Veiled women will be forced to reveal their identities at UK airports under a government plan to tighten security, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
Home Office insiders last night confirmed that immigration officials will be ordered to impose their legal right to lift the veils of passengers after it emerged a suspected police killer may have escaped the UK dressed as a Muslim woman.
It subsequently emerged that immigration staff are legally entitled to ask any female passenger to lift her veil to verify her identity against passport photographs. But officers usually wave passengers through because they do not have the time to check everyone.
“Where they don’t do it, I suspect it is more often to do with a lack of suspicion than lax procedures or overwork. But we recognise that this sort of thing should be the rule, not the exception.”
As well as I’ve been able to determine, this is also the rule in the United States. Of course, with the TSA and Homeland Insecurity running the show, do you think there may be a little “inconsistency”?
Good.
Sehr gut.
If they insist on a medieval dress code, maybe they should travel using medieval transportation. Oxcarts and Shank’s mare come to mind.
I’m thinking about opening a Muslim facey bar.
Mrs. Al-Maroush says “Durka Durka Jihad”
*sigh*
I understand the reasoning, I really do, but something about it seems sour to me. Ah well – I do agree though that covering your face when you need to be identified is dumb – and as long as they sell it like that I don’t think anyone can have any legitimate objections.
… I just don’t think it’ll get sold like that.
Hundreds of millions of passengers are inconvenienced annually because of muslim attacks. Why shouldn’t they join the rest of us in providing proper identification?
Facey bar. That’s pretty funny!
AFAIK Moslems will have no objection to this measure, so long as the only people who can see the women are themselves women.
have ou seen how these women eat? kinda nasty brrr
while the world moved on, some muslim believers are stuck in the previous centuries (like some christians I know)… and I, as a freedom lover respect all of them… wait, no, I don´t care! damn you dvorak for your tricksy ways!!
Many of the terrorist in Saudi Arabia who have gone on murderous rampages in the last few years often use this “dress as a woman” technique to escape police dragnets in Saudi Arabia. The police there are so terrorfied of offending a woman’s family that they let anyone wearing a full burka walk through. Ridiculous.
Specifically, the Al-Khobar massacre of 2004, where the guys who did it slipped through a dragnet with this method and have yet to be caught.