Racial Profiling For Terrorists is Racism


Former FBI agent Mike German counters the argument that racial profiling is a useful tool to combat terrorism because “everyone knows that the terrorists who are trying to kill us are Muslim men.”

But a quick look at population statistics shows that racial profiling will likely be just as unproductive as random searches. The tragic shooting of a Brazilian electrician who was mistaken for an Arab terrorist by British undercover policemen demonstrates the difficulty of identifying race by merely looking at someone. But even if police here in the United States could be trained to properly identify Arab Americans on sight, only about 1 in 4 would actually turn out to be Muslim. The vast majority -- 63 percent, according to a 2002 Zogby poll, are Christian. So much for the clash of civilizations.

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Posted: Fri - October 7, 2005 at 12:11 AM          

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