Colleen LaRose is a blue-eyed, blonde Caucasian American woman. When the terrorists were Arab in appearance, the Wingers said we had to subject them to extra scrutiny because "that's who the terrorists were." Same went for black men after the underpants bomber last Christmas.
Notice these folks are now dead silent after the news on this case broke. Digby's pronouncement on this then holds even more true now.
If you add in Africans (as you must by this logic) that's about half of the global population right there. But then how do we know that some guy named Bob isn't a Muslim? Or that some young woman named Samira isn't a terrorist? It gets really complicated. The only profiling that will really work is to not let anyone in the US at all and to require all US citizens to wear designations on their clothes to indicate which religion they are. Anything short of that just won't get the job done.My question is this for the racial profiling of "Muslim terrorists" crowd: How do you intend to prevent the next Colleen LaRose? Do you plan to give up your civil liberties for a little safety? How many more non-Arab, non-African "terrorists" are out there waiting to get past your proposed defenses specifically because they are not dark-skinned?
It was stupid then. It's even more stupid now. Which one of the profiling advocates will call for profiling all white women on US international flights first?
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Was it ever found that this woman had any ties with any terrorist organization?
If not then maybe she's just playing on everyone's fears while acting out. I mean wouldn't you if you were going to kill a bunch of people and wanted to leave a lasting impression? It's psychological, plain and simple.
Profiling will not make us safer, honestly nothing really will. More security at the airports as if there isn't enough already..
Bottom line is Bush was right when he said "We have to be right 100 percent of the time to fight terror." and we can't always be right.
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