Want To Get Through Canadian Airport Security Unscathed?

Just dress up as a muslim female.

In Canada (Montreal specifically), they apparently are afraid to ask these women to pull back their veils on the fear of being guilty of political correctness, even for security reasons. While the rest of us are undergoing terrifically humiliating interrogations such as naked body scanners or feel-ups, these women can apparently skate from the parking lot through the concourse and straight to their departure gate. (Read here) What’s even more astonishing is that, according to Ihsaan Gardee, executive director of Cair-Can (Council on American-Islamic Relations, Canada),

“Women who wear the niqab are not constrained by the religious belief from removing their veil for legitimate reasons, and security is one of them.”

This apparently means that there is no need to be concerned about a political correctness infraction (not that I think there is a need to be concerned regardless) due to the fact that it doesn’t violate the Muslim religion. Yet, here we are again faced with a situation where we, the initial victims, are being victimized further for reasons that we never gave. Whether or not your view is that the Muslims were responsible for 9/11 or not (as well as other international attacks) is irrelevant. If there are people who are using airports for transportation in North America, they should all adhere to the same rules. Anything less simply comes across as overcompensation in the sense that someone is so afraid to offend, that they give unfair treatment, but with the pendulum having swung far to the other side.

I could almost guarantee that if I tried to bypass airport security while wearing a ski mask or a tied bandanna around the lower half of my face, even if I were proclaiming that it was for religious purposes….well….you can surely guess what would happen next.

I can’t help to wonder what will take place if/when the airline companies start to file bankruptcy one after the other as a result of booking fewer and fewer travelers. Will Homeland Security suddenly and miraculously find a need to not be so stringent? Or will the government simply just make a way to unconstitutionally bail out the airlines at these same travelers’ expense?

Whatever might happen, the whole thing is entirely outrageous!