Profiling is a sign of clear thinking sanity.
Part of the leftist's crazed opposition to "profiling" is their love of and belief in "identity politics." They believe that all genuine people of any given race MUST behave a certain way. If they don't, they're "race traitors" (yes, I'm using the phrase used by white supremacists here, because there's no difference between their reaction to, say, a Justice Clarence Thomas or Governor Sara Palin - while not a traitor to her race, she's certainly a traitor to her gender, and the most virulent white supremacists.) Seriously, the reactions of leftists to just these two individuals is no different than the most virulent hate group like the aryan nations or kkk to Black people. Of course, if they're feeling guilt and try to punish themselves and others for the crimes committed by other people who look like them, they're superior to the rest of us, and "better qualified" to tell us how to lead out lives. Sorry for getting off-topic there... Anyway...
Because leftist believe that the way someone acts is simply a part of their racial identity, if you profile someone by their ACTIONS, you're committing "racial profiling." For instance, if a bouncer at a club stops a young Black man for entering, because he's got an open shirt with the words "Thug Life" tattooed on his chest, that's "racial profiling." No, that's stopping someone who's probably a gang banger from entering the club! How about if the same bouncer stopped a young white man with red laces in his Doc Martin boots, and a big tattoo of a swastika on his bicep from going in, that would be "racial profiling" as well. Again, no!
In both cases, it's stopping someone who has made some (bad) decisions and committed certain actions that make these people "persona non grata" in this hypothetical club.
When an army psychiatrist openly talks about jihad, when he has SOA (Soldier Of allah) on his business cards, when he is seen to have visited jihadi web sites, the leftists say that you can't take action based on his activities, because that would be "racial profiling" (note how they won't even try to explain how race has even the slightest thing to do with it) since these are the normal actions of a muslim.
Liberalism really is a mental disease. Unfortunately it's been directly responsible for getting hundreds of millions of people killed in the last century, and it's going to kill uncountable more in the decades to come.
Mark
True, true, and well said.