Tuesday, August 15, 2006

UK - Air passenger profiling

The BBC reports on Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei's objections to profiling air passengers for terrorist screenings.

Ali Dizaei, a Muslim, had this to say:

Meanwhile, a senior policeman has criticised calls for screening of passengers for likely terrorist types.

Metropolitan Police Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei said such a move could create an offence of "travelling whilst Asian".


I just watched Dizaei make the same complaint on Sky News and he cited two cases as evidence that profiling wouldn't work - Timothy McVeigh and John Walker Lindh - two Americans, how convenient.

The problem with both Dizaei's "examples" is that neither tired to blow up an airplane and in McVeigh's case, his motives and targets are completly different than Muslim terrorists.

McVeigh's beef was with the US government, mainly over gun control and what he percieved as heavy handed tactics by the government. In short, McVeigh believed the government was meddling too much in our private affairs. The government's handling of the Branch Davidian's at Waco Texas, is seen as the last straw for McVeigh. It was a combined FBI and ATF operation. The building McVeigh bombed housed both.

While Lindh was convicted of fighting with the Taleban against the Americans, there's no evidence he would have become a suicide bomber.

Profiling isn't the single solution to Muslim terror attacks on airlines. And it probably won't catch all Muslim terrorists. But it has and will catch some and one that should be used.

To the Muslims and their leftist apologists that complain about such precautions, I refer you to Lord Stevens remarks "IF YOU'RE A MUSLIM - IT'S YOUR PROBLEM". See here for more on making Muslims own their problem.

Reform Islam and stop preaching hate and intolerance and your problems will be solved.

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