Profiling people by age, race, ethnicity and sex is a perfectly legitimate law enforcement and investigative activity. If male Muslims between the ages of, say, 20 and 40 are the terrorists that that have caused the damage and destruction of property in this country and abroad and the murder of innocent people, police would be stupid not to watch people who fit this profile. Of course profiling can be overdone, but I want the people responsible for protecting me and our citizenry to use every technique at their disposal.
There is no room for 'Political Correctness' in this debate. If profiling is abused, correct the abusers, otherwise continue the use of profiling to combat terrorism, crime and attempts to undermine our way of life. Statements like this are nonsense: "The disgraceful terror attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was a colossal tragedy for Americans. If Muslims are profiled solely because they are Muslim this will only add to the tragedy.
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