[John H K]

There's been a very long history of people being incorrectly identified as "Middle Eastern" when they weren't, in various terrorism scares (and even actual events, like the Shoe Bomber) since 9/11.

Eastern Indians, Hispanics, even half-Jamaicans. Truth is it's a hell of a lot harder to tell visually than people would like to pretend.

And actually a Pakistani isn't "Middle Eastern" they're South Asian. Pakistan isn't in the Middle East.

[concerned about politics]

Eastern Indians, Hispanics, even half-Jamaicans. Truth is it's a hell of a lot harder to tell visually than people would like to pretend.

Yeh, really. I guess that rules out racial profiling. "Be on the look out for....for.....somebody."