Posted on 12/23/2006 4:41:15 PM PST by LibWhacker
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.
But the plan has been attacked by unions, which claim it would impose intolerable demands on their members, particularly female officers who would be the only ones allowed to look under veils.
Ministers have been forced on to the back foot in the past week after it was revealed that asylum seeker Mustaf Jama, wanted for the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky, flew from Heathrow to Somalia using his sister's passport. He is believed to have been wearing a niqab, which has just a slit for eyes.
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.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair yesterday joined the growing calls for change, saying airline passengers must remove any head-dress that covers their face. Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has consistently warned of the grave terror threat facing the country, said: "We must find methods of allowing people to take off the veil in a way that's dignified."
But a senior Home Office source insisted that existing law gave immigration officers wide-ranging rights. However, the department told Scotland on Sunday last week that it does not hold any centralised records of those checked or refused entry for failing to meet entry requirements.
Home Secretary John Reid is planning to enforce these legal rights before considering any more significant changes.
"Immigration officers can check beneath veils and they do this at every port of entry, every day of the week," the source added. "It is done sensitively and in private.
"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."
The Immigration Act 1971 requires everyone entering the UK to satisfy an immigration officer as to their nationality and identity. Where there are sensitive or cultural reasons why it is not possible for a person to remove a veil or other garment at the immigration control, they will be taken to a private area where their identity can be verified.
Just the opposite is true, imo. Strip search them right out on the tarmac. For all the world to see. Make 'em bend over and grab their ankles.
That, in turn, would make them want to rejoin the human race, and perhaps give up on their backward religion. Or it'd make them stop visiting the US and the UK altogether, which would be every bit as desirable.
It's about time they did something sensible instead of bowing to the PC-nannies!
Perhaps you can get through security FASTER if you wear a burka???
Mace,
in a dignified manner.
Maybe they need to post HUGE pictures of the aftermath of 7/7 on the walls of the airports....just a reminder...
Big whoop, I have to take off my shoes at the airport!
Yep, tis ripe and time to insult a few minorities whose culture stinks.
A site better than a crotch grab to check for gender
Tough Toenails, Muslims!!! You didn't curse your fellow Muslims when they killed innocents....deal with it!
"Did you see this?" ping
full cavity search on the ones so stupid as to try and get on with veil
BTTT
Well said. It is time that muslims realize that the rest of the civilized world is at least 1500 years ahead of them in all spheres of human existence - political, economic, philosiphical, and scientific.
ROFL
Personally I have never been through an immigration check when departing a UK airport.
SevenofNine, look at #11.
Yeah, just like the dignified way that our elderly citizens now have to balance on one foot while trying to remove their shoes with one hand in order to board an aircraft. All thanks to Islamist scum who are infesting the civilized world like a plague of locusts. After they start to behave in a civilized manner, we can talk about their dignity. Until then, piss on all of them.
If Christians can have their Christmas trees, Nativity scenes, crucifixes and even spoken Christmas greetings taken away from them, I'm sure the Muzzies can lift their veils. They need to just learn to deal with it like we are being "forced" to do.
Erm.
Except for spelling. But who needs that one, anyway?
They are BARBARIANS!!
Our desire to LIVE outweighs the muslims tender sensibilites, end of story, you don't like our rules, stay in the Middle East. Thank you and goodnight.
What ever happened to directness in this country? Everyone has to do a tap dance around everything and contemplate this and that, security issue, lift the veil-no, sorry, you have to leave, goodbye.
What's that? A decision that makes sense? PING.....
Unreal the Islamic arse kissing that goes on over there. Hello, they just blew up a bus and here last week they are all but gauranteed to do it again, yet the wrist slap approach continues.
Read this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1756875/posts
Like I said many times, and many freepers hve cursed me out over this; You let the muzzies know if ONE, even ONE suicide bomber detonates, then Mecca will be nuked. You put the responsibilty on their laps. Sure the Muzzies may kill a few people in the UK or the US, but their actions will directly result in an Islamic holocaust. Nobody has the balls though. Take this action, the war would be over tomorrow.
"I sense another protest in the streets!"
'I'm against protests, but I don't know how to show it.'
..............Mitch Hedburg
Well, my friend... You won't hear me cursing you out. I agree with you 100%. An extremely tough approach will work, wrist slaps won't.
Sadly, as we all learned on 9/11 - flying with muslims is dangerous.
Place a line on the floor. When they reach that line they take off their veil. Place another line on the other side of the inspection station when they reach that line they can put it back on. Plenty of dignity and they dont slow down the line. If they dont like it they stay home.
Even I can't top that one...
That toon about the Islamists is simply superb. LOL.
P.S.: I wish it were true (sighing!)
Now you have done it … you have insulted barbarians everywhere. Shame on you. ;)
from the article:
"Ministers have been forced on to the back foot in the past week after it was revealed that asylum seeker Mustaf Jama, wanted for the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky, flew from Heathrow to Somalia using his sister's passport. He is believed to have been wearing a niqab, which has just a slit for eyes."
You wrote:
"This a red herring. Take a look at pictures of the women of Iran and see how many have a veil on."
I fail to see what one has to do with the other...
About time for another jihadanazi loss in court.
Maybe we should start refering to any burka'd woman as a 'pig in a poke'...
Well part of their protests is that the lifting of the veil is an indignity forced upon them when in truth they are trumping it up as something to exploit on a few levels.
Eternal victimhood?
Sorry, I misunderstood.
...in a dignified manner.
... or go Greyhound!
I've seem a few muslim women in our local mall after they take off their "garb" in the ladies room. Most seem very sweet, and some are gorgeous, but that's beside the point.
We need to know WHO is under those veils in places where terrorists would most likely harm us.
"It is time that muslims realize that the rest of the civilized world is at least 1500 years ahead of them.."
I doubt that the "civilized" world is so many years ahead of the Muslim mindset, considering that it invites Islam to proliferate among them and continue to describe it as a ROP.
"Perhaps you can get through security FASTER if you wear a burka???"
I saw that happen at BWI (Baltimore-Washington Airport) .. my gray haired, native born, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant hub and I were boarding a flight ... stopped for searches, etc .. while a woman (I suppose) in a burqa just walked right on thru security ... can I tell you it ticked us off?
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