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| Hands off, TSA! I'll inspect my own scarf! |
If you wear the Islamic head scarf and you are selected for secondary screening, ask the TSA officer if the reason you are being selected for secondary is because of your head scarf. If the officer confirms you were referred to secondary because of your head scarf, before you are patted down, you should remind the TSA officer, who should be of the same gender, that they are only supposed to pat down the area in question, in this scenario, your head and neck. They should not subject you to a full-body or partial-body pat-down. You can always request to pat down your own scarf, including head and neck area, and have the officer perform a residue swab of your hands.Well anyone may request anything at the checkpoints, I suppose. What about men wearing a keffiyah?Do they get to pat themselves down, too? (Does that mean they get a "grope discount?" Heh!) No supporter of the new procedures am I, but I'm skeptical that the TSA would go along. After all, if Muslims can grope themselves at airports, so can anyone else!
Which means we might get a new ending for the old Mae West quip:
"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"
Bang!
Oh, it was a gun.
Another thought occurs: if you went to an airport and started groping yourself the same way that the TSA claims power to do, you would be arrested. But when the TSA does it to you . . . .
As for a Muslim woman trying to get on an airplane in Australia,
She can not walk in Australian airports if she is wearing scarf, the hijab that covers a woman’s hair and neck. Keeping in mind the security measures at airports, Australian Federal government wants to ban wearing Muslim scarf, particularly the niqab and the burka that conceal the person from head to toe.Update: "Grope and change," heh!
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