Only greasy Islamophobes would object to a hijabbed, observant Muslim TSA worker, right? After all, to object would be to assume that all Muslims are jihad terrorists or jihad terrorist sympathizers, and that is the very definition of “Islamophobia,” now, isn’t it? We should be applauding the prospect of a devout Muslim who has dedicated her time to protecting Americans by working at the TSA, right?
All right. I am sure the TSA employee pictured here is as loyal and patriotic as the day is long. This is the question I have: just imagine the possibility — admittedly wild and remote, virtually inconceivable — that jihadis would want to infiltrate the TSA, so as to place operatives in strategic positions who could then ensure that airport security became lax at the precisely opportune moment. One’s immediate thought would be that they would be dressed in a secular Western style, as the Al-Qaeda playbook directs, and as Muhammad Atta and his fellow jihad hijackers were dressed on September 11, 2001.
However, another goal could be in view as well: the placement of people dressed in “Muslim garb,” as Juan Williams memorably put it, in the TSA forces non-Muslim air passengers to place their safety in the hands of people who clearly hold the same belief-system as did those who made all these security procedures necessary in the first place. Thus we are forced tacitly to acknowledge either that that belief-system had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks — even though the attackers themselves invoked it and only it as their motivation — and that therefore we must do nothing to oppose its spread in the West, or that even if that belief-system did motivate the 9/11 jihad attacks, it is continuing to advance in the West and we can do nothing about it.
The two goals may coalesce: in other words, Islamic jihadists who wished to infiltrate the TSA may decide that a hijabbed TSA worker would be preferable to one in secular dress, as a gesture of Islamic supremacist assertiveness as well as the placement of an agent who could weaken security at the right moment. A hijabbed TSA worker is the personification of a dare: Islamic supremacists are daring the TSA to question her about her belief-system, thereby acknowledging that that belief-system has something to do with terror and violence. The TSA almost certainly did not dare to do so: it is virtually inconceivable that the woman pictured, as well as other hijabbed TSA workers and airport personnel, were ever questioned in any attempt to determine how closely their view coincided with those of Osama bin Laden. To have done so would have been “Islamophobic,” and would have invited protests from the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
And so the TSA hires observant Muslims without making any effort at all to determine whether or not they are jihadist infiltrators.
Yet on what basis can that possibility be ruled out?
Feel safe yet?
(Photo thanks to Pamela Geller).
In my esteemed opinion it would be inconceivable to assume otherwise. Of course they have intentions to infiltrate. They have declared war on many occasions. Would they not want to penetrate the enemies defenses? It still doesn't add up…the appointment of "devout Muslims" to high-ranking positions of Homeland Security?
just out of curiousity, how did your opinion become "esteemed". i'd like to have an esteemed opinion too but i don't know how. any helpful hints?
Perhaps we should hire ONLY hijabbed "devouted" Muslims to these high security positions.
In that way there would be a tacit understanding between the citizenry and the government that other more important "top priorities" preclude protection and safety of it's citizens such as enhanced Muslim outreach. Didn't President Obama Jr. point out that his job as President was to make Muslims feel good about themselves?
Would not contracting the entire TSA to Saudia Arabia accomplish that? They could profile without being called Islamophobes.
Remember. Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims.
No, not quite all, but definitely a predominant number. Only this past week an anarchist group claimed credit for two mail bombs sent to the embassies of Chile and Sweden. And we shouldn't forget the Tamil Tigers. If you have Netflix, check out "The Baader Meinhof Complex" to recall a time when Europe was under assault from a different terror camp.
You are correct, but forgot IRA:-) Regardless, our clear and present danger stems from Islam.
Obama probably has a quota for hiring Muslims in the TSA. This politically correct bunk needs to stop. To Muslims we are infidels and if they ever manage to take over this country, we have 2 choices, convert or die. These Muslims would have no problem removing our heads. Can you see American women running around in burqas.
As a muslima trapped in a Jewish man's body, I insist that the muslima in the picture above pat me down as I gaze into her eyes, after I shake her hand. I'll be singing the muslim call to prayer during the process……it goes something like this (sung to the oscar meyer bologna song).
Our moon-god has a first name,
it's a-l-l-a-h.
Our moon-god has no second name,
it's a-l-l-a-h.
Oh we kill kafir most every day,
and if you ask to whom we praaaaaayyyyy……..
To kill some joos is a-o-k,
says a-l-l-a-h, oy vey.
