The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America are up in arms over the new body scanners at airports:

“The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) emphasizes that a general and public use of such scanners is against the teachings of Islam, natural law and all religions and cultures that stand for decency and modesty,” the group said in a Feb. 10 statement posted at Islam Online.

"It is a violation of clear Islamic teachings that men or women be seen naked by other men and women," FCNA explained. The group noted that Islam emphasizes modesty, considering it part of the faith. "The Qur'an has commanded the believers, both men and women, to cover their private parts" and to be modest in their dress. 

While exceptions can be made in cases of "extreme necessity," FCNA indicated that passenger body scans do not rise to that level. FCNA is asking for changes in scanner software so the machines will produce only body outlines. In the meantime, the group says Muslim travelers should choose pat-down searches over scanner images – in cases where searches are necessary.
 
The Fiqh Council of North America is an affiliate of the Islamic Society of North America, which advises and educates its members and officials “on matters related to the application of Shari’ah (Islamic law) in their individual and collective lives in the North American environment.”
 
The Council on American-Islamic Relations also issued a news release on Wednesday, endorsing FCNA's statement on the use of body scanners.

Something tells me that we shouldn't be listening to CAIR and ISNA on our national security. 

CAIR, after all, is the same group that suggested in October 1998 that a billboard in Los Angeles be removed because it described Osama bin Laden as "the sworn enemy."  CAIR also rejected the idea that bin Laden was responsible for the Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.  CAIR has been closely associated with groups that finance terrorism (it protested the closing of the terror-funding front Holy Land Foundation).  Daniel Pipes breaks them down thoroughly here, explaining, "at least five of its employees and board members have been arrested, convicted, deported, or otherwise linked to terrorism-related charges and activities."

ISNA is no better, as Sherrie Gossett of AIM has accurately documented. Most notably, they are sponsored by the Saudi government, and they have embraced radical Islamists including Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the man who wrote the Islamic theological justification for suicide bombings that Hamas uses.

Here's the bottom line: we can't let radical Muslim groups dictate our national security.  The whole reason we have body scanners in the first place is because we are too wussy to simply profile young Muslims, as we should, for extra screening.  In Israel, they look for bombers, not bombs; they assume a 90-year-old white lady with a knife won't be a problem.  Here, we put everyone through these idiotic screening machines looking for bombs like this:

Wouldn't it be easier to look for terrorists like this?