This is a strange program, to be sure. However, when Hamas-linked CAIR’s Dawud Walid claims that “we’re not going to be looking at or targeting ordinary Americans, we’re going to be looking at people like Dawud Walid, [or] like someone else who has an Arabic or Muslim background,” he is almost certainly wrong. The TSA is itself an elaborate exercise in pretending that everyone is equally a terror threat, not just those of “Muslim background.” Instead of employing intelligent questioning after the manner of Israeli air security, everyone is herded and humiliated in the same way.
Now comes this curious program, which apparently places random passengers under surveillance for no reason at all. A waste of TSA resources? Absolutely — like so much else. But has Hamas-linked CAIR ever expressed support for any counterterror measure at all?
An update on this story. “TSA’s passenger tracking program leaves Metro Detroit Muslim community on edge,” by Ameera David, WXYZ, July 30, 2018 (thanks to Larry):
DETROIT (WXYZ) – A small team of air marshals, as part of the ‘Quiet Skies’ program, are looking for behaviors like abnormal awareness of surroundings, excessive fidgeting or perspiration, and rapid eye blinking, according to a bombshell report by the Boston Globe. And it’s leaving many travelers feeling unsettled.
“Is there a specific demographic you’re targeting, or is this random? That would be weird if someone was watching my habits on a plane,” said Antea Birchett, who was at Detroit Metro airport today, after flying back home from a trip.
But it’s the Muslim community in Metro Detroit that’s particularly worried.
“The Department of Homeland security has a history of racial profiling,” said Dawud Walid, Executive Director at the Michigan branch of CAIR, a Muslim civil rights organization….
“We’re not going to be looking at or targeting ordinary Americans, we’re going to be looking at people like Dawud Walid, [or] like someone else who has an Arabic or Muslim background. That’s what that sounds like to me,” said Walid….
Today, CAIR asked for the TSA to drop the program because it may single out law-abiding travelers for official harassment.
elee says
You are aware that Muslims make a high priority of recruiting white jihadis specifically for this reason, right?
mortimer says
Muslims should travel on Muslim-only aircraft to keep others safe from harm.
Even Muslims would not want to travel on Muslim-only aircraft. The Shi’ites and Sunnites would be mutually terrified of one-another.
Mike says
Wit Jews pilots only !
J D S says
The Muslim only aircraft sounds good to me..too good to be true though….Ill stick with this old saying …..
“Most Muslims aren’t terrorist but most terrorists are muslims”
But….If the Muslim believes and follows the teachings in the Koran and hadath…well that leaves room for doubt about most Muslims aren’t terrorists part…Hmmmmm!
J D S says
One added thing….How much longer is the government going to keep CAIR off the terrorists list?
Mike says
Do anyone knows about Airplane ijacking Injector ? It is a “passenger disabling apparatus mounted in and under an airplane seat and remotely activated by a pilot or a crew member for disabling an airplane ijacker.”
A little sut of te gaz will make you confused. A little more will make you air sick .A little more will ave you deeply sleeping . A little more will be deadly . Te patent is from 1975-10-15 and cmmercial airplanes ave it .
Now ,ow often is it used ? Watc JASON GODMAN wit Abel DANger and Field McConnell , last week for all te details or go wiki.
paul budrunas says
when muslims are bitching about something that the US is doing to protect it’s citizens, that tells me we’re doing something right. Screw you lunatic muzzies that cut out your womens’ clitorises!
Guest says
No, it is much worse than they “cut out their womens’ clitorises!”. They do infibulation upon children who cannot effectively decline or escape the procedure.
An ‘Woman’ who has Agency, could in theory, resist, refuse or runaway from the Cutting, but the culture avoids all that by getting them while they are too young to fully understand the medical, and psychosexual ramifications of the procedure, and that for me, makes the practice particularly unwholesome and pernicious.
Perhaps this inhumane maltreatment, leaves the Muslim girl harboring a deep seated hatred for all mankind and makes her more likely to want to join the Jihad and earn her fast track ticket to Jannah by blowing up a plane or doing dome other blood campaign in service to the way of Allah.
Scientific study needed to prove or disprove that speculation, but out of an abundance of caution perhaps we should have the TSA check all women for signs of FGM, before they are allowed to board the plane;) I don’t know how that would go over, but sign me up for that TSA detail.
6woods says
I was on your side until your last sentence.
mortimer says
Guest, only several lie-detector tests would reveal if Muslims planned to conduct jihad-suicide.
a traveller says
lol, when I applied for security clearance a year ago, I was so impressed during the interview that the FBI agent knew to ask me why i’d visited turkey, Israel and the UK way back, the stamps were not in the current passport, and the questionnaire did not go that far back, i thought to myself “cool, they are doing their job well” i guess others would think differently.
Guest says
Not ALL Muhammadans have both the desire and means to blow up an airliner, but it is increasingly so that virtually all who desire to do so are followers of the Deen of Muhammad.
