[Dawsonville_Doc]

I don't know about cavity searches within a 100 yard radius, but I have no problem with x-rays or persons, explosives sniffing dogs at checkpoints, explosives detectors in airport trams and in airplane doorways...and special attention paid to those who would more likely be a terrorist than the caucasian woman in a wheelchair(who should also be x-ray checked...). This student now finds herself with some free time...Rush? Sean? Ann? Need a new writer?

[Dark Skies]

Sounds like a career is born.

[Dawsonville_Doc]

Ping others as you see fit...

[highlymotivated]

One of the new things in the terrorist world is "Womb Bombs"! The women pack in the explosive and without a cavity search, you ain't finding it. They can pack in enough Semtex to take down a place if they do it right. These vermin need to be expunged from the world.

[LibWhacker]

"The image of naked Arabs in a public airport is not only truly horrifying..."

Be fun if they were infidels though.

[Tax-chick]

I think her comments were disgusting and immature, quite to be expected of a 20-year-old with pretensions to "journalism." Give it a pass because you don't expect anything better of students ... but making her a heroine because she's into exposing other people to humiliation is just silly, imo.

[af_vet_1981]

All she had to was use a good editor. Substitute the word "Arab" with "suspected terrorist" and I don't see a problem with the searches.

[Dallas59]

What does she look like? < /dirtyoldman>

[King Prout]

she engaged in hyperbole to excess, but as she phrased it as her own desire/opinion, rather than a statement of fact, I am unsure there is a problem with what she said.

on the other hand... Chechnyans are often enough blonde-and-blue, and they also practice -ah!- "explosive diplomacy", so RACIAL profiling is probably not a particularly wise option.

strip-searching anyone who refuses to step on a Koran or eat a ham sandwich, otoh, might make a lot of sense.

[Inyokern]

Ann Coulter's comment that if she ever wanted physical intimacy, she would walk through airport security

Hmmm. Playing passenger and security screener with Ann Coulter. That's a fantasy I had not previously thought of.

[Prime Choice]

Now-now! Can't go and offend the Arab street y'know!

[groovychick]

This would not have been a problem for anyone if it was
derogatory of conservatives or the president.

[thoughtomator]

"I fired her because she strung together quotes out of context," wrote Coletta, 21, a senior from Cary. "She took sources' words out of context. She misled those sources when she conducted interviews."

In other words, she's perfectly qualified for a job at the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, etc. etc. etc.

[Bigh4u2]

"In retrospect, she regrets offending people she respects, she said, and she has apologized to some of them."

Stop, stop, stop this nonsense!

If you are going to write something, then STAND BY IT!

Otherwise DON'T WRITE IT!

[hardworking]

Well! There's conservative life alive and well in the twenty-something crowd. Encouraging!

[hardworking]

"The image of naked Arabs in a public airport is not only truly horrifying,

Aw, schucks. Seems like it would liven up the wait, in my humble opinion. Besides, do they wear underwear?? Just asking...

[Kenton]

"The image of naked Arabs in a public airport is not only truly horrifying,

Dear Uzma and Bushra - You weren't listening, were you?

Not IN the airport, 100 yards outside of it. Preferably in a large tent, to protect the eyes of the airline passengers who may be hurrying by.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

Is there an email address where we can send thanks and encouragement for this young lady having the courage to be a voice of reason in an environment where sanity is disdained?

[kenth]

She wrote something stupid and her employer didn't like it. Them's the breaks.

As for her idea, Islam isn't tied to ethnicity or skin color and terrorists may not be the standard Arabic stereotype; John Walker Lindh, John Mohammad, Jose Padilla, etc.

Too bad we can't come up with an Islam detector...

[Sir Gawain]

The image of naked Arabs in a public airport is not only truly horrifying

You got that right buddy.