Hijab comment at airport

The creator of Fireman Sam, David Jones was stopped at a Heathrow airport after making a silly little quip which was not aggressive, discriminatory or racist.  As a woman wearing a hijab walked through Jones said "If I was wearing my scarf over my face I wonder what would happen?"  He was then detained for a hour by cretinous airport officials and questioned by Police.  This was the comment of a man who is frustrated with how crazy political correctness has become.  He got penalised and he was not wearing any suspicious clothing.  He was white, a male and a pensioner.  This man was penalised more because he spoke his mind, in a country with alleged free speech he suffered.  The individual who needs re educating is the one who took the decision Jones should be detained.  This was an innocent comment.  If we are to take political correctness further every individual who wears an item which obscures their face should be stopped and asked to remove it.  As human beings we read faces, eyes are the windows to the soul.  Facial expression tells a lot, if people are happy, sad, tense or shifty these expressions are universal.  The incredibility of this story was such that as the news papers were reviewed on the Andrew Marr Show this Sunday morning, Andrew Marr himself verbally skited over the subject and directed his fellow paper reviewers away from it.  This is supposed to be a serious political correspondent and he can not make up his mind whether he should speak for reason or not.  Again no doubt there was some apprehension, after all he had a show to run and didn't want to be stopped for an hour.  Sad, because this is a serious political question and brief discussion was most certainly warranted.

In security terms this is probably more important than moronic airport staff.  If someone is acting in a suspicious clues to their actions will be more apparent from the expression on their face.  It should therefore go, ever airport in the country should have a rule of no head wear except in the case of medical necessity, and a doctor's note.  Religion should not be allowed to become a justification for terrorism.  If a fanatic is going to do something to endanger the lives of others they will do it in a way to shroud their intentions.  Jones, should be given a medal for saying what the rest of us think.  Indeed.  There is nothing to stop Jones from going out and creating his own religious group, one where males cover their faces and walk in public areas.  I wonder then what everyone would be saying. 

Lastly the actions of these official trumped up self important persons has now made the notion of a free society, and freedom of speech questionable.  We all have opinions in this world and we are allowed to state them.  If the woman in the hijab didn't moan about Jones comments why should it matter to someone else.  She had the equal right to complain, she didn't.   For the sake of security let us now argue for the removal off head and facial coverings at our airports and certainly in all european countries.