Spencer is keeping a running Tally of Jihadi campaigns and the proofs are here for all to see that it has been, and is foolhardy to treat those air travelers who follow the path of Muhammad just the same as everyone else who does not follow that violent ideology.
If I were Dawud Walid, and was taking a flight with my wife and children, I would be very relieved to hear that the authorities were focusing their efforts on Muslims in particular, and not wasting their efforts elsewhere.
While I was grimacing and coughing on command, I would nevertheless thank the TSA girl for bending me over the table with her gloved hand examining my tonsils from the wrong end, because I would know he is keeping everyone safe. Though I might on second thought request that the Cavity Search be performed by a man, a bearded man if possible and the bigger and burlier the better.
jewcat says
What is wrong with Guest?
gravenimage says
Hamas-linked CAIR enraged over TSA passenger tracking program
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In other words, if this program has even the slightest chance of stopping Jihadists, then CAIR opposes it.
James Lincoln says
Agreed !!!
b.a. freeman says
“The Department of Homeland security has a history of racial profiling.”
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i certainly hope so! sadly, we all know that that isn’t true.
Mike says
Good! I hope they have an aneurism.
somehistory says
moslims don’t want ***any****security at airports. They wish to be free to travel in and out whenever.
And yet, so many of them get jobs at airports where they frisk regular Americans….90 year old women in wheelchairs, little kids, etc.
And when it is leaked that this program looks at regular Americans with deeper scrutiny if they are using a computer, fidget, or have a “cold stare,” cair gets all up in the air….and complain that the TSA is “profiling” them. TSA should be profiling them and not hiring them. Then they could squawk.
the walud guy *wants* to be “profiled.” Then he would demand an apology. And sue.
Peace says
How about this for a good idea CAIR, we could wait until muslims blow up our planes and kill us before we decide they are a menace to ordinary people…. would that suit you …. ?
Anyone without guilt would be fine being looked at by any security service, it would make “normal people” feel secure …
.Lynn D says
When I traveled to the States in 2016, I got searched at every Airport.. Our plane went from NZ to Australia and then onto LAX, finally ending up at San Francisco… After having to queue up, surrender all electronic devices, purses and shoes, then go through the Xray like machine. I said in a loud voice “Thank you, bloody Islam!’ I said this at Sydney Airport.. I was pulled over for a frisking…I then got a frisking at LAX and the at SFO… I was then a 63 year old caucasian NZer with blonde hair.. Definitely a terrorist.
gravenimage says
Sorry this happened to your, Lynn–but I am not surprised.
Japetto Danatelli says
I think it’s especially galling to hear muslims whine about all this when it’s their f*cking religion and people that caused it all. I got a solution, if you muslims don’t want to be profiled then don’t do 98% of all the terrorism. I remember a time when our nation still had a modicum of privacy and we weren’t treated like criminals for existing in public. Muslim terror has been the perfect excuse for our own government to turn us all into criminal suspects. Now I can’t “blink” too much or look “fidgety” or I risk getting whisked away to an interrogation room and strip searched. God forbid I should be irritable or tired or running late, I’ll be on the “watch list” for sure. And you know damn well they aren’t going to exclude “ordinary Americans” from this hyper-vigilant inspection, and how does one define “ordinary American” in the first place? don’t make me laugh, that’s double talk. The moment you open the door to this kind of scrutiny you just f*cking know you’ve lost your dignity and rights as a free-living human. This new policy becomes the invisible tape over our mouths and the chains that bind us. Did you just have a run-of-the-mill spat with a crabby airline employee or over eager security guard? You just blinked too much.
This is what islam has done to us, it’s turned us into a kind of self-imposed tyranny where nobody trusts anybody else. So I guess the smart thing to do is invite more muslims in and call islam a “religion of peace,” that’s been the approach so far. Thank goodness for President Trump, at least he’s willing to acknowledge the danger and try to do something about it. But of course he’s a “racist bigot” for doing so and it’s really been an up hill battle. It makes me sad that for the rest of my life we’ll never know freedom like it was before muslims crushed it. And then to have our own media and politicians turn against us and fight for islam, I can’t think of a bigger invitation for disaster. CAIR needs to shut the f*ck up. They’re like a needle poking a boil with all their suing, accusing, and whining. They’re nothing but a bunch of whitewashed sepulchers for islam, to me.
penelope says
mb/cair should be declared terrorist organizations in every country as UAE was smart enough to do. Why is mb/cair allowed to exist anyway? 9/11 should have made it clear to everyone yet islam whines and everyone runs to wipe their asses; that has to stop. they are no better than anyone else and they keep the crap stirred up wherever they are and unfortunately there is a huge proliferation of mosques and hate-spewing imams creating more hate and terrorism then crying wolf; so stupid. why do we put up with it? even though saudi arabia claims to be a friendly country, they are not; the 19 murderers came from that country yet they have a fortress of an embassy; have covered VA and many major cities with huge mosques; too many of them are in sensitive government jobs. when will the crap stop? where were all these muslims before 9/11????
pemba says
Will USA ever shut down CAIR?