Absolute Madness

Islam is supposed to be all about peace. In all aspects of islamic life

P.C gone mad for sure

And what if his religion is new and all men must keep their faces covered with plaid colorings. Perhaps he should investigate how to start his own religion
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P.C gone mad for sure

Seems the person mistakenly believed that he had a right to free speech, to the best of my knowledge no such right exists in the UK. Rather bizarrely, even though the European Convention on Human Rights does have such a right, the UK's implementation of the Convention has several exceptions to it, including incitement to religious hatred. I would hope that, had this individual been arrested and charged under that Act, a judge would have thrown it out of court as a frivolous waste of his/her time and charged the prosecution with contempt.

To my mind, the issue is not about being "PC", it's about the powers of airport security folks.

I beg your pardon? The man was making a clear comment on the hyprocisy of the PC Brigade - we have to endure all those security measures while they walk through?

Just where on the report is it stated he was inciting hatred? With many like you in the USA, it looks like 9/11 could happen again!

Seems the person mistakenly believed that he had a right to free speech, to the best of my knowledge no such right exists in the UK. Rather bizarrely, even though the European Convention on Human Rights does have such a right, the UK's implementation of the Convention has several exceptions to it, including incitement to religious hatred. I would hope that, had this individual been arrested and charged under that Act, a judge would have thrown it out of court as a frivolous waste of his/her time and charged the prosecution with contempt.

Where do I say that this was a case of inciting hatred? By calling a hypothetical charge under the associated act "frivolous"?

So why mention it in the 1st place when you clearly state that you hope a judge would throw it out if it came to court, thereby agreeing with the thread title?

Condescending maybe?

and who decided to bring in a muslim scanner to judge. He said it to a guy matter of factly, then suddenly the Islamic law scholar on duty decided she needed an apology even though she didn't hear what he said first hand and wasn't the person he was talking about.

Here's a clue if you are an overly sensitive arse. You expect apologies or give them when you were then one offended or offending. Mind your own damn business and move on.

hell its bad enough i have to take my sandals off at the airport screening as if an Xray is going to give you more detail into what that sandal is made.

Let alone if I had a blasting cap on me that could ignite a bomb, a cap that would easily be detected in a scan or say I left it in my shoe which is the quickest easiest way to blow ones own foot off just by walking on the cap.

I hate the false sense of security we've blanketed ourselves with. I'd rather drive my own car and complain about traffic than deal with the witch hunt for terrorist when the reality is the terrorist we are looking for look middle eastern. Why put on this charade scanning granny as if she were a knife wielding threat.

PUUUlleeasee. If anything I should be offended having to deal with 0.0000001% of a religions worshipers that find it necessary to fly planes into buildings. If they were looking for White Catholics from Texas I would certainly understand if I was put under a bit more scrutiny than the nice asian Buddhist guy from LA. I get tired of a system that worried about offending the very people that look like the Terrorist we are trying to prevent from getting on planes. IF anything they should be grateful that they are being watched so closely. They certainly won't be easily mugged will they.
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However, all passengers must show their faces to UK Borders officials when they pass through passport control. Muslim women who wear hijabs can request that their identity is checked by a female immigration officer and they can also ask that they be taken to a private room before they remove their head wear.

We were then joined by a second female security guard who stated that she was Muslim and was deeply distressed by my comment.

Islam is supposed to be all about peace. In all aspects of islamic life

Well, it is supposed to be like this as you say. But when Clerics realised
that through religion they had great power and control over people they went on to
abuse this power. Went on to use this for their own self interests. I think
Christianity did this too at one time eons ago....many a perceived witch suffered
at the discretion of the local clergy....."duck anyone", whoops! wrong thread??

Roe v Wade was only a few decades ago and Prohibition was only 80 or so years ago. It's a wonder we are here at all. We never learn from history
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In the last 100 years alone all religions were only cause of most murders, abuses, rapes, robbings next to WWII stats.

So let's say why EU government be more common sensed and begin to largely limit religion all form of it. That way especially in current legal environment many forms of crimes might drop hence causing less economic resources wasting.

IF more sophisticated probablistic computing could be done on this then I wander in the last 500 years only religion likely was the pure source of most crime counts.
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Nah, it is all those Catholics -- oh wait, they are Christian too...