ethnic muslim profiling the key to security

JANUARY 9, 2010.Groups Say Screening Invites Bias .ArticleComments (61)more in By MELANIE TROTTMAN
Twenty-seven organizations on Friday asked the Department of Homeland Security to change newly tightened airport-security rules that they say will result in racial and ethnic profiling.

In a letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, the groups -- about half representing Muslim Americans -- criticized a new policy that requires extra screening for people traveling to the U.S. from or through 14 countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism or countries "of interest."

The terror-sponsor list includes Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria, while the countries of interest include Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen.

The groups said in the letter that with the exception of Cuba, the directive targets individuals traveling from Muslim-majority or Middle Eastern countries with no regard as to whether the passenger poses an individualized threat.

The groups also said the extra screening diverts attention and resources from legitimate leads and suspicious behavior.

"All of us are concerned about the security of our nation. However, security policies based on ethnic and religious profiling are both ineffective and contrary to constitutional principles. Terrorism is neither ethnically nor geographically confined," the letter reads."


Total NONSENSE. 99.9% of the FBI's wanted terrorists are Muslims!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only thing that makles sense is profiling if we want to be safe