Quoted: Quoted: If we racially profiled people who looked likely to be Muslim and subjected everyone else to much lesser scrutiny, we'd have caught close to 100% of airline terrorists and avoid inconveniencing regular folks simultaneously. Just sayin'... Does he look Muslim? Just trying to understand...

Are you asking me if I, as a airport security, and freed of all pretenses of political correctness, would pull him aside for an extra search just for the way he looks?

Yes.



I'd have pulled off these aside too, if not for their appearance, then for their names.

I'd have given extra scrutiny to anyone who looked or sounded or had a name that sounded German or Japanese if we were at war with them, too. BFD. (For the record, I'm part German, so that might inconvenience me. I still say BFD.)

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: If we racially profiled people who looked likely to be Muslim and subjected everyone else to much lesser scrutiny, we'd have caught close to 100% of airline terrorists and avoid inconveniencing regular folks simultaneously. Just sayin'... Does he look Muslim? Just trying to understand... Are you asking me if I, as a airport security, and freed of all pretenses of political correctness, would pull him aside for an extra search just for the way he looks?

No, I'm asking you if he looks, as you said, "likely to be Muslim."