Ever wonder when you were a child what you would do if you had the power of becoming invisible? That is precisely what the Muslim face covering (the terms niqab, burka and jilbab all apply) allows, and many terrorists, criminals and fugitives have taken advantage of our politically correct weakness toward the religious practices of another culture. It is an essential tool of the Global Jihad as this continuously updated entry will demonstrate. That is the main reason a heavily-promoted campaign is underway to promote its use (see, for example:
Veil-Wearing Muslim Women are Part of our Fight - al-Qaeda Chief).
December 24, 2007:
Woman Caught with Bomb Under Burqa
March 7:
Burka-Clad Taliban Leader Caught as NATO Attacks
January 15:
London Bomb Plotter 'Fled London Wearing Burka'
January 2:
Jihadist Posing as Woman in Veil Assassinates Police Chief
December 20:
Most Wanted Fugitive Escapes UK in Veil
A suspected police killer escaped capture by fleeing Britain disguised as a Muslim woman.
Asylum seeker Mustaf Jama hid beneath a full-face niqab veil to sneak through Heathrow posing as his sister.
Jama, who is wanted for the murder of policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky, also wore a flowing head-to-toe jilbab as he fled to Somalia.
The Muslim gangster had been freed from jail six months earlier when Home Office officials ruled it would be unfair to deport him to his war-torn homeland because it was too dangerous.
Jama was Britain?s most wanted man when, during last year?s Christmas holidays, he sneaked through Heathrow ? even though air, rail and sea ports were on red alert following the murder in Bradford the month before.
He used his sister?s passport to get through a series of security checks. At no stage was he asked to remove the veil so officials could do a proper identity check.
There would have been opportunities as he checked-in for the flight, at the hand-luggage security screening, when passports are produced at embarkation and when boarding the plane.
Last night the Home Office said that although all those who wear a veil are checked as they arrive in the UK, this is ?rarely done? for departing passengers.
A spokesman confirmed: ?It?s not an automatic policy. Immigration officers reserve the right to ask people to remove the veil in order to confirm their identification.?
If necessary, a passenger can be taken to a private room and be asked to remove their veil by a female officer, he said.
BAA, which runs Heathrow, said it is ultimately up to airline cabin staff during boarding whether to ask for a veil to be lifted, a power which is not rigorously enforced.
One intelligence source said: ?The implications of this are truly frightening. The fact that a man who, at the time, was Britain?s most wanted person walked through airport security checks dressed as a woman could be interpreted as an open invitation to terrorists to sneak on to a jumbo jet and blow it up....
?But it is incredible, given the huge manhunt that was on for him, that he could just walk through Heathrow dressed as a Muslim woman?....
The ?20million trial saw the robbers granted exceptional human rights concessions to ensure their ability to fast and pray during Ramadan was not affected.
The court had to see that the men were back in their prison cells at Durham in time for prayers and on one day the court did not sit because it was a Muslim holy day....
Two hours before the robbery, three of the gangsters attempted to pray at a mosque close to their robbery HQ ? a Home Office-funded property for asylum seekers in Leeds.
As a footnote to the above story, the pious cop killer had
said:
Don?t make me kill you on a Friday (a reference to the Muslim holy day).
December 15:
Suicide Bomber Disguised in Burka Attacks in Afghanistan
Burkas are frequently worn to conceal explosive vests
November 23:
Toronto Jewel Thieves in Burkas
October 9:
Suspect in Terror Hunt Used Veil to Evade Arrest
June 19:
Zarqawi Often Used Burka to Escape Capture
