If a group to which I belong were blowing up innocents all over the world, I would understand that if I chose to fly, I would have to go through an hour or more of scrutiny. And boy would I turn on my fellow California blondes for putting me up to it, not on the societies that are just trying to stay alive!! Get a clue, good Muslims!
Now there is a group that gets "profiled" all the time.
I am Catholic. If the IRA were blowing up packed trains and flying airliners into buildings in the name of my religion, not only would I be denouncing them in the streets at the top of my lungs, I'd be forming a Catholic Patriotic League or something and insisting that the Feds single out "my kind" for extra attention at airports, train stations, etc. I would act as a spy in my parish, and would report anything I heard that sounded even remotely sympathetic to the IRA to the FBI. I would raise money to publish advertisements in major media letting the public know in no uncertain terms that Catholic Americans are FOR America and AGAINST the IRA. If it came right down to it, I'd even go peacefully to a concentration camp if that were the only way to neutralize fifth columnists, spies, and fellow-travelers among the population.
What I'm trying to say is that as a Catholic and and American, my highest allegiance is to my family and the U.S.A -- I acknowledge only Jesus Christ and his mother ahead of my family and my country. And I daresay you'd be hard-pressed to find any American Catholic (or American Lutheran, Mennonite, Jew, or Mormon) who doesn't feel the same.
My question is: how many American Muslims have the same priorities?