Posted on 11/23/2010 10:19:01 AM PST by La Lydia
Canadian airport security personnel do not ask veiled Muslims women to lift their veils, show and ID, and prove their identity; the veiled women do not even interact with security personnel: rather, a man traveling with the women typically hands in all the passports and is the only one to communicate with airline staff while the veiled women simply walk through, unchecked and unidentified; a video showing two veiled women walking unchecked through security at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport causes outrage in Canada.
Frequent flyers know the drill well: take off your shoes, surrender your tweezers, and pack your shampoo in those little plastic baggies before lining up for the naked body scanners. How about lifting your niqab? Apparently not.
The Toronto Sun’s Brian Lilley and Bryn Weese write that neither airlines nor security services are asking Muslim women to lift their veils and prove that the face beneath matches their photo ID.
The issue came to light through a video taken by Mick Flynn of Bradford, England. Flynn was boarding a flight at Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport when he witnessed two women with their faces covered board an Air Canada Heathrow-bound flight without being asked to remove their veils.
In fact, in the video that Flynn has posted online, a man traveling with the women hands in all the passports and is the only one to interact with airline staff while two veiled women simply walk through.
“I complained at the desk — and again as I boarded the plane — asking if the pilot was happy that two women boarded without being identified,” Flynn told QMI News Agency. “Both members of staff whom I spoke to were flustered and clearly embarrassed.”...
Lawyer David Harris of INSIGNIS Strategic Research says Canadians should be concerned about what he deems preferential treatment. “Full veiling has been a boon for those participating in criminal and terrorist operations,” Harris said pointing to the story of Mustaf Jama.
Jama, a Somali national with a long criminal record, was wanted in Britain for the 2006 murder of police constable Sharon Beshenivsky. As police closed in to arrest the career criminal, Jama was able to escape back to Somalia by wearing a full veil and boarding a flight at Heathrow airport....
Exactly, I will be finding my “outfit” before flying to Florida next summer!
Don’t pay any attention to that man behind the curtain
Is Canada’s President a Muslim too?
Yuck.
What this article doesn’t mention is whether these women were able to get through the security screening without proving their identity. What’s described in this article happened at the gate, at which point everyone has (presumably) already been security screened. Still not right, of course.
Stephen Harper, Canada’s conservative PRIME MINISTER, is affiliated with the “Christian and Missionary Alliance,” an Evangelical Protestant denomination.
It also means that we have not taken off our kneepads and continue to kiss up to Islam.
At least we could wear them again during hunting season...after we've beat the TSA infidels.
Allahu ak...er, I mean...Screw You TSA lovers of camels! May the fleas of a thousand sheep infest your blue uniforms!
Good point.
Not lifting the veil? biometric scan, or no flight, PLUS they have to be frisked or they can have bombs on their bum.
Maybe the rest of the passengers should have taken it on themselves to conduct the search the authorities refused to do.
There, fixed it...
Interesting point. What happens when these women show up at US Customs at the US airport of arrival? Do we even require them to lift their veils so we can get a look at them? Does anyone know?
The Muslims caused the terrorism via air travel problem, and now they get preferential treatment(??) Something is beyond wrong with this picture.
The excerpt posted did not make that clear, nor was it clear that it was only an excerpt of the whole article.
Apparently CATSA security people don’t feel this is their role, either, but the airlines thought that it was. I think all this stuff about how the veil is part of their religion is bull, and I really wish we, as a society, would stand up for once and say “There is one set of rules for everyone, regardless of your personal beliefs.”
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