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hangfour wrote:

Now at an airport, the only thing that makes you suspicious is your race? I disagree with this, race is not enough of a basis to profile someone as a threat, there are so many more factors than race that they should be paying attention to.

What? There are Caucasian Muslims, Chinese Muslims (about 20 million of them), Indonesian Muslims (202 million), Indian Muslims ... I could go on and on. Perhaps the poster meant Arabs (not Muslims) as only a small percentage of Muslims are Arabs.

My bad I miss spoke, I was multi tasking... not very well apparently. All I meant was that there are very few things that by themselves should make a person a potential threat, like waving a weapon around. Being a member of a certain religion, race or sex shouldn't qualify a person as a potential threat by its self.

hangfour wrote:m a Muslim and I don't see how it tramples on anyone's rights to be singled out for a search if it protects life. All of us profile ... I profile when I'm walking in 'certain neighborhoods' and I see four or five young men dressed in hoodies displaying gang colors ... I move to 'orange' alert especially since I have a CHL. Is this wrong?

I firmly believe profiling is useful and we all do it even if we don't think about it, I think the difference comes in how we use it and how well we use it. In your situation you are in a bad neighborhood, there is a group, they are wearing hoodies, and have gang colors, in this situation I believe you successfully profiled a potential threat. Now at an airport, the only thing that makes you suspicious is your race? I disagree with this, race is not enough of a basis to profile someone as a threat, there are so many more factors than race that they should be paying attention to.