A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR AIRPORT SECURITY

Here I am in Ireland and the last thing in the world I am looking forward to is flying through London Heathrow to get back home. 

British intel was tipped off by some good guys inserted by Parvez Musharaff into ISI (Pakistan intel) about a Moslem terrorist plot to blow up airliners flying out of Heathrow to America.  So the security is a nightmare – for everyone, not just Moslems.

Thus I was thrilled to hear about The Heroes of Malaga – British passengers on a Monarch Airlines flight from Malaga, Spain to Manchester, England on August 16 who refused to fly until two Moslems were taken off the plane.

Malaga is on the Costa del Sol, Spain's Sun Coast.  This is August and it is really hot.  Everyone on the plane is wearing t-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops – except these two guys, who are dressed in winter coats and speaking Arabic. 

To their eternal moral credit, some moms and dads decided they were not going to risk the lives of their children (and their own) for the sake of political correctness, and walked off the plane.

Other passengers followed.  Then the pilot and the crew demanded the two Moslems, Sohail Ashraf and Khurram Zeb, be ejected, which they were by the Spanish police.

The liberal British media was horrified.  The London Daily Mail ran a story entitled Asian students' shock at ejection from jet by passenger mutiny.  It is forbidden, you see, to refer to Moslems as such in the British media.  The accepted code word is "Asian" – as if they were Chinese or Japanese, anything but Moslem.

Further outrage was expressed in the British media when on August 21, a British Pakistani Moslem, Amar Ashraf, was ordered off a Continental Airlines flight from Manchester to Newark.  Claiming "racial profiling," he plans to file a formal complaint with Continental, telling the London Daily Mirror he was "humiliated."

He is not, of course, humiliated by the terrorism of his fellow Moslems.  Nor, evidently, does he care about the humiliation of every non-Moslem airline passenger who has to take off his shoes, go through body pat-downs, have their personal effects pawed over, and be regarded as a possible criminal.

At Heathrow now, security folks pat down little children.  Mr. Ashraf and the British media have no concern over their humiliation.

So I have a modest proposal to end the humiliation of both Moslems and non-Moslems at airports.  It is:  Non-Moslem airlines only accept as passengers non-Moslems. 

Moslems get to fly on Moslem airlines.  Non-Moslems would be free to fly on Moslem Airlines like Gulf Air or Saudi Air or Pakistan International (there are several others to choose from).  But Moslems would be banned from flying on regular non-Moslem carriers.

Further, there should be no airport security whatever for passengers on Moslem carriers.  Show your ticket, get on the plane, like the good old days.  If Moslem terrorists want to blow up their own people, it's their problem. 

Moslem carriers would be notified, however, that any of their planes deviating from their flight path in American airspace will be shot down by US fighter jets.

Moslems flying with each other on their own airlines will feel safe.  Everyone else gets to fly without worrying about any Moslems aboard who might want a suicide ticket to whorehouse heaven. 

With no Moslems going through airport security, the guards might feel so stupid patting down little kids and grandparents they would give up the charade.

As I said, it's a modest proposal.  And if enough people get sick and tired enough of being humiliated at airport security because of Moslems, it could be contemplated.  It's either that or more passenger mutinies like at Malaga.