With the holidays fast approaching, the TSA has announced new security procedures requiring passengers selected for secondary screening to go through a machine that produces a full body scan producing a nude but grainy, black and white image. Passengers choosing to opt out of the scan will face a full body pat.
The head of Homeland Security has indicated the government is considering the request of an Islamic organization that has suggested Muslim women be allowed to pat themselves down during a full body search that is part of new enhanced procedures at airports.
Since implementing the procedures, numerous complaints have arisen that the search is not a “pat-down” but rather feeling and grabbing along a person’s genitalia and other areas until they meet resistance. Critics have said the pat-downs would be considered sexual assault if performed elsewhere.
The TSA defends the procedures as necessary in light of last years “underwear bomber” and the recent issues involving printer cartridges being used in an attempt to blow up cargo planes.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, has expressed concern with the TSA over the regulations and recommended special procedures for dealing with Muslim women. The organization issued a travel advisory for Muslims over the procedure.
In the advisory CAIR advises all Muslims to contact them and file a complaint with the TSA if they experience any “disturbing incidents” with the new procedures and they feel they have been unfairly singled out for screening.
It goes on to make special recommendations for Muslim women wearing a hijab covering their face. The advisory says women are to inform the officer they are only to pat down the head and neck and says “They should not subject you to a full-body or partial body pat-down.” They also recommend that women should be permitted to pat themselves down and “have the officers perform a chemical swipe of your hands.”
Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Czar, Janet Napolitano, is considering changes to the procedures to address the issues raised by CAIR.
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9 comments:
Typical progressive allowing special rights for some but not all. Insane she will let the terrorists on and sexually harass children.
Guess we could all wear muslin attair when we fly.....who's gonna know the difference? Can't believe she could even consider this!
riiiiiight, we wouldn't want to inconvenience any MUSLIMS, would we?? I mean, how likely is it that muslim terrorists would try something in american airports (AGAIN)?? Meanwhile, keep "randomly" selecting my 90 year old grandmother and infant daughter for additional screening. I feel safer already!!
Discrimination !
wow. We're really going in to an abyss here.
Next, I guess Napolitano will let them operate the scan machine also so they can let all their male friends thru. How ridiculous can she get. Make them go thru the same procedures as everyone else or they can't get on the plane, period.
lets just put sudam in office why dont we. This is what we get for not putting someone in office who lives by THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA My grandfather would have a fit
How ironic: we're NOT going to screen members of the one group of people known to want to destroy US airliners, but we ARE going to screen the rest of us. I was patted down in Philadelphia a couple days ago.
Seriously????!
All of the terrorists since 911 have been muslim....so we aren't going to check muslims as closely as we check grandma?
With the burka that covers the entire body a man could pass through the airport "disguised" as a woman - who would know? You can see a thing on their body.
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