Nearly a month ago, a college student was getting ready to board his flight at Philadelphia International Airport, when he was asked to step aside, held in a questioning room for hours, handcuffed, and missed his flight for the day.

What exactly was it that made TSA suspicious of Nick George, the college senior from Pomona College in California? It certainly wasn’t his appearance. He’s got a clean-cut, California-surfer look that should have made it easy for him to breeze past the metal detectors and security.

Only days ago, a Muslim woman was asked to leave her local pool for wearing inappropriate swimwear. No, she was not wearing anything that would be considered offensive or revealing. She had donned the popular “burqini” that many Muslim women wear when they go swimming or to the beach.

Carole, a 35-year-old French Muslim convert, had bought her burqini on a trip to Dubai, because she wanted to swim freely while enjoying the modesty that the swimsuit provided. When back in France, she bought summer tickets to her local public pool for herself and her children. It seemed that they were allowed to swim without harassment until an official banned the use of the covered swimsuit for “hygienic purposes.”  Read more>>