Posted on 12/28/2004 2:03:06 PM PST by CHARLITE
For years, it has been my position that the threat of radical Islam implies an imperative to focus security measures on Muslims. If searching for rapists, one looks only at the male population. Similarly, if searching for Islamists (adherents of radical Islam), one looks at the Muslim population.
And so, I was encouraged by a just-released Cornell University opinion survey that finds nearly half the U.S. population agreeing with this proposition. Specifically, 44 percent of Americans believe that government authorities should direct special attention toward Muslims living in the United States, either by registering their whereabouts, profiling them, monitoring their mosques, or infiltrating their organizations.
Also encouraging, the survey finds the more a person follows television news, the more likely he supports these common-sense steps. Those who are best informed about current issues, in other words, are also the most sensible about adopting self-evident defensive measures.
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Too late, Congress already did that....
Racial profiling makes perfect sense here. And PLEASE liberal, dont wrap yourself in the flag when you cry CIVIL RIGHTS!
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer-Don Corleone
Oh, and Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichol, too.
Terrorists may be a lot of things, but "stupid" usually isn't one of them. The use of "profiling" may sound like a good idea, but all it really does is eliminate a substantial number of potential suspects from the radar screen.
And use their religion as the reason for punishing them.
Consider it "reaching out" to liberals.
I agree that profiling "Middle Easterners as a matter of course, they'd overlook people such as Johnny Lindh, the D.C. snipers, that Adam Whats-His-Name from California who is now an al-Qaeda operative, etc." is inneffective.
One should instead profile MUSLIMS, especially CONVERTS to islam like the idiots above.
It is clear that our sensitivity to our minorities have made these Muslim citizens bold, and expecting their "CIVIL RIGHTS" without delivering their citizen duties to their adopted country. It is only fair that these people should be sent back to their country of origin, and that we should STOP visas to ALL Muslims from anywhere.
Once the dust settles, and the mullahs start to preach peaceful coexistence. Once countries like Saudi Arabia, and Iran starts to allow us to build churches in their countries. Once the Muslim media stop calling us the big Satan. Once the Muslim/non-Muslim intellectuals become free to criticize Islam on their TV as our intellectuals criticize Christianity without death threats. Once their people can convert to Christianity without fearing "GOVERNMENT" persecution. THEN, and only then we should allow free flow of their barbaric cult into our nation. Only then we will have freedom of religion as it was intended to mean. Right now Muslim nations are spending "Billions" of dollars proselytizing Islam in the West, and building Mosques as they deny same to the West.
read post 10
What is an American citizen, or what constitutes an American citizen?
When does one lose their American citizenship or can they?
Please read post 10. The consitution did not intend for us to respect others as they insult us.
I'll take a comment I read on a similar thread and expand it a bit . . . A government that disarms its citizenry as a matter of course and can't even control our nation's southern border has no business "profiling" anyone.
No problem here. I am not that polite and don't really care if I hurt the feelings of the terrorists and their symapathizers at the ACLU.
Lets just call it "criminal profiling," profile the Muslims, and be done with it.
"How is the U.S. government supposed to keep track of all converts to Islam?"
Well, I would start with: (1) the phone list of the mosques; (2) anyone who took a tax deduction for giving to a muslim charity (and/or their contributor lists); and (3) running the plates of the cars in the mosque parking lots.
Sure, you might miss a few, but that would be a start.
Indeed, since one is hunting Zelots (no pun intended) and not two-percenters, I would suspect that they would go to the mosque a lot, making the job pretty easy.
"It is clear that our sensitivity to our minorities have made these Muslim citizens bold, and expecting their "CIVIL RIGHTS" without delivering their citizen duties to their adopted country. It is only fair that these people should be sent back to their country of origin, and that we should STOP visas to ALL Muslims from anywhere."
Char
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