Posted on 12/09/2015 1:42:36 PM PST by Kaslin
Months ago, a concerned American at a school in Texas spotted a 14-year-old Muslim boy toting around a contraption that looked very much like a bomb. That Texan called the police, who came and detained the boy; after learning that the boy's device was actually a disassembled clock, they released him.
Weeks ago, a concerned American in San Bernardino spotted a "half-dozen Middle Eastern men" in the area of an apartment housing Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik. He didn't know what they were doing there, but they seemed suspicious. He didn't call the cops.
In San Bernardino, of course, that political correctness ended in the death of 14 Americans and the wounding of 21 more. In Texas, that failure to bow to political correctness ended in the attorney general of the United States vowing to track down and investigate the local police department.
Welcome to politically correct America, where you are damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Political correctness costs lives. It doesn't merely require us to abide by the strictures of an arbitrary linguistic code. It isn't just an irritation. It means that we're all supposed to frontally lobotomize ourselves to basic realities. We're supposed to pretend that there's nothing more suspicious about a half-dozen Middle Eastern males coming and going at odd hours from an apartment with a small child than there would be if a half-dozen white males did the same thing. We're supposed to cave to the fantasy that a religious Muslim reaching out to terrorists over the internet poses no more threat than a Christian visiting a pro-life website. We're supposed to blind ourselves in order to avoid the obvious.
That costs lives.
Now, this doesn't mean that we ought to discriminate against individual Muslims, of course. But it does mean that law enforcement ought to look at indicators of possible terrorist connections, and that one preliminary indicator is religious practice of Islam. That indicator isn't sufficient to determine connection to terrorism -- far from it. No single indicator generally is. But behavioral profiling involves investigating a variety of factors. As Daniel Wagner, CEO of Risk Solutions, writes about Israel's profiling techniques, "Departing passengers [at Ben Gurion Airport] are questioned by highly trained security agents before they reach the check-in counter. These interviews could last as little as one minute or as long as an hour, based on such factors as age, race, religion and destination."
Ignoring any of these factors represents incompetence.
But the president wants to use the force of law to enshrine incompetence. He suggests that to assess risk differently based on religious observance is somehow a violation of basic American principles, rather than a time-tested technique of all human relations. We obviously must remain on guard for baseless bias and persecution without evidence. But we can't ignore the realities of risk assessment in the name of cultural sensitivity, either.
That's how we end up with the utter stupidity of an MSNBC host suggesting that media stop showing pictures of the San Bernardino female shooter so as not to link her hijab-clad visage with Islam. That's how we end up with Obama suggesting that our own Islamophobia causes terrorism, rather than radical Islam. Most importantly, that's how we end up with more dead Americans.
islam isn’t a religion, it’s a death cult.
Islam is a form of government that also serves as a religion.
If one objectively read the quran then the answer is a very definitive YES!
Pofiling Islam is profiling a vile cult that puts Hitler to shame...and...oh yes...the slime even backed the Nazis.
As such, it is not religious profiling.
I just read that the terrorist inspects school kitchens. I bet his next target, or his original target, was to be a school. He had photos of one school on his phone.
My son is in a school only 30 mins away from San Bernardino; I’m wondering who his school’s inspectors are. And, yes, ARE THEY MUSLIM? What am I, stupid? Jihad is done by Muslims.
Profiling is not a bad thing: if I were searching for a lost beagle, I wouldn’t grab every grate Dane I saw.
Listen, if there are other state employees out there who are jihadi, and one shoots up a school full of children like Beslan, HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL STILL SAY PROFILING IS RACIST? Jihadis could make Sandy Hook look like a happy school day.
Islam is not a religion, it is an ideology. Drives me crazy that no one gets that and no one, even rational thinking talking heads, will say it. IDEOLOGY.
If the religion is stupid, benighted and violent...yes.
Only religions that don’t employ the Golden Rule.
“Israel profiles. That is why their airlines are the safest in the world.”
BUMP!
His job was to drop in to inspect local restaurants and other food preparation entities for dirt or unsafe temperatures.
Nice work, nice salary.
Immigrants are going to snap up all government jobs in the future because of political correctiveness, affirmative action and "equal opportunity", mark my words. Actually, they already are.
Also in the future, evil, white, American-born Christian men will be working two jobs a day to make ends meet...both of them at low hourly pay with no benefits. Little chance to no chance for them to get lucrative government positions.
You can make book on this, also.
Leni
“Also in the future, evil, white, American-born Christian men will be working two jobs a day to make ends meet...”
Men will have to become men again. It may mean leaving this once-great country, but ultimately it will be good. Christian men built the west in adversity and only adversity makes men. Governments will fall, but God will prevail. Christianity was never gained by getting a secure government position.
It seems to me that the left has been profiling white conservative Christians for years. Including the IRS.
Heard on the radio 2 days ago we are sending back 16 (IIRC) Syrian Christian refugees. Denied asylum.
They are actually Iraqi Chaldean Christians.
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