"CAIR Welcomes TSA Hajj Sensitivity Training"

Via this long article we learn that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration has issued a press release (shown above) with the wonderful news that the TSA has received "sensitivity training" from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in regards to travelers on the Hajj. The release at the TSA's site is basically the same as that from CAIR. That organization is so bad that even Salon has done an expose on them and even - gasp - Barbara Boxer has distanced herself from them.

The press release quotes Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR:

"We welcome the fact that airport security officers nationwide will now be better informed about Islamic traditions relating to Hajj... This proactive effort on the part of the Transportation Security Administration demonstrates that there is no contradiction between the need to maintain airline safety and security and the duty to protect the religious and civil rights of airline passengers."

Here's an earlier quote from Hooper:

"I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future... But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education."

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