Posted on 08/17/2006 7:50:54 PM PDT by theothercheek
Columnist Kathleen Parker demolishes the usual lib arguments against profiling to zero in on the most likely perpetrators of terrorism:
In the wake of last week's foiled terrorist plot to blow up 10 U.S. jetliners flying between Britain and the United States, sensible people are reconsidering our government's stubborn opposition to profiling. ...
Most terrorist acts of the past several decades have been perpetrated by Muslim men between the ages of 17 and 40. A complete list would fill this space, but following is a partial Islamic terrorist resume:
Eleven Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics (1972); U.S. Marine barracks blown up in Beirut (1983), Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacked and elderly, disabled American passenger killed (1985); TWA Flight 847 hijacked (1985); Pan Am Flight 103 bombed (1988); World Trade Center bombed (1993); U.S. embassies bombed in Kenya and Tanzania (1998); USS Cole bombed (2000); Sept. 11, 2001; Madrid and London train bombings (2004 and 2005). ...
Critics of profiling insist that focusing on one group will distract us from other possible terrorists - presumably all those Baptist grandmothers recently converted to Islam. They also invariably point to Timothy McVeigh, our own homegrown terrorist who blew up a federal office building in Oklahoma City. As if one white-bred misfit – or the occasional Caucasian Muslim – cancels out 35 years of Middle Eastern terrorists invoking Muhammad. ...
Profiling isn't aimed at demonizing Muslims; it's aimed at saving lives, including Muslims.
The Stiletto thinks this piece should be required reading for our friends at the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who turn a blind eye to the omnipresent danger of Muslim terrorism while seeing anti-Muslim bias everywhere they look
(Excerpt) Read more at thestilettoblog.com ...
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