Special exemptions for Muslims unacceptable

The recent images in the news of the Muslim TSA woman frisking the thighs of a Christian nun wearing a habit has ignited a tsunami of outrage, and has inflamed the already-heated issue of increased airport security in America involving scanners and pat-down body searches. Almost everyone agrees the pat downs are excessive, but if they’re going to be done, then everyone gets the same treatment. After all, they’re looking for explosives and weapons; this is not a game. But Muslims claim the procedures violate their religious beliefs and feel they have a right to a special exemption from it.

CAIR instructs Muslims to remind the TSA officers that they are only supposed to pat down their head and neck. “They should not subject you to a full-body or partial-body pat-down,” according to their press release.

The “Dhimmitude” provision of the Obama Health Care bill allows Muslims to opt out of paying for it.

If Muslims want to come to America, they need to understand the rules and laws are for everyone, and that their religious ideology does not carry the same weight here as it does in some foreign Islamic theocracy. This is America; right or wrong. If you don’t like the scans or the pat-downs, ride the bus, but using a religion to skirt our rules and our laws is not only unacceptable, but certain to cause a real problem if continued claims of religious privilege are not soon neutralized.

MIKE GILMORE

Sagle