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Canadians outraged: Veiled Muslim women not required to lift veil, prove ID at airports
Homeland Security Newswire ^ | November 23, 2010

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....


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: airports; canada; crushislam; doublestandard; islam; izlam; obama; palin; terror; terrorism; violence
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To: -YYZ-
First paragraph of the post I excerpted. What is unclear about this?

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.

61 posted on 11/23/2010 11:59:54 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia
Surprised this happened in Montreal ... Toronto would be my guess. Quebec gov’t has made it very clear to Muslim types immigrating to the province that you will assimilate, if not, you're invited to leave ... Ontario is always looking for a few good Muslim types.
62 posted on 11/23/2010 12:00:14 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: Hodar

Fingernail polish or bloody fingernails...that is the question!


63 posted on 11/23/2010 12:09:42 PM PST by lonestar
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To: red irish

Here you go. Notice the TSA employee is wearing Muslim garb.

64 posted on 11/23/2010 12:13:57 PM PST by itsahoot (We the people allowed Republican leadership to get us here, only God's Grace can get us out.)
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To: La Lydia

Those flights should be turned back. US law requires all airlines to indentify people on incoming flights. That doesn’t mean accepting documents from a third party.


65 posted on 11/23/2010 12:14:35 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: La Lydia

Exactly. I don’t know what the TSA is thinking. They are morons. It’s much easier to board and flight elsewhere that is coming TO the U.S. Then tigger the explosives over the U.S.


66 posted on 11/23/2010 12:22:01 PM PST by mojitojoe (In itÂ’s 1600 years of existence, Islam has 2 main accomplishments, psychotic violence and goat curr)
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To: La Lydia

Coming soon to a nation near you. :)


67 posted on 11/23/2010 12:22:56 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: wagglebee; BykrBayb; DJ MacWoW; little jeremiah; xzins; P-Marlowe; trisham

Get a load of this.

Our future.


68 posted on 11/23/2010 12:34:46 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Maverick68; La Lydia
Flashback: Our Canadian friends calling us stupid for electing Bush.
Apparently, their elected leaders are functioning morons.

Americans quite understandably get the general view of Canadians possibly from a liberal infested media. Up until a few years ago, the dissenting Canadian did not have a chance, unless happening to go one on one with an American who would listen. We have a feisty little blog site which has the statement. "They(media) say what Canadians think"- in all that time they have never asked me.

Please excuse the rant but I must indicate more. During the last presidential election, the two tax payer funded monoliths in television CTV and more so CBC, openly and shamelessly shilled for Barack Obama. This with 80,000 American expats who had the right to vote in that election. An absolute ethical crime, if not downright against the rules.

That time they did not call Americans stupid. Indeed no. As of late, they do not seem to be throwing their underwear at the winning candidate. No, they are concentrating on the Republicans in a dismissive way, 'specially Sarah.

I concede your point, we in Canada are almost paralyzed by political correctness. We are paying a price. The exceptions are out their though, witness Ezra Levant and others.

69 posted on 11/23/2010 1:29:03 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: Peter Libra
Correction:

The exceptions are out there though, witness Ezra Levant and others.

70 posted on 11/23/2010 1:33:09 PM PST by Peter Libra
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To: La Lydia

Fantastic way to lose a war. and it is a religious, psychological, economic and bloody war! Let’s send hams to their mailboxes, they’ll have to move.


71 posted on 11/23/2010 1:36:28 PM PST by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: bergmeid

I came through Seattle 3 years ago and the answer was no - they are not even searched when they come to the USA


72 posted on 11/23/2010 1:42:10 PM PST by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE)
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To: red irish

Yup. . if ever I see a muslime nun get on a flight without getting the grope, I’m getting off the jet. . .oh wait. . .there are NO muslime nuns. . . nevermind.


73 posted on 11/23/2010 1:46:09 PM PST by Hulka
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To: La Lydia

BO & Big Sis have exempted muslim women as well.


74 posted on 11/23/2010 1:56:57 PM PST by FS11
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To: ElkGroveDan

Or better yet, EVERYONE refuses to go through the scanner or be humiliated by being sexually assaulted.


75 posted on 11/23/2010 2:00:30 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: La Lydia

And they could very well be men under those veils with explosives strapped to them. Ain`t political correctness grand?


76 posted on 11/23/2010 2:31:19 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: red irish


Shouldn't your FReeper name be orange irish?
77 posted on 11/23/2010 3:04:37 PM PST by Beckwith (A "natural born citizen" -- two American citizen parents and born in the USA.)
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To: metmom; wagglebee; little jeremiah; BykrBayb; xzins; P-Marlowe

It’s frightening. I’m am so grateful that we don’t have to fly anywhere in the near future, but some people have to fly. They have no choice.


78 posted on 11/23/2010 3:22:50 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: red irish

I haven’t heard of nuns getting a pass. Do you have a link?


79 posted on 11/23/2010 3:25:09 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Beckwith

Indeed.


80 posted on 11/23/2010 3:26:23 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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