Washington – The Transportation Security Administration says airline passengers won’t get out of body imaging screening or pat-downs based on their religious beliefs.
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TSA chief John Pistole told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that passengers who refuse to go through a whole-body scanner machine and get a pat-down won’t be allowed on planes, even if they turned down the in-depth screening for religious reasons.
Civil rights groups contend the more intensive screening violates rights including freedom of religion. The issue is getting new attention after a man posted an item online saying he was thrown out of the San Diego airport for rejecting a full-body scan and pat-down groin check and insisting he go through a metal detector instead.
They are so right. Tomorrow an al-Qaida agent will refuse airport screening and claim the best religious reason: Muhammad told him to blow up the plane.
Implement profiling. In the meantime, my family and I will take the train.
Hurry up, think next train to israel is leaving at 8:30..
Yeah right just wait til a muslim lady in a burqa they won’t even try to give her a pat down. The radical group CAIR will be up and arms if you go near a muslim.
If you reject the security standards than take the train or simply stay home. I’m frum and my wife and I don’t understand the hangups about these scanners. We fly frequently both domestically and overseas and have learned to put up with the inconvenience of security lines and pat downs. I’d rather not have to deal with but its preferable to having some terrorist get on my plane because he claimed to be the Vishnitzer tebbe and was exempt from being screened.
Another day – another layer of personal freedoms disappear in the “name” of security. Haven’t we seen this before?
I rather have someone like a mikvah lady, someone jewish touch me, than someone lower class, GED, rude TSA worker. TSA provide us with people of our own religion. And provide us religious people with a private room. Think about women in skirts, They raise the skirts in public, in front of all men, just touch the female private area. Did you realize this? TSA works are allowed to touch our private region in public in front of everyone with the front of their hands. TSA needs to offer us religious men and women some options.
“Airline passengers won’t get out of body imaging screening or pat-downs based on their religious beliefs.”
This man is one hundred per cent correct. If potential passengers (of any religion) do not or will not comply with the rules then they must be refused access to aircraft.
And… Lo and behold , Muslims have the chutzpah and audacity to complain. Instead of trying to talk sense into the suicide bomber brothers and shutting up, they complain something about religion. What , who, where , which religion. I couldn’t agree more , don’t get screened, don’t fly. Period.
When a person has to be checked at a doctor’s office for his own protection does he worry about his privacy? It’s like going to a doctor. They have it in isolated chambers and the images are not kept. Bideeved it’s not a problem. That’s my “psak.”
And the terrorists have won.
This scanner and pat down system is an indication of the failure of the US security system.
They won’t implement the profiling approach of the Israelis which is the most logical and effective system so we are stuck with this lame scanner and pat down approach.
No exceptions should be allowed. The Islamic radicals will plant bombs on 3 years olds and infants and anything else that can get on board a plane.
Security trumps religion as well it should.
To echo some of the others here, you don’t like it then don’t fly. The rest us are happy with these necessary security procedures.
he is right
Is it just me? The main reason I fly is for the free pat down. Alright, maybe not the main reason; but definitely top 10!
Why don’t they just get a scanner that detonates any bombs on a person, within an isolated explosion chamber? That would solve all the problems here.
The issue here is being missed. The question you all should be asking, is whether these porno-scanners are effective in stopping terrorism, and the answer is no. Why are they not effective? Because they don’t see anything underneath a bosom or a big belly hanging over, or in a body cavity, or in your mouth, etcetera. As it stands, these machines (bought by taxpayers) have overturned the individual’s right to not be subject to unnecessary searches, and this is a strip search. If you all want to roll over, and throw out your rights for a little bit of imagined security, go ahead. But don’t do it on my tax dollar, especially when this is all security theater, and will not stop the professional terrorists at all.
Will someone kindly explain to me the meaning of “GED” in the context of this thread, please?
You may still board the QE2 to London. Much more enjoyable than air travel too. From London, you can take a civilised ElAl flight free of fondling and ogling.
Anybody else think that their heimishe daughters should be exposed to a filthy TSA staff, or manhandled by one? Is this going to help us be safer?
Big meeting in Washington today, email or call our Senators about this!!!