Re: Giving up “Rights” for safety?
Racial profiling breeds complacency.
Richard Reid was white in appearance, not South Asian.
One of the accused alleged London bombers was black in appearance, not South Asian. In fact, the accused alleged 21st July bombers were predominantly Somali.
Israel began racial profiling to try and stop arab bombers, and they simply switched to appearing Jewish.
If you are going to go around accusing Muslims of being behind terrorism, then you must alse acknowledge the fact that Islam is a belief, not a race or appearance. If you’re going to go around accusing Muslims of being behind terrorism, then you will need to face the fact that you cannot look at someone and tell if he or she is Muslim because there are Muslims that look just like you.
Racial profiling serves just one purpose: empowering racists.
And people who advocate racial profiling are just racists who haven’t admitted it yet.
As much as I repeatedly point out that the USA’s founding father were traitors to their King and Country, one of them, Benjamin Franklin, made an extremely good point that all countries of the world should remember always.
“They that can give up essential liberties to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”.