After December’s underwear bomber incident in an airplane over Detroit full body scanners are popping up in airports all over the country. The main purpose of this technology is to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from trying the same stunt again. Well, the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) believes using the body scanners violates their religion.
The TSA, when confronted by CAIR in this regard, immediately capitulated, thus giving in in the face of yet another Islamic threat. Simultaneously, the TSA agreed to instruct its security staff, in enforcing the same tortuous security measures for everyone but Muslims, to ‘pat down’ Muslim men and women, with the proviso, of course, that only same gender ‘pat downs’ would be permitted for our Muslim brethren.
The TSA is forcing law abiding Americans to go through a scanner under the pretense that it’s supposed to prevent terrorists from smuggling bombs in their clothing. No one is exempt from this scanner because we don’t want to profile anyone; however, thanks to CAIR, Muslims are exempt upon request from using the scanner. I guess some Muslims do not want to be profiled unless they can use the profile to claim something violates their religion. This is so absurd it defies reality. This is like something from The Onion.
I can’t find any other details about this except from this one source, so I’m a little skeptical; however, the government is stupid enough to do something like this. Even if the TSA is allowing anyone to “opt-out” and get patted down instead, the whole rush to add all these scanners is absurd. Either make them mandatory or don’t install them.
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