Ignorant, politically correct people's reaction -
"Okay."
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
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DesertConservative issues a fatwah against Muslim-American bodies.
(Islam) Don’t want to go through the body scanner ? Too bad, you can’t fly or you need to get stripped searched.
Either one (or both) works fine for me.
You get on the plane, and they hand you a pack of Marlboros, and your choice of a bottle of Jack or a .45.
It would be the safest and most pleasant airline in the air, and would likely make money hand over fist.
so simple- just make a new TSA regulation- all passengers have to use the restrooms in order to make the plane lighter before take-off. Build scanners into the restroom doorways and they won`t even know what hit `em. No problem
Now if we can only figure out a way to full-body-scan everyone in this country, the muslims will leave and we can get back to our normal lives.
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Since the administration is convinced that nothing they do could possibly violate the constitution we should just require that all Americans must eat pork and play with a dog in front of witnesses at least once a year. Anyone who refuses can leave the country.
I would add pet a dog to the list.
Thanks for the ping Oorang.
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Then they can take their flying carpet.
DAILY TIMES.co.pk: Rawalpindi - "TERRORISTS DEVELOP 'SUICIDE UNDERWEAR'" by Imran Asghar (SNIPPET: "Would-be suicide bombers could be using explosives "underwear briefs" rather than explosives jackets to evade "conservative" body searches, sources said on Wednesday. Sihala Police College forensic lab sources told Daily Times that the study of recent suicide attacks showed that suicide bombers used "explosives-laden" under-garments, briefs in particular, to carry out the attacks. The sources said that the explosives could weigh between five kilogrammes to seven kilogrammes, made deadly by adding glass splinters, metal ball bearings and bullets.") (July 31, 2008)
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BINARY EXPLOSIVES: FROM DISCUSSION TO IMPLEMENTATION
INTERNET HAGANAH.com ^ | December 26, 2009 | Aaron Weisburd
Posted on December 26, 2009 2:37:05 PM PST by Cindy
SNIPPET: “Discussion: I first observed discussion of binary explosives on the al-Firdaws forum in January of 2007. In light of recent events I will post here my archive:”
SNIPPET: “Implementation: On Christmas Day, 2009, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab boards a flight in Amsterdam, bound for Detroit, and on final descent he attempts to set off what was most likely a binary explosive. Thank goodness he either screwed up or had bad instructions, because the chemicals he was working with were evidently quite good.”
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These people are nuts. How is someone feeling you up more modest than an impersonal body scan? They don’t want to be scanned, then don’t fly. Many other ways to travel.
Wish someone would tell them they have to take that fatwa and stick it where the sun don’t shine.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/02/jihadist-chatter-online-places-renewed-emphasis-on-evading-western-airport-security.html
(CBS NEWS, February 12, 2010)
“Jihadist “chatter” online shows “marked increase” in discussions about evading airport security”
Thread bump.
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