WHY BODY SCANNERS ARE A GOOD THING
Islamic scholars have forbidden Muslim travellers from passing through full body scans at airports because they violate religious rules on nudity.
The Fiqh Council of North America issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, yesterday warning Muslims not to go through the scanners. ‘It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women,’ .
I guess if all Muslims DO follow this advice, body scanners will give us 100% protection?
I suspect there will be a compromise…
Whilst I agree that muslims are in no position to dictate security policy and am nauseated by muslims constantly whining over every imagined imposition on their freedom (whilst working very hard to snuff out everyone elses) I personally am deeply upset by the introduction of the scanners.
Regardless of what muslims say, personal privacy and modesty are very important and the prospect of my wife and I having to be scanned in this manner sickens me. I would not allow my wife to be scanned like this by a man and guess therefore that we would not be allowed to fly should she be unfortunate enough to be picked.
What really angers me is that the 99.9999999999% of people who undergo this humility are perfectly harmless and I have heard it questioned whether a body scanner would have prevented the christmas day underpants bomber!
Western government bureaucracy is so dumb. Ironically, whilst the Israelis are the most targeted people in the world by the Jihadists, they don’t suffer antyhing like the humiliation and inconvenience that we agree to put up with. We need to get smart and be like the Israelis. To read a very interesting news article on how the Israelis do it use the following link:
http://www.thestar.com/iphone/news/world/article/744199—israelification-high-security-little-bother