Benedict criticizes airport body scanners

[Fantine]

Ban Muslims from airplanes and then there will be no problem and no body scanners.

Ban Muslims from airplanes and you may well discover that OPEC will ban sales of fuel to airlines that follow this practice

That sure would put us up the creek without a paddle, wouldn't it?

 

[Secundulus]

Ban Muslims from airplanes and you may well discover that OPEC will ban sales of fuel to airlines that follow this practice

OPEC doesn't sell directly to airlines. Anyway, since those countries produce absolutely nothing else, they aren't going to stop selling oil and face total economic collapse.

 

[ebia]

Ban Muslims from airplanes and you may well discover that OPEC will ban sales of fuel to airlines that follow this practice

That sure would put us up the creek without a paddle, wouldn't it?

It would make sure nobody crashes an aeroplane into anything though. They are a bit big to push.

 

[ebia]

OPEC doesn't sell directly to airlines. Anyway, since those countries produce absolutely nothing else, they aren't going to stop selling oil and face total economic collapse.

The US is not the only market, especially with China and India growing fast.

 

[ebia]

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[Secundulus]

The US is not the only market, especially with China and India growing fast.

We account for 35% of world oil imports. Are they willing to cut that much?

 

[ebia]

We account for 35% of world oil imports. Are they willing to cut that much?

Some of that would be taken up elsewhere. For the rest, I suspect they would - especially aware as they are that China and India's hunger for resources are only going to grow rapidly.

 

[Secundulus]

Some of that would be taken up elsewhere. For the rest, I suspect they would - especially aware as they are that China and India's hunger for resources are only going to grow rapidly.

Kind of ironic that they would cut off oil because we constrain Islam at the same time that they outlaw anything other than Islam.

Actually, that is not ironic at all given that it is in their holy book.

Anyway, none of it is going to happen anyway.

We are already dhimmis. Yesterday, Washington DC police enforced sharia law for a local mosque by forcibly removing muslim women from worshipping in the main prayer room. WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio - News Features for Monday February 22, 2010