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.
I am against them too. While I’m not a muslim I think the best solution would be full frontal and rear nudity at airports, with a scanner stuck up the rear end of anyone objecting.
You want to get on a plane, get naked and hand your garments to a TSI person who will put your name on them, plastic bag them, and return them to you at your destination.
Lost luggage would then be an important part of life when flying to a cold location wouldn’t it.
I would much prefer to sit on a plane with 300 naked Arabs, than with one who nestles his balls in plastic explosives.
How about a special line for split-tail?
#16, the 9/11 hijackers went to strip clubs because they were “Takfiri”. Essentially they were martyrs given special permissions by their “leaders” to hang out with single women, drink, go to strip clubs, etc… as long as they purified themselves with ritual, prayer and fasting before they went on their suicide mission.
#20 You’re so cute, little pedro. The anti-loyal little doggie. Whatever Obama says, you’re against it. Cute but predictable.
BTW, criticized any Republicans lately? No, I thought not. Someday maybe you’ll muster up some courage and admit you’re a Republican. But until you grow up and grow a pair, you can play your transparent little charade.
Little children pretending to be tough guys… sheesh.
#24 Ahahahahahaha. You’re the most pathetic of the sheeples here. Keep telling that to yourself.
Repeat after me: Biden didn’t say that; Obama didn’t stick with Dumbya’s defense secretary; Obama didn’t send more troops to the middle east.
Repeat that 2000 times and you’ll be able to sleep soundly tonight.
#25 Dang, sorry you’re having trouble sleeping there little pedro. Guess whatever you’re repeating to yourself 2000 times isn’t working?
Maybe having a little integrity and honesty would help with that.
#26 You get hilarious by the minute.
Yeah, right. Is me the one who cannot sleep at night ’cause I voted for a bag of empty promises, whom I keep defending everyday regardless of being so far off track with his “change”.
Poor sheeple!
THIS is an example of an (almost) self-regulating phenomena. If you are a religious extremist, you are both prone to terrorist acts on planes and banned by your own extremism to (follow the rules to) board planes.
I for one don’t care who sees my fat naked x-rayed body if that means feeling safer on a plane.
Of course, now we must find a way to screen out the terrorist that poses as an religious extremist, and is in the suicide business only because of the afterlife 40000 virgins.
And do the same for trains and subways (remember Arnold on Total Recall?)