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FOX News: Airports need Muslim only lines

Posted by Jennifer Fox at 7:56 AM on August 16, 2006.


FOX contributor Mike Gallagher suggests that the U.S. should implement Muslim only check-in lines at airports.
FOX news: Muslim-only security line

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FOX News has showcased some really sound opinions lately. If Sean Hannity's suggestion that Israel should have just nuked Hezbollah wasn't insane enough for you, check out the opinion FOX contributor Mike Gallagher had when it came to racial profiling:

"It’s time to have a Muslims check-point line in America’s airports and have Muslims be scrutinized. You better believe it, it’s time."
Gallagher says this quietly at first, but the second time, when he says it loudly enough for everyone to hear, some of the audience members--evidently never having heard of civil rights or civil liberties--actually feel compelled to clap in agreement.

Credit should be given to Gallagher’s ‘opponent’ constitutional lawyer Michael Gross for giving the rational side of the argument and saying that it’s behavior that should be looked at—not ethnicity. Something tells me that argument is over Gallagher’s head

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Jennnifer Fox is an AlterNet intern.


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That's how you respond to an idiot.
Posted by: lianne on Aug 16, 2006 9:19 AM   
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Bravo to the guest for calmly and reasonably pointing out the the complete idiocity of the suggestion. How do you even tell who is or is not muslim? Being muslim does not make you arab, and being arab does not make you muslim, and neither should be a determining factor is how you are treated. Like the guest said, look at *behaviour*, not ethnicity or religion.

And the people in the audience applauding are complete morons.

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Totally Disgusting
Posted by: Liberalandproudofit on Aug 16, 2006 10:37 AM   
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I cannot believe that any thinking person, would applaud a statement like that (muslim only). First - only in Iraq are Americans being "blown up". Second - the attack of 9/11 way by airplanes - not bombs.

What about the attempted attack foiled by British Authorities? I question whether or not that attack could have even taken place! What attack? Where is the evidence? IMHO it was nothing more than a bunch of clueless idiots talking and Dick Cheney needed a "boost" after his friend Lieberman lost!

But that is my opinion!

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White jihadis already out there
Posted by: Bobsays on Aug 16, 2006 10:49 AM   
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This would not work as an idea. Pulling over people who have muslim stamped on their travel documents, fails to grasp that there are whites who have converted to islam.

The terrorists will surely use these people if racial profiling is introduced. Already the Belgians have had a white woman blow herself up in Iraq. Chechen 'black widows' are also white.

The best thing to do is to act on intelligence, to introduce sniffing technology, and to get really nasty with known militants (and there are plenty of them in Europe who so ar have not been put in jail)

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» Pointing out White Muslims Posted by: Ouelle
It wouldn't have caught...
Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Aug 16, 2006 10:53 AM   
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Richard Reed

Tim McVeigh

Unabomber

etc...

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That's not Fair!
Posted by: Fade on Aug 16, 2006 10:54 AM   
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Then they would get to their planes a lot faster than the rest of us!

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The Fear Mongering Monster is loose.
Posted by: Christie on Aug 16, 2006 12:27 PM   
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The Fear Mongering Monster is Loose

Guideline to identifying him:

1. encourages fear of terrorists

2. identifies terrorists as “those people”

3. seeks out bogus examples of “those people”

4. promotes programs to protect us against “those people”

5. makes sure those programs inconvenience the public

6. engages the mainstream media in documenting the
inconveniences, not analyzing the credibility of the threats

7. repeats Steps # 3 through # 7 as necessary to maintain
fear in the general populace

8. insists that only the present Administration can protect us
from “those people”

9. issues “official statements” that contain scary words like
“Islamo-fascist” and moments later mentions liberals-
Democrats, hoping our gut picks up a truthiness

10.hopes that we are so scared we dare not vote for (gasp)
Democrats

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And nevermind...
Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Aug 16, 2006 12:55 PM   
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..nevermind how many asian muslims are out there... along with white muslims... black muslims... etc...

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Say the Word People
Posted by: Jsonholm on Aug 16, 2006 1:23 PM   
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Is there some reason why people are afraid to use this word now? Is it somehow associated with being a wacky left-wing nutcase, because in my opinion, calling someone a racist on national television because they suggest that there be a muslims only line at the airport is a moral imperitive. Say it with me now...

Racist, racist, racist....

