Muslims search themselves at airports....wait, what?

I saw this story and was aghast.  If this is how our administration sees fit to protect us, we are doomed.  Outrageous, and possibly criminal.

DHS considers allowing Muslim women to pat themselves down at airports

Janet Napolitano and DHS, in considering a technique for Muslim women in which they “pat themselves down in the head and neck area” are proving, once again that political correctness is running amok regarding Islamic sensibilities.  Airline passengers, already reeling from the numerous and constant barrage of security measures, now must contend with seeing a class of people, women in particular, being given special treatment because of their religion. 

   One wonders whether this method will do anything to increase our feelings of security and safety, and begs the question on why the reverse profiling.  First, the whole point of a search is to discover anything concealed on the person which is dangerous or illegal.  A “self pat-down” defeats the purpose of a search, as well as being a grievous lapse of security protocols.  The stakes are high: if something goes wrong in airport security, people will die.  Adding another variable into the system only adds to the margin of error. 

   Second, it is as if the TSA and DHS are deliberately bending over backwards to show Muslims are NOT a threat, that there is nothing to see behind the niqab or burqa except tolerance and diversity, and it is all being done in the name of “don’t insult Muslims or Islam”.  Will orthodox Jews be allowed to self-pat their hats or curly locks, will Mennonite women be allowed to self-pat their lace caps, will Sikhs be allowed to self-pat their head wrappings, and will old men be allowed to self-pat their golf caps?  To single out a religion for special treatment, and exclude all other religions from this treatment smacks of cognitive dissonance.  If Islamic doctrine is that scary to where we allow a breach of security, questions need to be asked as to why this is so.

   We hear time and again how Muslims in America just want to be equal and be treated like everyone else.  If this is so, then Muslim women must participate in their social responsibilities to American society and law, even when it is awkward or inconvenient.  Instead of acting like some kind of ideological demigoddess whose head and neck cannot be touched by dirty human hands in the screening line, join the mainstream and suffer the indignities of security screenings we all must endure. Your head and neck no more special than that of the non-Muslim lady in line behind you who is just as unhappy as you are.

   It would be fair to require everyone to endure the new security measures, no matter what the individual belief.  The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, and for the safety of all a few must give way.  This Muslim waiver is being proposed, and considered by DHS and the TSA by CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  A travel advisory has been issued by CAIR which says, in part that if a Muslim woman feels she has been exposed to any “disturbing incidents” that a complaint should be filed with CAIR.  It makes a special recommendation for Muslim women who wear the face veil, saying women are to inform the officer they are only to pat down the head and neck and that "They should not subject you to a full-body or partial body pat-down." They also recommend that women should be permitted to pat themselves down and "have the officers perform a chemical swipe of your hands."

   If the TSA and Homeland Security institutes this CAIR-supported plan, it will be another example of how we in America would rather bow to Muslim demands than examine critically the texts and tenets which drive the acts, causing our game of “catch-up” in security measures.  Allowing Muslim women to “self-pat”, at the urging of CAIR makes us less safe, promotes the Islamic agenda and untimately undermines the principals of fairness, equality and responsibility to ones homeland.

   There should not even be a debate about this: it is wrong, against our principals and an affront to every other religion.  We, the American people deserve better than Napolitano and DHS to look out for our safety.