Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/26/2012

The creator of a well-known British cartoon character made a little mistake when he went through security before boarding a flight at Gatwick Airport. As a response to seeing a fully-veiled Muslima being passed through screening without showing her face, he joked to a nearby security officer, “If I was wearing this scarf over my face, I wonder what would happen.”

Well, you can imagine what happened next. He was confronted by officials and the police were called and he was detained for an hour for questioning, thoroughly ruining his trip.

In other news, the European Central Bank is printing money easing liquidity again in response to the continuing sluggishness of the economy and in anticipation of a credit crunch.

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