Bear in mind, the next time you travel into or out of a big city airport, the humiliation and sexual assault you are going through is all there so that we, as a society, are able to keep deluding ourselves with the notion that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Muslims. There comes a point in time when, in the face of overwhelming evidence, a phobia becomes rational thought. Over the past decade we have been treated to a new word in our lexicon. That word is Islamaphobia. The word pretends that if we would just give up being afraid of Islamic terror, then all would be well, and we would all be cured. Unfortunately, reality has a little something to say about it all. After 17,685 terrorist attacks carried out since September 11, 2001, radical Islamists become something more that a group we are irrationally afraid of, they become a description of the perpetrator for these various crimes. Even if we continue with the mistaken concept that we are not at war with them, they are at war with us. The actions taken by the TSA are guaranteed to protect us from nothing. I have watched in amazement as the 85 year old grandmother was, “randomly selected,” for the more in depth examination before being allowed entrance onto the airplane. I have been equally amazed with the fact that this woman seems to win the prize each and every time a plane departs. The Israelis have used techniques for their airport security that are no where approaching invasive for 99% of their air travel patrons, have a much higher profile as far as being targets for terrorists and terror attacks, and have not suffered a successful attack against their air travel system since the early 1970’s. We should be using their security system as a template for our own, and not this politically correct suicide pact we seem to be holding to.
