By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
And now for the latest complications in airport security.
The Detroit Free Press reported that a body of Islamic scholars known as the Figh Council of North America has issued a religious ruling that forbids Muslims from passing through airport body scanners.
The paper reported that the ruling, known as a “fatwa”, was issued this week and says that going through a scanner “would violate Islamic rules of modesty.”
“It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women,” reads the fatwa issued Tuesday, according to the paper.
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