Originally Posted by
YOWguy
I was thinking along the same lines... the TSA can't even successfully carry out the basics of their job, so they've created a thousand other ways to try and divert our attention.
As for the OP, profiling based on religion etc. is the dumbest thing you could possibly do. What terrorist, knowing the new system (or even today for that matter) is going to come to an American airport dressed as in robes and tell airline and security personnel that he's a devout muslim? It's only an invitation for exactly the kind of racist attention that's advocated in that article.
Rather than assigning SSSS and performing secondary screening on American 80 year old grandmothers who do not alarm the WTMD or otherwise seem out of the ordinary, devote extra screening to males under the age of 50 who are from the Middle East or who have traveled to/from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, etc. This sort of extra screening is not profiling based on religion, but rather the most prudent use of screening resources.