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Outrageous
Posted by: autocraticforcefeed on Aug 16, 2006 2:31 PM   
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If you want to savage two countries and engage in decades of covert subversion and mass murder, you're gonna get a little blowback. The best way to prevent terrorism is to cease participation in it.

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sadly, we are already there
Posted by: meganita on Aug 16, 2006 3:18 PM   
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As someone who travels via airplane internationally quite often I have noticed that far more non-white people ARE being singled out in airports SINCE 911. It is a frequent sight in airports all over the world these days to see people of colour being pulled aside to have their luggage searched or have their passport looked over a second, third, fourth... time while all the white people pass through the lines no questions asked!

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Sieg Heil!
Posted by: ap0110 on Aug 16, 2006 6:35 PM   
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If I was there I would've been too, too tempted to give him the nazi salute and start agreeing with him in a bad German accent. That is to over-the-top I don't know what's more horrifying, that someone actually suggested Moslem-only lines or that people actually applauded. Sickening. Absolutely stomach-churning.

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Join the Muslim Line
Posted by: Tokyo Tuds on Aug 16, 2006 8:11 PM   
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I am not Arab nor am I Muslim, but if I ever see a "Muslim's Line" at an airport or any other bloody security check, that's the line I will be in. When smoeone tries to tell me I'm in the wrong line, I'll tell them they don't know what they are talking about, and they have no business asking me about my religious background.

Hasn't Gallagher ever heard of human rights?!

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» RE: Join the Muslim Line Posted by: rhinojos
» RE: Join the Muslim Line Posted by: Christie
OH MY GOD!
Posted by: Scientz on Aug 16, 2006 8:58 PM   
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People were fucking APPLAUDING!?!?!

If ever anyone reads there history books and wonders how the Hitler and the Nazis got away with their rise to power, and how they EVER had the consent of the German people, one need only watch this video.

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Because 99.999% of all terrorists who want to kill Amreicans aren't Muslim right?
Posted by: MTreich on Aug 17, 2006 1:12 AM   
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What a joke that this is even an issue.

Of course there should be Muslim only lines.

Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims (well, at least 99.99999999%).

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» Ignorant and bigoted Posted by: HeroesAll
The problem is that we have a plan AT ALL.
Posted by: BJT on Aug 17, 2006 4:23 AM   
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If someone wants to blow up a plane, they will find a way to do it. Performing searches, disallowing liquids or searching for "suspicious behavior" only forces them to be a little more creative and humiliates all the other passengers.

Certainly one guy in the clip was a bigot, but the other guy believed in the idiocy that you can stop this sort of thing with anything short of luck.

Just let people take whatever they want on the planes, including weapons, and if some asshole wants to cause trouble, a few knife-wielding Americans could put a stop to it in a hurry. If he just wants to blow them up without warning--well, there are many other places you can blow up 200 humans no problem. Subways, office buildings, churches, there's really no stopping it. So why invade every American's life trying to?

What we CAN do to fight terrorism is to take our military out of the hundreds of countries we have them stationed in, bring them home, stop engaging in corporate protectionism, stop propping up dictators and stop invading countries that threaten to damage our monetary dominance.

LIBERTY is the answer. What's the question?

This, of course, will probably never occur to the Republicrats or Demopublicans. All this legislation is not about fighting terrorism, it's about control. They crave control. They are totalitarians and it won't stop until we either quit cooperating or demand freedom en masse.

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and again stupidity at it's best!
Posted by: ellie on Aug 17, 2006 5:51 AM   
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Chew on this for a while. As of 2002, before all this Muslim mess ramped up and more people converted to Islam, there were 1.9 billion Christians in the world and 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide. That only gives the Christians a 7 billion population lead. Stats to think about.

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Dear Fox News
Posted by: oldwolf on Aug 17, 2006 9:18 AM   
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Dear Fox News:

1930's Germany called. They want their fascism back.

Thank you.

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Coming up next: pink triangles for all the homosexuals!
Posted by: Tiko on Aug 17, 2006 6:08 PM   
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I cannot believe these FOX idiots. It's time we fought these creeps as hard as we can. Have they no shame, or knowledge of history, for that matter?? This sickened me beyond belief, and what is most sad, or scary--take your pick, is that people are in favour of this sort of thing. Well, I am now a muslim. Frisk me, A**holes!

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