway, she goes to the counter, gets a seat assignment, walks around the whole seating area looking for a seat. She had a tad of an attitude but maybe it was just me. The whole crowd looks like, "Oh Jesus, now what do we do?" Then a bearded Sikh guy (fwiw he "felt" okay, but who knows) waltzes up to the counter with his family - anyway he had that Sikh turban thingy on - and gets a seat assignment.

We just so happen were in the last row of the plane, 44, and the Muslim gal was 3 seats ahead of us, the Sikh guy was 2 seats ahead of us on the other side. I'm wondering, did they both get a crotch search? A total cavity search? I knew they hadn't, so it was tension city all the way to Seattle. Did anyone talk with them, interview them, like the Israelis do? I'm sweating bullets when she went to the bathroom. I know Sikhs don't like Muslims, but thought it was maybe a cover. Their proximity bothered me. I'm 65 but was ready to pounce if need be. I honest to God almost didn't get on the plane.

It's time you had our whole TSA start taking "read" lessons from the Israelis, and interview and do thorough searches if necessary, and yes, now crotch searches if indicated.

Anyway, we made it, but unless things change, it's just a matter of time until 300 men, women and children get killed. There were a lot of kids on the plane. . .

Just FYI and no offense meant...you had nothing to worry about the Sikh guy. Sikh’s are not followers of Islam and have faced attacks from Muslims living in their areas of India/Bangladesh etc.

Sikh’s for the most part are on our side in this fight.

Their only opposition has been to not have the mens hair-wraps removed. When the TSA came out with the request for some Sikh men to remove their hear-wraps, the community simply asked for another non-invasive way to check their wrappings, metal detectors etc. Given their hair is not cut and can literally be 10’ long (on some) and that it takes hours to wrap their heads, not to mention displaying their hair is against their beliefs I can understand their concerns.