How do you profile a religion?
The jihadists are quite willing to use pregnant women or old women - and their prime candidates for attacks are whites who converted.
Profiling is getting harder to do. The little old lady boarding the plane may have had her grandson help her with her bags - her white grandson who recently converted to Islam and doesn't mind blowing up grandma to strike a blow for jihad.
El Al has it right. Singapore Airlines has it right. ANA has it right. Cathay Pacific has it right.
Course, they do not have domestic political correctness-run rampant 'sensitivities' to cater to like we do, and which has taken our freedoms away and replaced it with sheer lack of common sense.
But complete randomness in searches makes no sense at all. One of the guys from my reserve unit works as an air marshall and he told me that TSA deliberately 'profiles' people who do not appear to be terrorists in order to avoid the appearance of profiling. It's crazy.
Our gov't is so p.c. that they won't do their primary job, which is to protect their citizens from external attack.
Your're right - it is hard to profile some of them. However, the vast majority DO look very middle-eastern. I think we can target certain traits - middle-eastern looks, where they got their passport - and face it, the UK will have to be a red flag for sure - and their accents, etc. We can't be perfect but we can sure rule out a host of them. If they need 2 or 3 of them on a plane to carry out their scheme, they better all look like Mr. Preppie. If I were the security person, I bet I could do a very good job. I'm very observant and detail oriented. We have a lot of them here and their blue eyes don't fool me.