The nicknames have not even been given to the Fort Dix lunatic six. It turns out that people plotting to blow up America are young male Arab/Muslims. Yeah, yeah…and water is wet, the sun rises in the East, and the Earth is round. Perhaps we can get The ACLU to acknowledge a pattern…As soon as I get a photo of the Easter Bunny riding a unicorn.
Arabs/Muslims are blowing things up. Period. They are the terrorists. No, not all Arabs and Muslims are terrorists. Yes, virtually all terrorists are Arabs and Muslims. No, Timothy McVeigh was not a Christian, and yes, liberals use him to show that “everybody does it.” A bag filled with 1000 red marbles and one blue marble is not a diverse bag. In addition, calling a red marble blue does not make it so. Richard Reid was a Muslim with a Muslim name, and referring to him as Richard Reid is an attempt to demuslify him. Cat Stevens converted to Islam and became a lunatic backing up fatwas on Salman Rushdie. He should no longer be referred to as Cat Stevens. Call him by his Muslim name.
I have spent a good part of my career working with Muslims. They were good decent people with good hearts. So what? They look like people who fit the profile of killers. They need to be profiled.
Now before the left goes berzerk (again, water is wet), profiling has been around for 1000 years. Phrenologists checked for bumps on people’s heads. Men with unkempt facial hair were suspects. Not every man with a beard is Charles Manson, but alot of men with scraggly, sinister looking beards turned out to be criminals. In the late 20th century, guys with long hair were assumed to be on drugs. Did I like being harassed for having long hair? No. My parents’ response was “don’t look like a drugged out ocker and you won’t be treated like one.”
Young people today think that noserings, bones through the face, tongue spikes, and blue hair, are normal. They are not. Try getting a job anywhere but a record store dressed as a freak of nature. Bald guys often shave their heads. Does that make them Neonazis? Of course not. Does it make them look like Neonazis? Of course.
People profile others every single day. We judge people. If we are willing to discriminate in terms of hiring, and especially with romance, why not discriminate and isolate people who resemble mad bombers?
Hurt feelings? For every person with a t-shirt that says “I did not consent to be searched,” there is another person with a t-shirt saying “I did not consent to be bombed.” Life is not fair. For me to be treated better at restaurants, I have to wear a clean shirt, and trim my goatee. People who look like Charles Manson do not get to mix with elite society at good tables. It is about raising standards.
Arab Muslims are trying to kill everyone everywhere, including other Arab Muslims. These normal Arab Muslims should embrace profiling. It saves lives, including theirs.
Norwegians are not blowing up airplanes. Neither are 80 year old retired black librarians from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Young, male Middle Easterners who worship a bastardized form of Islam are the villains. If we know a killer is located in New York, do we search California to make New yorkers feel better? No. It wastes time, which is what terrorists want. While we ask every Chasidic Jew to remove his black fedora, we do not ask Arab Muslims to remove their turbans for fear of being insensitive.
I want to make it clear that random violence against anyone is wrong. Arabs should not be the victim of hate crimes. They should not be referred to with racist slurs. However, if I am required to clean up my appearance for a job interview by not fitting a profile…or looking like the profile and not getting hired…then Arabs can handle this discomfort.
I have been profiled. I coped. I am tired of hearing about people’s feelings. Screw feelings. I want to live. The way to keep people alive is to find the people who fit the profile of the killers. Some liberals will demand we now profile Koreans because of Virginia Tech. Again, that is called an aberration, as opposed to the other 99% of the killers, where it is a normal way of life. Outside of Kim Jung Il, there are not many known Korean killers. Most people will not have the guts to admit this, but it was a shock that the Virginia Tech massacre was Asian. “Asians don’t do that,” was a common unspoken thought.
When young Arab Muslims are arrested for plotting to blow up the world at Fort Dix, no one is surprised. Decent Muslims are like “not again…why?” Non-Muslims are like “yeah, that was a surprise.” Guilty white liberals give us platitudes. Platitudes do not save lives.
Liberals will become conservatives after being mugged. It might take 11 9/11s to wake up leftists to the need to profile. Or we can continue searching Swedish grandmothers and confiscating their knitting apparel.
Young Arab Muslim males are the terrorists. Start searching them and leave me alone. My people (long haired rockers with scraggly goatees) will continue to be screened as suspects by all rich girls’ fathers. We may look like druggies, but we don’t look like genocidal bombers. Profile the men that do. Human life depends on it.
eric
Screw the feelings? That’s very insensitive and selfish of you. How dare that you would rather live while hurting someones feelings.
We both know the subject is not as simple as we would all like, BUT it is ever so slightly, kind of in a way, flippin’ stupid to ignore the various realities.
How easy is it to manipulate emotions and use them to prevent us protecting outselves….huh…kind of like what you’re saying.
They don’t use logic when emotion can do so much more
you have a goatee.
that’s so perfectly hilarious.
The only problem I have with profiling is that it can let some of the less obvious slip through. There is the problem with converts, and Bosnians, and the like. Also while rare, women can and have caught the martyr fever. (Even though one can’t help but wonder about the promised 72 virgins. What woman would be interested in the fumblings of a bunch of inexperienced boys? Ugh!)