'Fatwa' forbids Muslims going through full-body scanners
Muslim-American groups are supporting a "fatwa" issued this week forbidding Muslims to go through full body scanners because it violates Islamic rules on modesty, the Detroit Free Press reports.Free Press reporter Niraj Warikoo writes that the Fiqh Council of North America – a body of Islamic scholars – issued the religious ruling this week.The fatwa says:"It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women. Islam highly emphasizes haya (modesty) and considers it part of faith. The Quran has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations also endorses the ruling, the newspaper says.In a statement, the Transportation Security Administration emphasizes that body scanners are optional to all passengers. Those who turn them down, the TSA says, will receive "equivalent screening," which may include a physical pat-down, hand-wanding and other technologies.The TSA also says the body scanners "do not produce photos, but images that look like chalk outlines."
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i'm curious, what do you guys think
of this new trend, bands asking for money on the webs, latest static static. i like them, but come on, you're carrying. box elders, got stuff ripped off twice that i know of, don't you have to take resposibility for yourself at some point?
sorry, i want to help but where were these people when i was ripped off before the internet
"I've got some EKU..."
I don't know about the donation thing- depends on the circumstances, I suppose. If you need a lawyer or bail money with a much better prospect of years in the pen without 'em, I can understand the desperation and the plea. Sometimes, though, it doesn't seem right to put folks on the spot. I never feel guilty for not giving, though, so...
Is the plea always based upon some incident like their stuff was stolen? I guess i could see that, but basically my donation for bands is based upon live shows and vinyl. Period. If you need more money, play more gigs.
Or start dealing drugs. Thats what the Busted Lives did.
static static was busted with drugs. on rereading my original post, it sounds like an old man walking uphill both ways in the snow to school, in my day...
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