Posted on 03/03/2010 10:31:57 AM PST by Steelfish
Muslim Woman Barred From Flight After Refusing Body Scan A Muslim woman is thought to have become the first passenger to be stopped from boarding a flight after refusing to go through a full body scanner for religious reasons.
03 Mar 2010
Civil liberties campaigners have criticised the scanners as an invasion of privacy. The passenger was at Manchester Airport for a flight to Islamabad when she was selected at random to pass through the security screen.
She was warned she would not be allowed to board the Pakistan International Airlines flight if she did not comply with the request but she decided to forfeit her ticket.
Her female travelling companion also left the airport after she cited ''medical reasons'' for not wanting to go through the scanner.
More than 15,000 people have already passed through the £80,000 Rapiscan machine at the airport's Terminal 2. The Government introduced the scanner at Heathrow and Manchester airports last month.
Security staff use the X-ray machine to check for any concealed weapons or explosives but it has attracted criticism for also showing clear outlines of passengers' genitals. Civil liberties campaigners have criticised the scanners as an invasion of privacy.
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Guess she stayed home.. by her choice
Good. Flying on a commercial airliner is a privilege, not a right. If you don’t follow the rules you should not be expected to be allowed to board.
How much better news would this be:
Muslims Barred From Flight
I guess these things finally worked for once.
She should have been arrested and cavity searched.
If I, a white male refused???? I would have been beaten with a baton and then searched.
Just where I want to exercise my civil liberties: at an airport security screening. Somebody is unclear on the concept.
I don’t ever want to be on a plane with any muslim, for any reason. I don’t care if they have been stripped searched, x-rayed, and put on the plane butt naked, if a muslim is on, I want off.
And no...I wouldn't give a rat's hindquarters if she is also a UK citizen.
Stupid is as stupid does. At least the rest of the passengers were safe. Cut through the BS. This woman didn’t want to follow the law, she doesn’t fly. End of story.
Her kind are the reasons why I have to remove my shoes before boarding, cant use my laptop nor read an hour before landind and place all my liquids in a small plastic bag.
F’ her and stay home.
Exactly
Does ‘Medical Reasons’ mean accelerants in the purse?
you lost me on this one. Have to go and listen to the ONE lie again.
I do have some sympathy for this position. Females checking over the female scans would solve it for me.
You are in a public venue to use public transportation. What part of the definition of public don’t these idiots understand.
don’t blame her....the full body scan’s are ridiculous...
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