Actually it is personnel at Canada's busiest airport who are going to get the training in how to treat Muslims. Will it include instruction on how to ignore signs of jihadist activity? "Sensitivity Training for Canada Airports," from IslamOnline, July 31 (thanks to Sounder):
CAIRO — Hundreds of officers at Pearson, Canada's busiest airport, will receive sensitivity training to guarantee a better treatment of Muslim and Arab passengers, to the welcome of lobbying groups, Toronto Star reported on Thursday, July 31."The CBSA constantly takes steps including outreach and training to ensure our services are not discriminatory or perceived to be discriminatory," said Patrizia Giolti, spokesperson for the Canada Border Services Agency.
The sensitivity courses, to start from September through March, will be give to 500 officers at Pearson airport, Canada's busiest airport.
The aim is to help officers "effectively perform their enforcement responsibilities in a respectful manner," said the CBSA.
Muslim passengers have long complained of being singled out for searches at Canadian airports.
They are often questioned about their activities and purchase abroad, have their luggage searched and passport information taken down.
"We feel that this is a type of profiling, which must cease," said Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress.
"After 9/11 we became all potential terrorists without doubt, and we still have some examples of people being picked up from the line because they wear long beards or the hijab," agrees Mohamed Boudjenane, executive director of the Canadian Arab Federation.
"It still happens on a regular basis."...
Horror of horrors! For, as everyone knows, Methodist grandmothers are just as likely to commit an act of terror as young Muslim males!
So this means *everyone's* underpants will be checked for explosives?
Muslim passengers have long complained of being singled out for searches at Canadian airports.
They are often questioned about their activities and purchase abroad, have their luggage searched and passport information taken down.
"We feel that this is a type of profiling, which must cease," said Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress.
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Okay. WTF? I was searched, and all that fun stuff - random selecton - in Canada. (I'm not a Muslim, nor an Arab), but I didn't complain - in fact I thanked the gentlemen during their job.
Oh wait... I forgot appearently Muslims don't give a crap about security of non-Muslims or even themselves. We should throw this PC crap to the dogs.
They can search me anytime - I like to know the flight I'm getting on isn't going to be blown up thank you very much.
Forget airports, sounds like they should be watching the buses more.
Kind of OT, but man beheads passenger on Canadian bus.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080801/ap_on_re_ca/canada_bus_stabbing
The identity of the perp is not being released, so that probably means ROP practitioner.
I have a simple solution to the problem of Muslims being searched at airports in non-Muslim countries:
Don't allow Muslims into non-Muslim countries.
To quote from the film Aliens: "It's the only way to be sure".
After all, it wouldn't bother me if I never set foot in a Muslim country.
Hey KM,
I saw this report too and that was my first thought also.
Here's an update:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/01/stabbing-victim.html
It would be one thing if it were a simple stabbing (and horrendous enough) but cutting off the head?!??!?
Why didn't the other passengers try to intervene?
Poor kid.
The horrific beheading murder on the Greyhound bus in Canada seems very suspicious to me. The RCMP have not yet released the murderer's name, although he has been in custody for over 24 hours now.
If, and this is only speculation on my part, but if he is a muslim, the next thing we'll be hearing is, "But of course he doesn't represent all muslims, and we won't tolerate any backlash against muslims...islam is a religion of peace.....yada yada yada..."
When are muslims immigrating to the West going to have to take "sensitivity training"?
To paraphrase an actor: I would give real money if Elmasry would just shut up. For a PhD in engineering, you would think that he would be able to see the cause and effect between Muslim acts of violence around the world, and the profiling (which works very well, thank you) in the world's airports. If he wants to stop the profiling, then stop the kitman, taqqiya, and the jihad. Otherwise, it is another blowhard pumping hot air, and we have enough of that.
I think they didn't intervene because they didn't know how a/o weren't equipped.
My thoughts: http://freemendo.typepad.com/
Oh this should make people much feel safer flying! Arabs and obvious Muslims will not be looked at more closely per the sensitivity training – but then Canadian officials naturally don’t care how the majority population feels when it comes to appeasing Muslims. Canada is probably more stupid than even Britain.
For those who are interested, the head-chopper on the Canadian bus appears to be of Chinese ethnicity. http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/08/01/6328821.html
He is apparently a big, burly fellow who was equipped with a very large knife.
The "training" won't be complete until they also pass out weapons to these fine folks. After all, this would demonstrate trust that the Koranists won't do something horrible with them-one can't get any more sensitive than that.
I don't entirely disagree with this.
Obviously if you see a white guy beating "his woman", it's beholden on the authorities to intervene.
But not with Asians and Arabs, that's cultural, and therefore racist.
'Sensitivity training'.
Lessons in how to flatter and grovel, more like.
I have a much better idea.
Here's some advice and counsel from the English-language press in China, circa 1867, as unearthed by a poster here at this very site, and shared, three years ago. I've posted it several times lately, but in this context, it bears repeating. And repeating. And repeating. Perhaps Canadians here might like to incorporate it into letters to Pearson Airport.
“If politeness and ceremony be observed toward Mohammedans, they imagine they are feared and become arrogant; but in showing severity and rudeness, they are impressed with fear and respect, and they are supple and manageable.”
--North China Herald,1867
- Posted by: unicorns62000 at January 16, 2005 4:30 AM".
Mr Hugh Fitzgerald informed us at the time, that in 1867 a jihad was in full swing among the Muslims in Western China, and he directed our attention to a book on the subject --"Holy War in China: The Muslim rebellion and state in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877" by Hodong King (Stanford University Press) - that might possibly contain valuable lessons. After all, it is obvious that that jihad - and the other one that broke out in 1930 - did NOT succeed. Pre-communist China, it appears, knew how to squash jihadists. Perhaps we can all learn something.