EXTRA! EXTRA!
The Brits are entertaining a move toward a little common sense.
Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown
| The Government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk.
The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people who are behaving suspiciously, have an unusual travel pattern or, most controversially, have a certain ethnic or religious background. The system would be much more sophisticated than simply picking out young men of Asian appearance. But it would cause outrage in the Muslim community because its members would be far more likely to be selected for extra checks. |
Outrage in the Muslim community. Oh boy.
Well, we’ll see if there’s political spine over there.
Meanwhile, how about some outrage in the Muslim community over somebody else’s racial and religious profiling.
Whose profiling might that be?
Those who plan and set out to execute suicide and homicide missions.
UPDATE I — 7:25 am, Pacific Time
Top Muslim policeman slams UK “terror profile” plan
| Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Ali Desai, one of Britain’s top Muslim police officers, said of the plan: “What you are suggesting is that we should have a new offence in this country called ‘traveling whilst Asian’.”
“What we don’t want to do is actually alienate the very communities who are going to help us catch terrorists,” he told BBC Newsnight on Monday. Muhammad Abdul Bari, general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, was eager to dispel a siege mentality, saying “If you treat a community as a problem community, you are not going to get support from them.” Asked what he thought passenger profiling might provoke, he told Sky News: “It could end up in racism unfortunately.” “If the profiling is done on the basis of race and religion, it will be wrong, it is not going to work.” |