naomi - // Oh no! We've hit a snag! One bomber might be a woman! Oh well, good enough reason to wave everyone through with no checks at all. :o/ //
That is clearly neither what I said, or what I meant, and you know that, which is why you are being mischievous, or, in your own idiom, silly.
No checking system is faultless, but the notion that you start overtly targeting devout Muslim men because of their appearance simply plays into the propaganda of Islamists.
How much would they delight in the evidence that what they believe is true - that Westerners hate and fear Islam, and should be resisted with Jihad - because here are Westerners persecuting innocent Muslim men based purely on the visible evidence of their faith.
The point I am making is that the system has to be discreet and carefully controlled, and not advertised in a honking great PR stunt by an airline chairman.