CAF Goes Ballistic Over Increased Scrutiny During Hajj

What fun! The Canadian Arab Federation's fearless leader is having conniptions--again. From the Toronto Sun:

Yemeni citizens and some Arabs travelling through Pearson airport on their pilgrimage to Mecca are being racially profiled for secondary checks and interviews by national security agents, says the Canadian Arab Federation.

Travellers with Yemeni passports are sent to an interview room where they are questioned by agents of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service on their background and trip to Canada, Pearson officers confirmed.

Arab community members are concerned that thousands of Muslims returning home to Toronto this week from the Hajj, in Saudi Arabia, will be detained for questioning at Pearson. The Hajj ends on Tuesday.

Yemenis and Arabs who have gone through Yemen are subject to luggage and body searches by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), officers said. Some undergo full-body scanning and explosive detection screening.

“All Yemenis are being penalized because of the work of a few,” said federation president Khaled Mouammar. “This sort of profiling has been happening for a long time and it has to stop.”

Mouammar said Arabs are being targeted during the holiest time of their year. He said police should target terror suspects — not all Yemenis or Arabs...

Don't worry, Khaled. Jenny Lynch has your back.