Editorial Bear

Wait a second? Did I read this right?

A man dressed in a full burhka, took his sister's passport and walked straight through Airport Security? And he didn't get checked? At all?

Oh my God! What a complete joke! This is appauling!

There are certain bits I like especially about this article:

Asked whether Mustaf Jama had used a full Muslim veil to evade checks, a spokesman for West Yorkshire police said: "It's a possibility. He could have been wearing a pantomime horse outfit as well. But until we get him, we won't know for sure."

So does that mean I'd be allowed through airport security unchecked if I wore a pantomime horse outfit? That they wouldn't even ask me to take the head off to check that I was who I was claiming to be?

I mean, bloody hell. This means anybody - ANYBODY - could come and go through British borders dressed in a burhka. Osama Bin Laden could don the veil, borrow anybody's passport (since they don't check, he doesn't even need to superficially resemble the owner) and come and go to his heart's content.

For Christ's sake, Osama's probably hopping over here to do his Christmas shopping - I mean, after all the sale's on at Harrods.

"The idea that under any circumstances you could be let through passport control wearing a veil is barely credible," said David Davis, the Conservative's Home Affairs spokesman. "Doing so when an All Persons Bulletin for murder has been issued demonstrates that our borders are not just porous but non-existent."

Aside from winning the award for Most Blatantly Obvious Statement of the Week, David Davis has just secured my conservative vote in the next general election. Because it is CRAZY that people can go through the ENTIRE SECURITY process and not have ANYBODY peek under their veil.

Hey, when I go to America I have to get stopped at the border and fingerprinted EVERY TIME to ensure that I am the same Roland Hulme they have on their immense security database. So if somebody who looked like me (that bugger Chris Evans, for example) nabbed my passport and tried to blag his way past security at J.F.K., he'd be found out immediately and get the full cavity search he so richly deserves.

Why on earth don't we have the same security in England?

"However BAA denied it was responsible and said individual airlines should be checking passengers' passport details."

Wait? The British Airport Authority doesn't feel it's responsible for checking passports? Then what are they responsible for? Making sure there are no peanuts on the airplane? I thought the whole reason we had a British Airport Authority was to keep our airports secure.

But it's this bit I like most of all:

"It is like open season against Muslims in this country," Ahmed Versi, editor of the Muslim News newspaper told Reuters.

How utterly disgusting.

Because the truth is actually the opposite. If anybody Jewish, Hindi or Christian demanded to be allowed through customs while wearing a full body covering - which obscured their face to the extent that their identity and gender couldn't be determined - they would be stopped and the covering removed. Immediately. With no arguement.

But because we Brits are pandering wildly to the demands of the muslim community - bending over backwards to comply with whatever batshit crazy requests they insist on. We're so worried about not being rascist or politically incorrect that we are willing to bypass basic security measures simply so as not to offend. But since it's muslims who are behind the terror attacks in New York, Madrid and London, it's pure insanity to give them less security screening when - at the risk of sounding politically incorrect - they should be subjected to more.

And Ahmed Versi's comments disgust me even more so because the crazy rants the muslim community make are getting more and more ridiculous. How can a simple observation - that the suspect excaped in a veil - be seen as an attack on the muslim community?

If the muslim community demand that we start censoring TRUTH and FACT from the media then we're in trouble. The suspect used a veil to escape capture. Saying that is not an attack on muslims. That would be like somebody saying Nazi allegations of a POW using a wooden horse as cover to dig an escape tunnel is an attack on the British community.

But the sad truth is, Ahmed Versi and the muslim community quickly get the attention and capitulation they demand when they 'cry out' against alleged injustice. Just like a two year old throwing a tantrum, the more we give in to the muslim community, the more they'll see how effective their rants and riots can be.

We need the political equivilant of a 'naughty step.' Ahmed Versi needs to be sent to his room without any supper to think VERY HARD about what his community has done.