All he needs to do is watch out for Muslim men with a seething anger against the West.

If he finds one of them, he gives them the job.

A Heathrow worker held on suspicion of terrorist fundraising is a baggage handler who loads planes, The Sun can reveal.

The 43-year-old – one of two British Airways employees under arrest – has an airside pass and access to jets.

His job has alarmed security chiefs and raised fears he was planning to plant a bomb on a BA aircraft.

However, Scotland Yard stressed last night the man had been arrested on suspicion of financing terrorism, not of plotting atrocities.

Well, ain’t that a relief! For a minute there, I thought he posed a danger to airline passengers.

Previously on Israellycool: Guess the Profession

New hotness: Ban that funky hairstyle, fatwa

An Islamic body which has issued fatwas on inappropriate behaviour from practising yoga to failing to vote in elections said it is now considering a request to tackle the craze among pupils in religious boarding schools.

Clerics from East Java have also requested a fatwa banning dreadlocks, punk haircuts and “funky hairstyles”.

Aminudin Yakub, the deputy secretary of the Fatwa Commission, said: “For now, we are yet to make an institutional decision on this.

“So far, we have not seen strong evidence to ban it.

“It could be discussed in future but right now it is not a priority.”

“Noooooooooooooooooo!”

Not surprisingly, one of his ideas involves Israel.

Here’s something that could never have happened in the Naughts but will maybe be possible in the Tweens or Teens — if there’s a breakthrough in the Mideast peace process. The idea is an arts festival that celebrates the origin of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Every year it could be held in a different location; Jerusalem would obviously be the best place to start.

In Ireland, at the height of the “Troubles,” it was said that the only solution for rabid sectarianism was to let 1,000 punk-rock bands bloom: music helped create a free space for dialogue (of a high-volume variety). So no politicians allowed. Artists only.

I hate to burst Bono’s bubble (say that quickly ten times), but it’s called the Festival of Festivals, and it has been held in Haifa for the past 16 years.

16th Festival of Festivals in Haifa

THE COLORFUL FESTIVAL

Which promotes coexistence and peace, celebrtaes the December festivals of the three monotheistic religions with a wide range of cultural and artistic events on 5, 12, 19 and 26 December.

The colorful Festival of Festivals, now in its 16th year, takes place every weekend in December in Haifa’s mixed Arab-Jewish Wadi Nisnas neighborhood. The festival promotes good neighborly relations, with cultural and artistic events that celebrate the three main religious festivals that fall in December – Chanuka, Christmas and Eid al-Adha.

This coming from a guy who looks like he was descended from a muppet.

As for my favorite description, it’s a toss-up between “The women of Paradise are pure, unblemished, menstruation-free, free of feces, urine, phlegm, children” and “Each one of them is so beautiful that you can see the bone marrow through the delicate flesh on their legs.”

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Or should that be of “kicking in a door at his own mosque and making a false claim of vandalism” fame (hat tip: Tim Blair).

Australia’s most controversial sheik, Taj Din al-Hilali, has been caught on videotape kicking in a door at his own mosque before calling police to report an act of vandalism.

The head imam at the Lakemba mosque, who caused outrage in 2006 by comparing scantily clad women to uncovered meat, was shown on a CCTV security tape kicking open the door just minutes before reporting the incident.

The Nine Network’s A Current Affair last night broadcast the videotape from March 9, showing the incident, which Sheik Hilali initially denied.

“There is a trick in this camera. There is a trick in this film,” he told ACA.

Zionist Camera of Death perhaps^TM?

But in a letter sent by Sheik Hilali’s lawyers to ACA yesterday, he admitted kicking the door, saying the damage had already been done to the door before he kicked it.

“What he did do was to kick open a door to the mosque that had already been damaged by others in order to gain entry to it,” the letter said.

Worst. Excuse. Ever?

Lebanese Muslim Association president Shawky Kassir said they had called the police “for a little problem, but we have fixed (it) and everything is under control”.

Unless they’ve knocked off Hilali, I would suggest they haven’t fixed the problem.

The footage shows four young men locking the door behind them at 10.28pm.

Nine minutes later, Sheik Hilali checks the lock and pushes on the top of the door, bending it on its hinges. After checking the corridor, he disappears from view before rushing towards it and kicking it open at 10.46pm.

