News Airport Security: Should Muslims be profiled?

i think yah....i hate them killers

yeah in order to save thousands of lives...yeah...

Why should they profile a certain race just because of the war? Im not muslim and my nationality has had alot of tension between muslim people. I think they should just beef up the security alot more than to just profile one group. Next thing you know, the terrorists will have their skin color changed just like micheal jackson lol. What will you do then? Oh just another white guy, let him through and make sure he doesnt get hassled.

Everybody's gonna get hassled...just more attention to others....

Very sticky question. Should airport security concentrate on Muslims? One problem is how to separate Muslims from others (can't just profile middle eastern people, which would be easiest, Muslims are spread over many races). If you did, end up with the racial segregation hat happened in II again (remember all the Japanese decendants being locked up during the war, how come they didn't do that with other Axis powers, Germans and Italians??) Profiling any one race/religion will open up a whole can or worms and may be entirely ineffective.

Very easy to pick out a race and blame them - humanity in general are inherently prejudice of other races, up to each individual to buildup his/her understanding and tolerance of other races. Thing that people have to grasp is that terrorism is not bound by just race or religion or particular theater (area of war). How far should be go to protect this country? How far is enough, too little or too much?

No, cause you never know who is gonna do the next dumb thing. But then in some way they do it a little. Every time I go to a airport I get profiled cause I look arabic.

I will not disagree that most terrorist groups are muslim but still. I know alot of Africans (not African Americans but real Africans) that are muslim. They come to our restaurant (most of them are taxi drivers) and they are pretty nice people. It is kind of hard to explain but I still do not think that muslims should be profiled. I think everyone should have to go through a strict security process. There are other terrorist groups around the world that hate America. It always has happened and always will happen. You just cant be safe anymore.

Lol, you just made vvt-i feel like homework.

I saw something about a group of (I want to say british) special troops that work air ports that don't look at the persons race when determining a person of interest, so to speak. They spend more time studying individual mannerisms of the flyers in the air port. They look for things like people looking down trying not to draw attention to themselves while most people stare up at the boards for flight info. Just little things that would seperate the avg. flyer from some one who could ligitametly be a terrorist.

I like the approach of those soldiers, but I wonder just how acurate that is. However, the same question of accuracy can be addressed with regards to racial profiling.

I say if a profile works, use it. Seeking out and searching individuals who appear to be muslim or arabic seems like discrimination. This may very well be. The bottom line is if the profile works (meaning there is a significant percentage of people profiled who turn out to be danerous) it should be used.

I say no. I don't like being profiled and I think its unfair for others to deal with it as well. Plain n simple. You can't profile because its not only the muslims that have animosity to americans, and I like what fishexpo said bout you don't kno who's gonna do the next dumb thing. After 9/11, a white kid took a cessna airplane and crashed it into a building in Florida..prime example (cuz its the only example I can think of right now since its 7:47am, lol). In my nursing classes, they always reiterate that "you must never be focused on any one single detail because doing so will prevent you from seeing the big picture". Altho Muslims have set themselves a bad reputation with Americans, they still need to be treated like people. I mean I hate it when people come to conclusions because im asian. I think that shows ignorance. (I hate it when people think that Asians come from a certain country...didn't we learn that Asia is a continent and not a country, lol, therefore the term Asian is a generalization for a cluster of races) Yet, we all come to these conclusions anyway, people think Middle Easterners n conclude that they own a gas station or some kinda business, Asian and you own a nail shop, Black and you eat chicken, Mexican and you build my house, whatever, yet it seems out of the ordinary to anyone to go to the doctors office and see that your doctor is Mexican cuz usually thats reserved for Asians and Middle Easterners and White who have rich families. See, we can come to conclusions everyday but its not gonna help the situation, even in a time of such chaos. They already have the patriot act, no need to infiltrate on any more public decencies. There are plenty of Muslims that I kno of that are very very successful and prosperous and just want to live a relaxing life and im sure they dont appreciate being hassled. Just because of their appearance and religious orientation, should not mean they should be treated any differently than any christian, catholic, mormon, etc...

Sure.... Profile away!