SOUTHFIELD, MI (Michigan Radio) – A group of Muslim religious scholars has issued a religious document saying that airport body scanners violate Islamic law.
The Fiqh Council of North America issued a Fatwa telling Muslims to avoid the scanners because of Islamic teachings regarding nudity.
There are currently 40 scanners in U.S. airports. The Transportation Security Administration plans to add over 400 more this year, after the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day. The suspect in that case, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is a Nigerian Muslim.
Dawud Walid is Director of Michigan’s Council on American Islamic Relations. He supports the fatwa because scanners violate Islamic standards of modesty. “We’re not allowed to be seen by people of the opposite gender, unless it’s for an extreme emergency, like a medical emergency,” Walid says.
Walid says an acceptable alternative would be a pat-down by a same-gender security guard. The TSA says it already offers that option.
It will be interesting to see if the Politically Correct crowd gets behind this.
And no one to tall ya, that THIS BODY SCANNER would not have worked on this bomber??
LMAO..
I like the church lady better. I don’t think she ever issued a fatwa.
#3. Come on, that’s a lady? Look at the Adam’s apple!
Oh, this is too good!
Ok, refuse a body scan if you’re Muslim.
Good. Then they will have to get the full body search instead.
Not allowed either?
Great. NO FLY FOR YOU!!
Problem solved.
So they can’t board at American airports? America has discovered a muslim repellent? Awesome!
WE ARE DELIVERED ONCE AGAIN!
Ya! G*D!
I realize this is a huge generalization, but some in their culture kind of brought this upon themselves.
Don’t bomb in the first place and this may never have come about.
I think you are all misunderstanding the principle. I absolutely agree with the fatwa because I am a member of a sect of marijuana smokers who don’t believe in sniffer dogs. We refuse to have our luggage defiled by those lousy, rotten sniffer dogs. You can just take our word that there is no drugs in there. Right?
This is so stupid. If they don’t like them just point out that they don’t frekin’ work!
Ironies of all Ironies
I can envision Obama and Eric Holder deciding that the body scanner is a violation of the Muslim’s religious rights.
And end up with Muslims avoiding the scanner while Americans* end up having their nude photos passed around by the TSA.
(* and yes, Bobo, I know there are Muslim Americans)
It doubt it is only conservative Muslims who won’t like these million dollar version of the “X Ray Specs” they used to sell in comic books for a buck.
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Just wait until a scan of Jennifer Aniston gets posted on the web.
Still waiting on the fatwa banning mass murder in the name of Islam of civilians simply because they are not the same exact religion as you.
Well, since “politically correct” = right wing — which is obvious, since only right wing legislation can make it out of Washington, and the media is entirely dominated by 4 conservatives for every 1 liberal — then I doubt it.
Islam resembles christianity so much. It has no problem with murder and killing, but the moment you can see somebody’s pee-pee they complain bitterly.
I am disgusted by the idea of TSA agents staring at my naked body.
And so are the 1000s of women that I’ve e-mailed naked photos of myself to. At least, that’s what their lawyers tell me.
Some of the 9/11 ‘muslims’ went to a strip joint before boarding (not allowed) so as usual the only people this would effect are not a threat to you.
They could also do what many religious people do, pick and choose what already suits their beliefs and ignore the rest.
I’m sure the fundie Christians will get their panties in a knot when they see this.
It’s the fundie mindset, Christian or Muslim, doesn’t matter.
If it violates their religious laws then it really would not be fair to subject them to this.
A simple solution would be if someone is Muslim they can skip the scanner. Everyone else would get scanned and that would cover most of us.
McCullough pondered: “It will be interesting to see if the Politically Correct crowd gets behind this.”
Hell yes! They’ll be behind it like flies on turd.
And you people said moderate Muslims don’t say a word regarding the work of the extremists. You see, they do care!
#17 Saved by the bell to be called sheeple today. Only one thing wrong with your statement, you are part of the PC crowd, so your lame attempt at deflection is labeled as FAIL!
#17 Oh and one more thing! You said: “It’s the fundie mindset, Christian or Muslim, doesn’t matter.”
You have no idea how much I agree with you.
The bad news for you, loyal doggie, is that religions are not the only thing filled with fundies. After all, religious true believers are nothing but sheeple.