After 9/11 the FBI found to its consternation that some of its Muslim employees refused to take testimony against a Muslim, refused to record what was said, etc.
And now some time later nothing has been learned, it seems.
Perhaps she's harmless.
Someone she knows – a relative, friend, neighbor – is not, she knows very well who he is, and remains silent.
They (the Islamists) think the only time Americans have guts is when they are splattered all over the tarmac. I am beginning to wonder if they are correct.
I have a question. Since virtually all Islamic countries elites (the King of Jordan, the Syrian President, et al) have none of there women wear the "traditional" Muslim garb, one must conclude it is a cultural rather than a religious mandate and therefore not necessary for ANY government agency to make accommodations for it. Would they allow wooden shoes for folks from Holland? Or Kilts for Scotsmen? There should not be any additional rights bestowed upon these folks merely because they say it is in observance of their religion. IT IS NOT a requirement. Period.
One place where one will not see such affirmative hiring is Ben Gurion Airport. Though the country is some 15-20% Arab, you won't likely see many in security positions as virtually all such personnel are ex-IDF, and few Arabs beyond the Bedouin serve. (Druze do serve and they *are* hired.) If any should get a preferential shot for TSA positions, it should be military veterans. But I suspect many veterans wouldn't have much patience for such a dysfunctional organization.
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Since virtually all Islamic countries elites (the King of Jordan, the Syrian President, et al) have none of there women wear the "traditional" Muslim garb, one must conclude it is a cultural rather than a religious mandate and therefore not necessary for ANY government agency to make accommodations for it. Would they allow wooden shoes for folks from Holland? Or Kilts for Scotsmen? There should not be any additional rights bestowed upon these folks merely because they say it is in observance of their religion. IT IS NOT a requirement. Period.
In my not so humble opinion, eventually we infidels here in the USA will get to the point where we have had quite enough from the muslim scum, and then it will be open season on muslims with no bag limit.
Political correctness is stupidty
Muslims are exempt from TSA screenings.
Uh, let me think. If you try to infiltrate the TSA, would a Muslim disguise be a good way to do it? This is just more Robert Spencer schlock, the man who poses as a scholar. Expect the next biggie to come from someone who looks more like your good buddy Timothy McVeigh.
scum, refute his claim, not the man. You have lost credibility. Oh, yes, McVeigh was an atheist, and an anomaly.
now i see why they call you scum!
Its the same here in UK airports muslims working in high security positions. Our post offices are infiltrated by muslims too.
I once took a 100 question test that asked religionist questions and on a test that my cousin took for a 911 police dispatcher she was asked if she believed in the second coming.
ALL isslimes ARE terrorists. They are either terrorists or they are not muzzelems. There is NO such thing as a nice muzzelem. Muzzelems are COMMANDED by their book to make life unbearable for any and EVERYONE who is not an isslime. WHY is this difficult for some to understand. They can SEEM nice because that is their obligation until they can come to the position of absolute dominance. There is NEVER in their mind to be friends with you. This is not rocket science folks. Isslime INTENDS to dominate and destroy you.
Muslims are BORN to KILL.
Americans are BORN to be FREE
END OF STORY
It might be helpful if the courts would stop telling employers, both civilian and government, that they have no right to insist on uniform/dress code policies. We probably would still get Muslims as TSA screeners but at least they would not be allowed to get away with this in-your-face attitude that our customs and traditions mean nothing to them.
Islam in obedience to the Qur’an (Islamic terror manual) is the driving force for most of the terrorism we are seeing today. If you don't believe this, check who the majority of people are that are doing the terrorist acts throughout the world.
Contrary to other religions that offer heaven by good works and Christianity that offers it for free to those who believe and follow Jesus Christ, an obedient Muslim cannot be sure of his hereafter without it. Muslims are offered a palace; in it are 72 mansions with 72 homes with 72 sheets on 72 beds with 72 virgins that never lose their virginity. Mohammed said, “The person who participates in (Holy Battles) in Allah's cause and nothing compels him to do so except belief in Allah and His Apostle, will be recompensed by Allah either with a reward, or booty (if he survives) or will be admitted to paradise (if he is killed).” (Al Bukhari vol. 1:35.)
Remember that not all Muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are Muslims..
As Ann Coulter once said, "when 98%+ of all the terrorists acts since 1979 are committed by Muslim men, it ceases to be profiling but is actually the description of the suspects."
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