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Suspicious Photo Taking "Middle Eastern" Men Turn Out To Be Visually Impaired Tourists (boingboing.net)
submitted by Southpaw5000
_Spherical_Cow_ 1 points 7y ago
Visually impaired terrorists should be treated the same as other terrorists in my opinion.
Southpaw5000 [OP] 3 points 7y ago
Yeah nobody in this story is a terrorists. I can't imagine that a visually impaired person would be much good at that anyway.
Unuhi 1 points 7y ago
We could hide in plain sight.
While not whipping out an iphone to use blindsquare and knfbreader or other similar terrorist apps if we look "ethnic".
geoffisblind 3 points 7y ago
Just to clarify the article makes it very clear that these people are not terrorists, but instead visitors to Canada receiving medical treatment from Manchester, England who were likely racially profiled. The father gave a camera to his son who is visually impaired so that he could go back and view the trip, likely with a monitor that would allow him to see what he may have missed in the moment. There is no terrorist activity here.

 

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> One of the men, Mohammed Sharaz, was shocked to recognise himself, his son, and a friend in the photos. The three men are from Manchester, England, and had travelled to Canada for medical treatment. Sharaz's son and his friend have visual impairments. Sharaz had given his son a camera he could use on their trip to Canada to help remember the journey, while their friend has a visual disability that means he can't see things straight on (which sounds like macular degeneration, though the article doesn't specify it), so he takes photos of things and looks at them to get a better sense of what he's seeing.
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