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But then again, we may as well just interview ALL MUSLIMS.

Sorry, but there are 5 million Muslims here. Then there are Black Muslims. Then there are Christian Palestinians. Then there are nut cases. And don't forget the IRA and colombian narcoterrorists.

The chance of (say) a secular Iranian Pediatrician being a terrorist is probably low.

And the wholesale questioning of one's patriotism due to profiling causes resentment that could last for years. One of our family stories is my grandfather being picked up and interrogated as a spy during World War I: A neighbor reported him for singing German songs. We remember this 90 years later, with a resentful laugh. He was a good American. So excuse me if I don't think a person should be judged by his group.

Now, if you want to do routine policework to check on small political groups, fine. You want to bug mosques? Fine. They did this to some Prolife groups. Caused bad blood, but probably necessary. But don't lable all Catholics and prolife Christians as terrorists because a few nut cases kill abortion doctors. (statistically it comes to one abortiondoctor murderer per 20 million prolife people) any more than a having 200 possible jihadists amongh 5 million Muslims make all them guilty.

"But don't lable all Catholics and prolife Christians as terrorists because a few nut cases kill abortion doctors. (statistically it comes to one abortiondoctor murderer per 20 million prolife people) any more than a having 200 possible jihadists amongh 5 million Muslims make all them guilty."

I'm sorry I don't share in the validity of your statistics.

The day a pro-life "nutcase" and his "pro-life" organization is found to have plotted and conspired against the wholesale slaughter of thousands of people of the United States of America -- as has Islam -- is THE day your ill-founded analogy works.

Furthermore, no one can deny that as long as there is an Islamic presense, this threat will remain in America ad infinitim.

"American" Islam lies in the reeds like a cobra biding its time.

I have to disagree with you.

Too many "middle class" Arabs have become radicalized. Too many doctors, professors, etc. now spew Osama-isms. We have to treat these people, if they have radical Islamist sympathies, like we did Nazis and Communists - yank their visas and revoke citizenship if we must.

Atta had a high quality university education. The illiterate foaming at the mouth ones LOOK scarier, but in practice they could terrorize a few goats.