Whingeing & Whining with success: Mohammed Elmasry shows how its done!
Sensitivity Training for Canada Airports
CAIRO — Hundreds of officers at Pearson, Canada’s busiest airport, will receive sensitivity training to guarantee a better treatment of Muslim and Arab passengers, to the welcome of lobbying groups, Toronto Star reported on Thursday, July 31.“The CBSA constantly takes steps including outreach and training to ensure our services are not discriminatory or perceived to be discriminatory,” said Patrizia Giolti, spokesperson for the Canada Border Services Agency.
The sensitivity courses, to start from September through March, will be give to 500 officers at Pearson airport, Canada’s busiest airport.
The aim is to help officers “effectively perform their enforcement responsibilities in a respectful manner,” said the CBSA.
Muslim passengers have long complained of being singled out for searches at Canadian airports.
They are often questioned about their activities and purchase abroad, have their luggage searched and passport information taken down.
“We feel that this is a type of profiling, which must cease,” said Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress.
“After 9/11 we became all potential terrorists without doubt, and we still have some examples of people being picked up from the line because they wear long beards or the hijab,” agrees Mohamed Boudjenane, executive director of the Canadian Arab Federation.
“It still happens on a regular basis.”…
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* Â Horror of horrors! For, as everyone knows, Methodist grandmothers are just as likely to commit an act of terror as young Muslim males!
The aim is to help officers “effectively perform their enforcement responsibilities in a respectful manner,” said the CBSA. Muslim passengers have long complained of being singled out for searches at Canadian airports. (imagine the hide, the audacity of these filthy kuffars to inconvenience the soldiers of Allah..!)
Insensitive treatment of Muslims, no mo can do…
Correct treatment of Muslims: putting them in charge of airport security!
They are often questioned about their activities and purchase abroad, have their luggage searched and passport information taken down.
“We feel that this is a type of profiling, which must cease,” said Mohamed Elmasry, president of the Canadian Islamic Congress.
“After 9/11 we became all potential terrorists without doubt, and we still have some examples of people being picked up from the line because they wear long beards or the hijab,” agrees Mohamed Boudjenane, executive director of the Canadian Arab Federation.
“It still happens on a regular basis.”
Lobbying
Elmasry hailed the sensitivity courses are an “excellent idea”.
He said the courses are in line with seminars and speeches his group has organized for federal employees over the past two years about the treatment of Muslim passengers.
Boudjenane, of the Canadian Arab Federation, agrees.
“That sort of proactive act, or measure, didn’t come out of the blue,” he insisted.
His group has organized meetings with federal employees to discuss complaints of profiling of and discrimination against Muslim passengers.
“We had to lobby very hard with them to realize that you cannot (target certain groups) because you have preconceived perceptions or because there are all sorts of clichés out there.”
Muslims make up around 1.9 percent of Canada’s some 32.8 million population.
Their number has increased dramatically over the last decade and Islam has become the number one non-Christian faith in Canada.
A recent survey showed that the overwhelming majority of Muslims are proud to be Canadian, and that they are more educated than the general population.
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And again – everyone can integrate with few problems, except muslims who need special treatment. What a load of ……………..
What on earth is wrong with profiling? If you’re looking for apples, do you have to look in all other types of fruit trees first? That’s totally illogical and unscientific. Whine as they might, the only ones blowing up innocent people are mosque rats. If I were in charge of security, I’d fire every member of my staff who wasted his time by scrutinizing oriental women and elderly blacks before he had thoroughly examined every last moslem.
There is an easy way for these awful people to avoid being stereotyped – stop behaving stereotypically.
My wife, who works in a commercial kitchen preparing in-flight meals had to endure a 2-hour course on how to treat the meals prepared for Royal Brunei (Royal Brown-eye!) and Malaysian Airlines. Some Malaysian muslim dim-wit spruiked on for about 2 hours on what to prepare & what not to prepare & WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP! Feed ’em all PORK!!!