PC'ism will be the death of our nation. Ain't this a hoot..... 19 Muslims sent us a message. Muslims around the world cheered at their act. Now, white haired little old ladies are searched at airports and the feds are recruiting Muslims.
This is crazy! I'm really losing hope. Please tell me that this is a joke. Please?
It's absolutely necessary. After 9/11, the gov't was caught flat-footed, with a real scarcity of Arab and Farsi (Persian) speakers. These languages are barely taught in colleges and in virtually no high schools.
Not only do US agencies need agents with language skills, they need agents familiar with the cultures and mannerisms. If you have to go undercover in an Arab community, it makes far more sense to be of Arab and/or other Muslim ancestry (Iranian, Iraqi, Pakistani etc.)
The problem is, are the agents recruited from these communities loyal?