From the Muslims:
"I've had a lot of Muslims, and particularly Muslim women, say they're going to put off travel plans as much as is humanly possible because they just can't take the humiliation of it all," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). "They're tired of being singled out for their attire. We have reports of Muslim women in tears."
From the Sikhs:
Requiring Sikhs to undergo secondary screening even after submitting to the scanners also raises questions about the new machines, he said.
"The TSA and [Department of Homeland Security] sort of intimated to us that if these machines were to be used as a primary form of screening and if they were so powerful that they could detect beads of perspiration, that it would obviate the need for a human screener and setting Sikhs aside for secondary screening," Singh said. "But they're telling us they can't see through a turban, which is thin cotton? It raises questions about the efficacy of the machines."
From the Jews:
"In Jewish law, the issue of modesty is a very fundamental element of Jewish life, and going through a machine that exposes a person's body parts offends a person's religious sensibilities," said Rabbi Abba Cohen, vice president for federal affairs and Washington director of Agudath Israel of America, a national Orthodox Jewish organization that has worked with the TSA. "It's clearly a picture that exposes private body parts, and I know in our community there would be a great discomfort in going through these machines."
From the Christians:
"Conservative Southern Baptists, they're talking about the modesty issues. . . . The Bible's pretty clear about nakedness not being something which is supposed to be public. It's a disgrace," Land said.
He has encouraged Southern Baptists to find alternatives to air travel and to call airlines to let them know why. Comparing it to the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in the 1950s, he said, "We've got to go to the airlines and make it hurt."
Any groups left out there? I don't think we've heard from the Wiccans yet?
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