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Indian Minister Asks Obama To End Turban Frisking
cbs13.com/wireapnational ^ | 11/9/10 | KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press

Posted on 11/09/2010 7:22:39 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

NEW DELHI (AP) ― An Indian lawmaker from Punjab said Tuesday she had asked President Barack Obama to put a stop to the U.S. border practice of frisking Sikh turbans.

Sikhs worldwide have long protested the American security measure as discriminatory and unnecessary in a world with machines for body scanning and metal detection.

New U.S. guidelines put into effect two weeks ago no longer require air passengers to remove turbans if doing so makes them uncomfortable, the U.S. Transport Security Administration said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbs13.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: end; frisking; obama; turban
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1 posted on 11/09/2010 7:22:42 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Well lets put the plastic explosive there then!!!
No more panty bombers, now its the urban turban bomber!


2 posted on 11/09/2010 7:25:07 AM PST by 9422WMR (Illegal is not a race)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Well, those pics of mad mo with the turban fuse lit might have something to do with it.


3 posted on 11/09/2010 7:25:47 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

AS if a Muslim terrorist is incapable of donning a Sikh turban for the mission. It’s not like he has to wear it for very long.


4 posted on 11/09/2010 7:26:53 AM PST by Sherman Logan (You shall know the truth, and it shall piss you off)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
I didn't know Senator Durbin the Turbin was being frisked.
5 posted on 11/09/2010 7:28:03 AM PST by hflynn (The One has been reduced to the Zero)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

I fairly well trust Sikhs. But is it so hard to imagine that someone might *pretend* to be a Sikh? Is this amazingly naive man really the leader of one of the worlds most populous nations?


6 posted on 11/09/2010 7:33:15 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: 9422WMR

You took the words right out of my mouth. As it stands now, (according to the article) they don’t have to remove turbins if they “feel” “uncomfortable,” now Obama will use this bullcrap political correctness garbage to ease the way for terrorists. Then underwear and sneakers won’t have to be used.

NEXT...they will ask Holder and Obama to let all muslims skip security in airports and they will tell them ok.


7 posted on 11/09/2010 7:33:39 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Even worse Indian screening?


8 posted on 11/09/2010 7:33:59 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Sherman Logan

Exactly but that common sensical thought is above Obama’s paygrade.


9 posted on 11/09/2010 7:35:07 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

We thought Obama was a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address,” complained one Indian official to the Hindustan Times.


10 posted on 11/09/2010 7:35:14 AM PST by Broker (No RETREAT)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

There is a tag line in there somewhere....


11 posted on 11/09/2010 7:36:30 AM PST by alarm rider (The left will always tell you who they fear the most. What are they telling you now?)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Makes sense in this topsy-turvy world. Don’t touch the turban, but it’s okay to touch the boobs and genitalia and pose for full-body scans.


12 posted on 11/09/2010 7:37:22 AM PST by Helen
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

If muzzie terrorists can pose as American secularists (as the 19 9/11 hijackers did), they sure as shootin’ can pose as Indian Sikhs!!!!


13 posted on 11/09/2010 7:38:51 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: DesertRhino

Obama is a radical idiot that could not lead his way out of a paper bag and his warped effed up radical ideologies that he got from being raised as a communist,muslim,Farrakhan,Revie Wright hate whitey fool,Peter Pan,idiotic man; that even sucks as a liberal professor ACORN Chicago thug mob boss. Will think that he has to denounce America and enable terrorists.

The big eared POS has no concept other than himSELF!


14 posted on 11/09/2010 7:41:36 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Broker

LOL his teleprompter should just be programmed to say ahhhhhh ummmmmmmmmm ahhh ummmm LOOK! ahhhhhhh Ummmmm LOOK! and just let the nut job commie Soro’s speak.


15 posted on 11/09/2010 7:44:33 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Sikhs have LONG HAIR all wrapped up in that turban. It is a long involved process, made quick only by daily practice.

The guys point was that with metal detectors, bomb sniffers, and body scanners - the business of mucking about with turbans is unnecessary. (Unless they opt out and require a pat down, at which point I say, “search the turban”).

Some of it may well also be the result of the ALL too common “Turban = Muslim” mistake. Not that I think the TSA is keen enough on the idea of a reasonable assessment of risk, but once they “randomly” screen a guy with a turban - I imagine an overly enthused TSA screener may well think “We might have a live one here!” and go the extra mile on a guy who hates Islamic terror as much or more than any American.

16 posted on 11/09/2010 7:51:08 AM PST by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Go ahead: frisk 'em.

17 posted on 11/09/2010 7:55:48 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
New U.S. guidelines put into effect two weeks ago no longer require air passengers to remove turbans if doing so makes them uncomfortable

Whaaat!? What if they're moslems?

Screw 'em if it makes them uncomfortable...let em take a taxi.

And TSA, leave obvious normal Americans the hell alone.

18 posted on 11/09/2010 8:04:54 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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No... If my ass is fondled in the name of security... if I am stripped naked by x-rays... then they can take the towel off of their heads.

LLS


19 posted on 11/09/2010 8:16:31 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

I’ve seen business men asked to take off their jackets,belts,ties,vests. Women asked to remove sweaters,coats,vests, hair adornments, hair extensions. Babies and diaper bags gone through like criminals. Even nuns given a harder time.And robes and turbins just lightly sweeped with a wand-maybe.

BOTTOM LINE Political Correctness has gone too far.

With the new nekid scanner (which I have been asked to do; it was pre marked on my boarding ticket.) these things may change but they better change for everybody and not just turbins and robes and what not.


20 posted on 11/09/2010 8:17:02 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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