It is understood the name of the suspected culprit was put forward to NSW police, but it is not known if he was interviewed by the authorities.

A NSW Police media spokesperson said they started to investigate the matter but three days later were told by a mosque official that he did not wish to take the matter any further.

“The matter remains under investigation. Further senior members of the local community will be consulted to discuss the incident.”

Update: Here’s the Current Affair treatment of the story, including the offending footage of Hilali practicing his soccer skills on the door.

Update: Of course, this is not the first time Hilali has shown his violent side.

a) Proctologist

b) Standup comedian

c) Circus performer

d) Airport baggage handler

And the answer is…

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As if you didn’t guess.

A Muslim extremist who works as a baggage handler at Luton Airport had his security pass suspended today after it was revealed he took part in a protest hurling abuse at British troops.

Jalal Ahmed was among the 20-strong group of extremists protesting when the Royal Anglian Regiment returned home from Iraq earlier this week.

During their homecoming parade, he was spotted clutching a banner proclaiming: ‘Anglian soldiers: Butchers of Basra’.

After he was revealed to be part of the hate-filled demonstration, his pass allowing him to go airside and work at the airport was revoked.

Ahmed, who is in his twenties and lives in Luton, works on a casual basis for Menzies Aviation, which provides baggage handling at the airport for easyJet and other airlines.

He is believed to have worked there during peak periods over the past two years and would have had access to secure areas of the site.

The Muslim, who is in his early 20s, is said to have once joked he was the nephew of Osama bin Laden and was also allegedly questioned over pictures of passenger jets.

He told officers he was interested in planes and no further action was taken.

John Menzies plc said he had passed all criminal and security checks but that his job would now be reviewed in light of his involvement in the protest on Tuesday.

‘All employees are subject to a five year criminal record check and airport authority checks before they can be given an airside pass to work on the airport, ‘ a spokesman said.

‘Jalal Ahmed passed these checks. We are now working with the airport authority to review the current position.’

The company insisted Ahmed would have been supervised at all times as he worked at the airport, where he is not a full-time employee.

Luton Borough Council, which owns the airport, said: ‘The Council has been assured that all employees at the Airport receive criminal record and security checks. We are unable to comment on individuals.

‘The issue of security is taken very seriously by the Council and the Airport Company.’

Budget airline easyJet, which is the main operator at Luton, made it clear Ahmed was not employed directly by them.

A spokesman said: ‘We are obviously working with his employers. We are working with Special Branch and we are aware his airside pass has been temporarily suspended.’

Update:  Also from the Britain is a Lost Cause department:

Britain on Thursday approved the visit to the country of Hizbullah official Ibrahim Moussawi to address a seminar on political Islam at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

The March 25 trip will mark the first official visit of a Hizbullah representative to the UK since the European boycott of the guerrilla group was lifted in 2005.

Conservative think tank, The Center for Social Cohesion (CSC), wrote to Home Secretary Jaqui Smith to protest the decision, and said it would instruct lawyers to seek an arrest warrant for Moussawi if he is allowed into the country.

CSC director Douglas Murray said the Home Office should apply its policy of banning entry to those who “stir up tension and provoke others to violence,” which was recently used to bar the Dutch lawmaker and Islam critic Geert Wilders.

Murray expressed concern that the government “finds it acceptable that an individual who incites hatred against the Jewish people and of Israelis should be permitted to enter.”

CSC researcher Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens called Moussawi “a member of a terrorist group that is ideologically devoted to the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews worldwide; a group which murders political opponents as a matter of policy and terrorizes members of the Lebanese population who dare to defy them.”

The decision to approve Moussawi’s entry comes a week after Bill Rammell, the Foreign Office minister for the Middle East, told the British Parliament that his government would hold discussions with Hizbullah’s political wing.

Rammell said that decision was made “in the light of more positive developments in Lebanon, and the formation of the national unity government in which Hizbullah is participating.”

Heck, watch it anyway.

(hat tip: The Nose On Your Face)

Meanwhile, it looks like the accused hired Lionel Hutz as his defense lawyer.

“It’s not an issue in this case,” said Harrington, who described the burly businessman as almost in shock.

“He has an almost blunted affect. He’s having difficulty coping with this,” the lawyer said.