TSA Is NOT Exempting Muslim Women From Airport Groping

Here are the choices for everyone: You go through the scanner or you get groped. Unfortunately, people are so gullible that the rumor that the Obama administration is exempting Muslim women from groping is afire on the Internet and Twitter. It's not true. If anyone had any sense -- at all -- they'd verify something before they took to the Internet. But that's not the way smear campaigns work. Folks willingly let themselves be exploited. Come on people, get some smarts. At least fact check:

In the United States there will be nothing to change because, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) because the agency will not allow airline passengers to get out of body imaging screening or pat-downs based on their religious beliefs.
Fox News reports that TSA chief John Pistole told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that passengers who refuse to go through a full-body scanner machine and reject a pat-down will not be allowed to board, even if they turned down the in-depth screening for religious reasons.

“That person is not going to get on an airplane,” Pistole said in response to a question from Senator John Ensign (R-Nevada), on whether the TSA would provide exemptions for passengers whose religious beliefs do not allow them to go through a physically revealing body scan or be touched by screeners.Homeland Security News

From the Washington Examiner:

The Transportation Security Administration says airline passengers won't get out of body imaging screening or pat-downs based on their religious beliefs.
TSA chief John Pistole told the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that passengers who refuse to go through a full-body scanner machine and reject a pat-down won't be allowed to board, even if they turned down the in-depth screening for religious reasons.
"That person is not going to get on an airplane," Pistole said in response to a question from Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., on whether the TSA would provide exemptions for passengers whose religious beliefs do not allow them to go through a physically revealing body scan or be touched by screeners.

Libertarian Ron Paul wants all travelers to ask to be groped, not scanned, on Nov. 24. It's interesting that when the Bush administration tightened security at the airports, people would've stripped naked. Now folks are in an uproar. All it would take for people to run scared is another terrorist with explosives in his underwear. Fact is, we'll never be safe. I wish the airports could be like they used to be, when we used to be able to meet people at the gates.