Instapendent

A leading US Muslim group said it was disturbed by reports that US authorities were racially profiling passengers at New York’s Kennedy airport.

If this is true:

(a) It is about time. Why would you not racially profile? Anything that statistically increases your odds of preventing terrorism without increasing your costs or violating the constitution should be done. Now we can get into some serious arguments about whether any of these searches are constitutional, but that is another debate.

(b) Since when is Islam a race? Why the hell are muslims in an uproar? I think it would be pretty hard to profile a religion. Aren’t they sterotyping themselves by insinuating that all muslims are Arab? That is ignorant of the fact that most muslims are not Arabic.

I guess these were points that were too complex for this reporter to address in his in-depth article.