Fatwa issued against airport body scanners

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Muslim-American body issues fatwa against airport body scanners
IANS, 12 February 2010, 12:47pm


WASHINGTON: Some Muslim-American groups are supporting a fatwa issued by a body of Islamic scholars forbidding Muslims from going through full body scanners at airports, a media report said.

The Fiqh Council of North America issued the religious ruling this week that says going through the airport scanners would violate Islamic rules on modesty, Free Press reported.

"It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women," reads the fatwa issued Tuesday. "Islam highly emphasises haya (modesty) and considers it part of faith. The Quran has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts."

After the Christmas Day bombing attempt in Detroit by a Muslim suspect from Nigeria, some US airports are now in the process of buying and using the body scanners to find explosives and other dangerous materials carried by terrorists.

But Muslim groups say the scanners, which show in graphic detail the outlines of a person's body, go against their religion. One option offered to passengers who don't want to use the scanners would be a pat down by a security guard. The Muslim groups are urging members to undergo those instead.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says it endorses the fatwa. "We support the Fiqh Council's statement on full-body scanners and believe that the religious and privacy rights of passengers can be respected while maintaining safety and security," Nihad Awad, national executive director of CAIR was quoted as saying.

Currently, there are 40 full-body scanners at 19 airports in the US, including two in Detroit, said spokesman Jim Fotenos of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). There are plans for 450 more body scanners in US airports, he said.

In a statement, the TSA said it is committed to keeping passengers safe and also protecting their privacy.

"TSA's mission is to keep the travelling public safe. Advanced imaging technologies are an important tool in a multi-layered security system to detect evolving threats such as improvised explosive devices.

"TSA's use of these technologies includes strong protections in place to safeguard passenger privacy. Screening images are automatically deleted, and the officer viewing the image will never see the passenger."

The TSA stressed that the body scanners are "optional to all passengers". Those who turn them down, "will receive equivalent screening that may include a physical pat-down, hand-wanding, and other technologies".

"Physical pat-downs are performed by transportation security Officers of the same sex as the passenger in a private screening area, if the passenger requests."

Body scanners "do not produce photos", the agency said. Rather, the images "look like chalk outlines".

 

[scroobal]

Political Correctness gone mad. Just them send back and I am sure the citizens will chip in to pay. Also visas are only to be issued if body scans are acceptable.

 

[UltimaOnline]

These body scans cause cancer. Better to choose to submit to a physical search.

 

[Highfalutin]

"It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women," reads the fatwa issued Tuesday. "Islam highly emphasises haya (modesty) and considers it part of faith. The Quran has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts."

I remember at the height of PAS religious fundamentalist practices in Kelantan. A woman doctor was reported to have used a pencil instead of her fingers to examine a body in diagnosing procedures.

How to exist together in the face of such incompatibility? If only the Earth can separate like a human cell, than we can all live out our mindset. Separately.

 

[kensington]

I remember at the height of PAS religious fundamentalist practices in Kelantan. A woman doctor was reported to have used a pencil instead of her fingers to examine a body in diagnosing procedures.

That was an UMNO's doctor,100%. PAS is neither stupid nor sanctimonious.

 

[Glaringly]

How to exist together in the face of such incompatibility? If only the Earth can separate like a human cell, than we can all live out our mindset. Separately.

How nice, if the world is separated out between those who believe the man in the sky and those who do not. I for one, gives no 2 hood to that faceless soul, my life is my business, period.

 

[kiwibird7]

The MUSLIMS indeed have the GALL to complain and even issue FATWAS!

ALL of the threats to air travel has been an ISLAMIC fanatic. Why must bona fide NON MUSLIM travellers have to SUFFER all the hassle of heightened Airport security, made to show up at airports many hours earlier for extra screening and now exposed to extra radiation and to top it all; PAY higher airport surcharges?

I say, use PIGSKIN leather for all the airplane seats and make all AEROPLANES NON HALAL!

 

[garlic]

So, what does a fatwa look like? will the fatwa be like a sticker or lable and pasted or printed on the scanners?

 

[Leongsam]

If these body scanners stop all muslims from stepping on a plane, they'll be considered an absolute godsend.

 

[IR123]

Jihad.

Fatwas.


Ironical.

 

[Highfalutin]

That was an UMNO's doctor,100%. PAS is neither stupid nor sanctimonious.

If that's true, thank you for the correction. Now I know why a friend of mine told me to go to Kelantan to see for yourself that PAS does not cut off your heads just because you are an "infidel".

 

[kensington]

If that's true, thank you for the correction. Now I know why a friend of mine told me to go to Kelantan to see for yourself that PAS does not cut off your heads just because you are an "infidel".

PAS is a very pragmatic but fundamental party at the same time. Sounds kind of oxymoronic. They hold true to their belief but at the same time they will never used their religion sanctimoniously as the SOP of UMNO to impose their will on others. They are fighting for the common good, justice for all...Good governance and comprehensive care help for the needy, regardless of religions or creeds.

Over the years, UMNO has been consistently threathening the non-Malays with bloodshed and PAS's warnings to UMNO were always, " langkah mayat kami dulu " (over our dead bodies). All these assurances went on unreported in the MSM's controlled by the government but the internet is changing all that and the masses of non-Malays are much more comfortable with PAS than with UMNO nowadays. So, UMNO days are numbered as you can see...
(There was not a single Chinese killed in Kelantan during the May 13 tragedy when PAS mobilised their members to protect the others.)


PAS has been maligned by those MSM's for umpteen years and the Chinese and the Indians newspapers are the worst offenders by spewing untruths about PAS to scare their own readers and communities.


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In 1990, PAS grabbed back the State of Kelantan from the BN and they noticed that Kota Bharu doesn't has a substanstial Indian Temple and they called in the local Indian chieftains and ask the reason why? The local Indian community had been denied permit many times to build a temple by the previous BN government and they wouldn't believe that the so-called fundamentalist PAS will grant them their most cherish wish. They thought that Tok Guru Nik Aziz, the Mentri Besar, was joking until the MB reassured them that his offer was genuine. The Indian community was granted a piece of prime land right there and then, smack in the middle Jalan Hamzah (their Orchard Road) of Kota Bharu Township. Below is a picture of the temple today. UMNO would sell that piece of land for many millions and declared that they are doing your community a big favour and would also tell you that you do your temple in an inconspicuous box like structure as a factory.


Temple and Church, side by side in Kota Bharu.

 

[huahero]

If these body scanners stop all muslims from stepping on a plane, they'll be considered an absolute godsend.

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