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2006-08-17 Britain

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Posted by ed 2006-08-17 07:42|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Muslims are not an ethnic group and come from many different backgrounds including from the black community and increasingly from the white community," said Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain.

"There is concern that such profiling would perhaps only contribute to further alienating a group whose close cooperation is essential in countering terror."

That's the dude that emailed death threats to Charles Johnson of LGF, something about slicing a throat. So, the rational thing would be to do just the opposite what this POS recommends.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-08-17 07:56|| 2006-08-17 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2
One's religion and one's ethnicity alone don't determine a terrorist, but should be considered as important aspects of overall profiling. Such imperative factors can not be ignored due to the obvious relevance they have in identifying terrorists (in spite of protestations from the minority groups in question who feel victimized).

Marketing researches companies profile and target consumers, for commercial reasons, and make lot of money because the techniques work. The same principles can be applied to terrorists.

A Palestinian born Muslim, for example, should draw more attention when checking onto a flight by virtue of situational association with conflict. Not even Gandhi would be impartial having been spawned from such a background.

Religious and cultural profiling makes complete sense.

Posted by Craick Threasing5857 2006-08-17 08:53|| 2006-08-17 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 True, not all muzzies are terrorists, but all terrorists are muzzies.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-17 09:09|| 2006-08-17 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Tell that to the people of Sri Lanka, Nimble.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-08-17 09:11|| 2006-08-17 09:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Close enough for government work.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-17 09:18|| 2006-08-17 09:18|| Front Page Top

#6 If 100% of Muzzies are not just profiled but strip searched , harassed, detained ,etc. we will have contained 100% of the terrorists.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-17 11:02|| 2006-08-17 11:02|| Front Page Top

#7 "Religious and cultural profiling makes complete sense"

Naturally when only one 'religion' today has the likes of unending jihad as its central pillar and a whole herd behind it to variously support that ideology of murder.

Posted by Duh! 2006-08-17 11:57|| 2006-08-17 11:57|| Front Page Top

#8 "That's unpalatable to everyone. It is communities that defeat terrorism..."

I dont profess to be a mind reader. But Im willing to bet that if even the most diversity minded ACLU member was waiting in line to board an airplane next to someone who visually fit the most common profile of a terrorist I could figure out what they were thinking. The same thing everyone else is thinking. (That includes people that fit the profile themselves)

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-08-17 12:32|| 2006-08-17 12:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Better be unpaleatable to everyone than for everyone to be dead. One particular community predictably spawns terrorists and we have to pretend this isn't so? Paleatable dead hypocrites is the current fashion?

Posted by Duh! 2006-08-17 14:52|| 2006-08-17 14:52|| Front Page Top

#10 "Any measures introduced have got to be intelligence-led and not beard-led," said Shahid Malik, a lawmaker with the governing Labour Party.

Fine, fine ... women with beards may be excluded.

Let's just say that such profiling can be halted when one religion is no longer responsible for 99% of the world's major terrorist atrocities. You'd think the so-called Moderate Muslims would welcome such profiling in order that a majority of terrorists could be apprehended and thereby have their ever-so-benign Religion of Peace [spit] be purged of its violent adherents. Wait, I think they're trying to respond about this. What's that they're saying?

[crickets]

Nevermind.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-17 19:00|| 2006-08-17 19:00|| Front Page Top

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