The Cybercast News Service website reports today (November 19, 2010) that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Chief John Pistole told a Senate Committee this week that air passengers selected by the TSA for enhanced screening who decline to undergo either a full body scan or a full body pat down will not be allowed to board planes in the United States.
There will be no exceptions -- even for people who cite religious reasons for refusing the scan or pat down -- Pistole emphasized.
The question became an issue after the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) last week recommended that Muslim women who wear the hijab not submit to full body pat downs when going through pre-boarding security checks at airports.
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