Hijab invites suspicion for woman at Canadian airport, CAIR reports new potential issues to Obama

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wrote President Obama a letter stating that Muslim women in hijabs may be targeted at airports. A Muslim woman at Canada’s Halifax Stanfield International Airport was detained for four hours and interrogated harshly. She was boarding a plane to the US to see her husband in Ohio and was…

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Airline security and fighting al-Qaida

According to this editorial, Obama must remain creative in addressing security lapses and not focus on large-scale airport security screening to thwart al-Qaida. The Abdulmutallab attack proves strides have been made in security since 9/11, but Obama must ensure the response is creative and doesn’t just react to this particular tactic, as al-Qaida’s job is…

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Charges filed against Abdulmutallab

A Michigan grand jury has charged Abdulmutalab with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in a terror attack, attempted murder, attempting to destroy an aircraft, willfully placing a bomb on an aircraft, use of a bomb during a violent crime, and possession of a bomb during a violent crime. He faces life in…

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Attack on flight from Dutch airport raises security questions

Dutch coverage of the December 25 attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to set off an explosion on the Northwest Air flight from Amsterdam to Detroit has centered largely on security issues. As Dutch News reports, national papers devote much attention to reconstructing what happened on board flight 253, the actions of the passenger who overpowered…

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    Muslim Pilgrimage Spurs Screeners’ Training

    A month after the removal of six imams from a U.S. Airways flight spurred accusations of harassment, the federal government has given airport security trainers cultural awareness training about the Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. This year, an estimated 16,000 American Muslims are making the annual pilgrimage, called the hajj – including several hundred from…

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