July 16, 2008, - 10:21 am
Why Are Muslims @ the Border So Protective of Their Electronics?
By Debbie Schlussel
Today, USA Today has an editorial whining about Customs and Border Protection agents searching people’s laptops and handheld devices at the Canadian and Mexican borders. (Michael “Serpenthead”/”Mr. Burns” Chertoff has a very limp op-ed in response.)
Given that various of these electronics have been used to blow up Americans abroad and could be used to do the same here–and given that terrorists use laptops to plan their attacks, I’m not sure what the problem is here. Except that the ones do the loudest whining are Muslims.
USA Today doesn’t tell you that in its ACLU-esque editorial today, but it did in a cover story just after Independence Day. The story was about Jawad Khaki, a British Muslim (USA Today won’t admit in the story that he’s a “Religion of Pieces” member) who expatriated to the U.S. and frequently travels abroad. He bitched about the fact that his smartphone has been repeatedly checked at the border. And to make the point of how faux-patriotic he is, like many Muslims after 9/11, he poses in front of an American flag. Awww, touching.
Khaki’s an upper class executive, after all, and they would never–nevah evah!–commit terrorism, would they? Especially a British Muslim who repeatedly travels in and out of America. Nope, not your ideal candidate for an evil-doer. Methinks Jed Clampett and his nephew Jethro are far more likely to blow up Americans for Allah than a British Muslim who goes on mysterious trips in and out of America. Same with Grandma Josephine. She’s more likely to blow up Americans with her electronic heart monitor than a British Muslim guy named Jawad with his smartphone.
And listen to the torturous, hurtful “harassment” Mr. Jawad has had to subject himself to, all in the name of that unimportant thing called national security:
“I’ve had to unlock my phone and show them my scheduled tasks, calendar and contacts,” said Khaki, 50.
Wow, can you believe they put this formerly-British Muslim through such horrible treatment? So sad, too bad. I feel like I have to cue up the Ron Burgundy scene from “Anchorman,” in which he tells us how important he is.
It’s much ado about nothing. If this Muslim man is upset they check his smartphone, here’re a few tips: 1) Don’t bring it. 2) Don’t travel. 3) Go back to Britain, where Muslims have free reign and your phone won’t be checked by puppies wearing booties.
And you have to wonder why Muslims at the border are so protective of their electronics. What are they hiding? Don’t forget that the two smiling “Just Fireworks” Muslims caught in a terrorist plot in South Carolina were using their laptop when they were caught by state troopers.
If Mr. Khaki is so upset and inconvenienced at the border by opening up his phone for a few seconds of examination, he ought to try flying. Then, he’d have to join the rest of us and find out that we have to take our shoes off, walk on the scuzzy floor barefoot, and open up our laptops to a chick with a TSA badge, who sometimes–in the case of Detroit–is wearing a hijab. Now, THAT is real degradation.
This line,from the USA Today editorial, is pretty funny:
“Customs should detail standards, safeguards for device searches.”
Instead of giving the the details of how our security works, why don’t we just tell them how to evade it directly?
I_am_me on July 16, 2008 at 11:07 am