Niqab Security Risk

Submitted by Mark D (United States), Mar 4, 2014 at 22:36

…while two veiled women simply walk through.

To my astonishment, the agent did not demand to see the niqabi's face…

An involuntary shiver ran down my spine at the thought that a man, a terrorist, could be behind the niqab.This is a security risk, Dr. Pipes. I do not want to wake up one day and be so startled, froze, mouth open, eyes glazed, mind blank, that a terrorist, wearing a niqab, has hijacked a plane or bombed a plane at the airport. We have to be proactive, not reactive ...

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