Will hijab and clothes become useless ?

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I just came across an article on the main page of msn, about digital penetration, invasion of the naked body SCANNERS ?

From the article it seems that some governments might be implementing them in airports.

If it happens!(Allah forbid) how would a common person be able to protect his beliefs, specially muslims to practice Hijab of their whole body.

p.s. I have posted it in the religon section so as to discuss it from religious point of view.

Source: Invasion of the naked body scanners.

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You can always request a person of your same sex scan you. Its like going to a doctor. Don't you pull down your pants for a testicular exam, or hai Allah, God forbid someone grab your cahoonas other than your wife?

Sometimes its a necessity to bare your bare essentials.

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Thanks for sharing your "this" perspective. The rest in your post was not required.

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An excellent comment in the link.

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Of course, the 'experimental' and 'voluntary' use under very rigid protocols is just the proverbial camel's nose under the tent. The idea is apparently that someday everyone, without exception, will need to go through one of these to get on an airplane. Of course, once that legal justification is made, then there isn't must reason that you can't be required to go through them anywhere else. To get on a bus? To walk into a federal building? Every day at school? What about private businesses that want their own machines? To replace metal detectors at the door of your favorite club?

As they become more common, of course, the "high/strict standards" imposed will invariably crumble before the reality of the modern economic world. You may be able to have all these safeguards at the airport, but that will be an exception. And, of course, not really "everyone" will be required to suffer any indignities associated with such a check. As always, there will almost certainly be exceptions to the requirements for certain select groups of people/VIPs.

In addition, these scanning machines may very well become great devices for biometric identification. Of course, the whole task of identification will throw away the 'anonymity' argument -- but that is the next step. For now we are all quite safe...

Such scanning may or may not turn out to be a good idea. But let's not kid ourselves about this being at the airport only, and only with the rigid protocols that have been described so far. Get ready for a whole lot of scanning...

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this is all heading the George Orwell- 1984- Big Brother way, as usual

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Your thread is not required, and yet we still have the patience and respect to respond to silly thread topics. Be mindful to be just as respectful in return, or alternatively - can it.

Blurring the lines between right and wrong...a new trend
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You're good, intelligent people :) Relax

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The question in the title of this thread is "Will hijab and clothes become useless ?"

I think that may be a bit over-dramatic (just a bit, not too much, of course). People are not going around streets wearing x-ray vision glasses (although that day may not be far either). Having to go through an invasive scanner like this at the airports and other secured location is not same as walking around naked on the streets.

I agree with the point made in Iconoclast's post that even though they are going to great lengths to make this a less embarassing event, but gradually this will open up and these machines will be placed all over. A very well known American Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin once famously said "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. " While I am not sure if here they "deserve" liberty or safety, but clearly people are willing to give up their essential liberty (the right not to be electronically stripped naked in a public place) to get a little temporary safety.

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^ Thanks brother for a beautiful reply. Much appreciated. :)

redidentity *smilestar*
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Edited

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:clap:

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its scaremongering i think.

i think americans are much more (rightfully) paranoid about invasion of privacy than the rest of the world, for example the UK. here its commonplace to have cctv anywhere, with or without warning, and people live with it.

if the concern is a nightclub owner might use a machine that does show more than whats being shown at the airport then that could always be a legal requirement for the production of these machines, i.e. never allow any image out of their hardware that isnt anonymized.

i mean you can with existing hardware capture images of people without them knowing right, a nightclub could put a camera in the bathroom if they wanted. why doesnt that (normally) happen? because its illegal to do so.

i am sure that the company manufacturing these things must be forced to have a rigorous ethical review. i know its required in the UK for stuff I do, and UK is looser about these things.

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yess