Airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the Islamic law perspective

The alarming rate of aviation offences such as the offence of aircraft hijacking in the 21st century warrants the need to adopt various preventive and suppressive measures to prevent these offences. The current method to prevent and suppress these offences is to subject every passenger to screening...

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Main Authors:	Adua, Ismail Mustapha, Hamid, Abdul Ghafur@Khin Maung Sein, Abdul Wahab, Mohammed Iqbal
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Islamic University Malaysia 2015
Subjects:	K Law (General) KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh
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spelling	iium-452942017-10-30T04:05:02Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/45294/ Airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the Islamic law perspective Adua, Ismail Mustapha Hamid, Abdul Ghafur@Khin Maung Sein Abdul Wahab, Mohammed Iqbal K Law (General) KBP1 Islamic law.Shariah.Fiqh The alarming rate of aviation offences such as the offence of aircraft hijacking in the 21st century warrants the need to adopt various preventive and suppressive measures to prevent these offences. The current method to prevent and suppress these offences is to subject every passenger to screening of their body and baggage through the imaging technologies and physical searching called “pat down”, the purpose of which is to detect the presence of weapons, explosives and other dangerous materials that will aid the commission of any of these offences. As a sequel to the adoption of these methods, many queries have been raised especially from the human rights activists who argue that the so-called imaging technologies intrude on the fundamental human rights of passengers. While some passengers support the argument of the activists, others are in support of the aviation security practitioners. The question therefore is: what is the position of Islamic law on the screening of airline passengers using imaging technology? The present article intends to answer this question. International Islamic University Malaysia 2015-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/45294/1/Airline_Passengers%27_Screening_%28Article%29.pdf Adua, Ismail Mustapha and Hamid, Abdul Ghafur@Khin Maung Sein and Abdul Wahab, Mohammed Iqbal (2015) Airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the Islamic law perspective. IIUM Law Journal, 23 (1). pp. 133-148. ISSN 2289-7852 (O), 0128-2530 (P) http://journals.iium.edu.my/iiumlj/index.php/iiumlj/article/view/157
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description	The alarming rate of aviation offences such as the offence of aircraft hijacking in the 21st century warrants the need to adopt various preventive and suppressive measures to prevent these offences. The current method to prevent and suppress these offences is to subject every passenger to screening of their body and baggage through the imaging technologies and physical searching called “pat down”, the purpose of which is to detect the presence of weapons, explosives and other dangerous materials that will aid the commission of any of these offences. As a sequel to the adoption of these methods, many queries have been raised especially from the human rights activists who argue that the so-called imaging technologies intrude on the fundamental human rights of passengers. While some passengers support the argument of the activists, others are in support of the aviation security practitioners. The question therefore is: what is the position of Islamic law on the screening of airline passengers using imaging technology? The present article intends to answer this question.
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author	Adua, Ismail Mustapha Hamid, Abdul Ghafur@Khin Maung Sein Abdul Wahab, Mohammed Iqbal
author_facet	Adua, Ismail Mustapha Hamid, Abdul Ghafur@Khin Maung Sein Abdul Wahab, Mohammed Iqbal
author_sort	Adua, Ismail Mustapha
title	Airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the Islamic law perspective
title_short	Airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the Islamic law perspective
title_full	Airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the Islamic law perspective
title_fullStr	Airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the Islamic law perspective
title_full_unstemmed	Airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the Islamic law perspective
title_sort	airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the islamic law perspective
publisher	International Islamic University Malaysia
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/45294/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45294/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/45294/1/Airline_Passengers%27_Screening_%28Article%29.pdf
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Airline passengers’ screening: an appraisal from the Islamic law perspective

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