Food for thought
There was a time when a conservative Muslim woman would have preferred death to a touch of her body by anybody other than by her husband. It was unimaginable on the part of a Muslim woman to move outside of her home without cloaking her entire body with a 'burkha' and wrapping a curtain around the passenger seat of a vehicle where she would sit to travel. Getting photographed was also deemed sinful.
But time has changed. Airline passengers from now on will undergo full body scans as security measures are being stepped up after the alleged plan to blow up a plane on Christmas Day.
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