Airport Security: Let's Profile Muslims
In the wake of yet another Muslim terror plot, we can't ignore the threat profile any longer—or the solution.

by Asra Q. Nomani
Daily Beast
November 29, 2010

http://www.islamist-watch.org/5717/airport-security-let-profile-muslims

Excerpt:

For all those holiday travelers negotiating the Transportation Security Administration's new cop-a-feel strategy, there is a difficult solution we need to consider: racial and religious profiling.

As an American Muslim, I've come to recognize, sadly, that there is one common denominator defining those who've got their eyes trained on U.S. targets: MANY of them are Muslim—like the Somali-born teenager arrested Friday night for a reported plot to detonate a car bomb at a packed Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, Oregon.

We have to talk about the taboo topic of profiling because terrorism experts are increasingly recognizing that religious ideology makes terrorist organizations and terrorists more likely to commit heinous crimes against civilians, such as blowing an airliner out of the sky. Certainly, it's not an easy or comfortable conversation but it's one, I believe, we must have.

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