Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Muslim-American body issues fatwa against airport body scanners
Times of India ^ | February 12, 2010

Posted on 02/12/2010 7:09:10 AM PST by Schnucki

WASHINGTON: Some Muslim-American groups are supporting a fatwa issued by a body of Islamic scholars forbidding Muslims from going through full body scanners at airports, a media report said.

The Fiqh Council of North America issued the religious ruling this week that says going through the airport scanners would violate Islamic rules on modesty, Free Press reported.

"It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women," reads the fatwa issued Tuesday. "Islam highly emphasises haya (modesty) and considers it part of faith. The Quran has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts."

After the Christmas Day bombing attempt in Detroit by a Muslim suspect from Nigeria, some US airports are now in the process of buying and using the body scanners to find explosives and other dangerous materials carried by terrorists.

But Muslim groups say the scanners, which show in graphic detail the outlines of a person's body, go against their religion. One option offered to passengers who don't want to use the scanners would be a pat down by a security guard. The Muslim groups are urging members to undergo those instead.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it endorses the fatwa. "We support the Fiqh Council's statement on full-body scanners and believe that the religious and privacy rights of passengers can be respected while maintaining safety and security," Nihad Awad, national executive director of CAIR was quoted as saying.

Currently, there are 40 full-body scanners at 19 airports in the US, including two in Detroit, said spokesman Jim Fotenos of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). There are plans for 450 more body scanners in US airports, he said.

In a statement, the TSA said it is committed to keeping passengers safe

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: airport; airports; airportsecurity; bodyscanners; cair; fatwa; fiqhcouncil; islam; muslimamericans; muslims; northamerica; tsa
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-76 next last
To: onedoug

I get sick of an annual invasion of ants every spring in my house.

All I can do is spread bait and let them take the poison back to the rest of the nest in hopes of killing as much of the current generation.

Its all about buying time through attrition.


21 posted on 02/12/2010 7:23:17 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists." ~~George W. Bush)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Schnucki
You know, I'm not wild about it, either, but I didn't put the ball in motion to make it an issue. Were I Muslim, I'd shut up, sit down and if I wanted to fly, I'd fly without weapons disguised as harmless objects. I don't want to be scanned by a man, nor should a man be scanned by a woman. Let's keep it as inoffensive as possible, and Muslims (American or otherwise) can sit on their fatwa and twirl since we have all be “inconvenienced” by their “inconvenient truth.”
22 posted on 02/12/2010 7:23:46 AM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cindy; Velveeta; LucyT; Rushmore Rocks; WestCoastGal; FARS; Candor7

FYI ping


23 posted on 02/12/2010 7:23:48 AM PST by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Schnucki

A Muslim fatwa complaining about airport body scanners? If it weren’t for Muslim fatwas, we wouldn’t need body scanners in the first place.

These people have no sense of irony.


24 posted on 02/12/2010 7:24:07 AM PST by Texas Mulerider (Rap music: hieroglyphics with a beat.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Schnucki

Yeah, I’ve got their fatwa right over here.


25 posted on 02/12/2010 7:24:15 AM PST by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: isthisnickcool

That eliminates Obama.


26 posted on 02/12/2010 7:25:16 AM PST by 240B (he is doing everything he said he would'nt and not doing what he said he would)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Constitutions Grandchild

“...since we have all be “inconvenienced” by their “inconvenient truth.”

Should be “...all been “inconvenienced”...”. Geez, what is it this morning?


27 posted on 02/12/2010 7:25:35 AM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Schnucki
Next Up:

A fatwa against going to the doctor?

28 posted on 02/12/2010 7:26:49 AM PST by cookcounty (Let us not speak of the honor of men. Rather, let us bind them with the Constitution. --Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Schnucki

Hey Ahmad, how’s that fatwa against committing acts of terrorism coming? Still nothing? Hello?


29 posted on 02/12/2010 7:28:09 AM PST by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim Ignatowski)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Schnucki

Let’s all take up a collection to buy full body scanners for our local airports.


30 posted on 02/12/2010 7:28:57 AM PST by mrsdeb (I didn't expect THAT to happen.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Schnucki

NO SCAN ... NO FLY ... NO PROBLEM


31 posted on 02/12/2010 7:29:46 AM PST by gwilhelm56 (OBAMA ... Orwell's 1984 was a WARNING ... NOT a TEXTBOOK!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pilated

I would feel much more comfortable knowing the plane I was flying on had no muslims aboard.

If they won’t go through the scanners then they can stay off the planes.

Works for me.


32 posted on 02/12/2010 7:30:15 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (The liberals are asking us to give Obama more time. Is 25 to life enough?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Schnucki
Notice that the story is reported by
33 posted on 02/12/2010 7:30:23 AM PST by cookcounty (Let us not speak of the honor of men. Rather, let us bind them with the Constitution. --Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rocksblues; Schnucki
Aha! A handy, effective way to "profile" Muslims. Everyody gets a full-body scan except those who refuse (that would be the Muslims), who have thus self-selected for either a full-body search (with MRI's and CT scans to detect antying that might have been inserted internally --- all at the expense of the search-ee)...

Or they don't fly.

34 posted on 02/12/2010 7:33:24 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Point of clarification.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: cookcounty
Notice that the story is reported by The Times of India.

Why is it that the Americans have to go 5,000 miles to get a real newspaper?????????????????????

35 posted on 02/12/2010 7:33:58 AM PST by cookcounty (Let us not speak of the honor of men. Rather, let us bind them with the Constitution. --Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: reagan_fanatic

**If they won’t go through the scanners then they can stay off the planes.**

If they don’t.. I sure AM NOT getting on that plane!!! I don’t have to be ANYWHERE ..that badly


36 posted on 02/12/2010 7:37:29 AM PST by gwilhelm56 (OBAMA ... Orwell's 1984 was a WARNING ... NOT a TEXTBOOK!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Schnucki

Headline: Non-Muslim Americans Support a Fatwa Prohibiting Muslims from Visiting or Living on American Soil, or from Flying on Any Public Airline.


37 posted on 02/12/2010 7:39:35 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lazamataz

Let them stick with their old technology... what mohammed endorsed.

Camelback.


38 posted on 02/12/2010 7:39:53 AM PST by himno hero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: cookcounty

Wasn’t the Muslim exception the reason why the BVD Bomber was able to get his undies on the plane?


39 posted on 02/12/2010 7:40:03 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Kakaze
This is about one thing, being able to stuff explosives in a body cavity and not be detected.

Body scanners do not see inside the body. It's not an MRI...

40 posted on 02/12/2010 7:44:44 AM PST by green iguana
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-76 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson