This blog is about to get fatwa'd

I'm not usually one to go out of my way to fear monger against our Muslim brothers and sisters. After all our President is one and I have most of the religious right and GOP to do that for me. But the fact does remain that Muslim men are the leading group of fuckheads that make air travel so difficult and fraught with potentially exploding groins. (Other leading fuckheads: airlines themselves, our nation's traveling moneyed schizophrenics, all babies, and yours truly when yet another gullible stewardess has accidentally "overserved" me)

So count me as among the spiritually unmoved when I hear this in response to new high tech ways to make sure people aren't smuggling C4 in their tighty whiteys.

Saying that body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslim-American groups are supporting a “fatwa” – a religious ruling – that forbids Muslims from going through the scanners at airports.

The Fiqh Council of North America – a body of Islamic scholars that includes some from Michigan – issued a fatwa this week that says going through the airport scanners would violate Islamic rules on modesty.

Yeah, I don't know how to tell you this, but our nation isn't going to be all that broken up by conditions that result in less Muslim men on airplanes and better security. I think we as a society are going to muddle on with the knowledge that unless that whole Catholic/Protestant terrorism thing kicks up again (quitters!) we could someday dream of a future where we were able to keep our shoes on and transport dangerous contraband like Pert Plus and water onto airplanes.

Hey, you can always "Go Greyhound" and sample our nation's terrible commuter rail system. Just a suggestion: maybe you should have gone with a little lobbying or maybe pointed out a few studies that showed the scanners as lacking or gone the whole "these scanners are child porn" route that some chose before jumping right to the religious edict stage. Good luck with getting this country to care about your carefully considered fatwas.