big4life said:
What does a Muslim look like?
All Middle Eastern men with beards are not Muslims, and all Muslims are not Middle Eastern.
great point along with ryans and nordstroms
what do you consider muslim? lots of israeli's may be considered muslim. one lost his life when mobs killed him becasue they thought he as muslim.....
so what qualifies as muslim? anyone with brown skin? there are hundreds iof thousands, even millions of brown christians, jews, hindu's and lord knows what else out there....are you gonna screen them too? what happens when ethnic minorities have their backgrounds checked and arent muslim? should their consitituional rights be impinged upon? do they have MORE constitutional rights than muslims? How do we identify a muslim, should they carry cards and wear a sign on their arm saying they are muslim?
what nationalilty was richard reid? british. what ethnicity - mixed race, part black part white i think. one of your own white citizens was fighting for the taliban. should we screen blacks too? you wanna even TRY and get that passed in america....most black americans couldnt give a shit about racial profiling as a recent poll showed, wanna see how that changes when they are at the brunt of it. What about whites? How many black muslims do you have in the US currently? how many are militant.....
terrorists arent that stupid. they will modify their recruitment to get past profiling. they wil use women, maybe even elderly women. is a 70 yr old women being subjected to screening any different based on her faith?
if someone was able to provide statistical evidence that racial screening MAY reduce fatalities significantly and cost effectivly then it may be worth considering. has anyone even done these analysis yet?
meanwhile as nordstrom pointed out US foreign policy is still being avoided, when israel is still an issue, pakistan (a dictatorship) is being supported and countries such as iran and north korea are being grouped with iraq.