Originally Posted by ClueByFour
At some point, common sense has to be employed.
I'm a blond haired, grey eyed American with an Irish background. When entering and leaving and flying about the UK (where I currently work and reside), I'm harrassed a bit more than most professionals in their late 20s and early 30s. I would assume this is because people of my demographic (Irish descent) have been known to blow things up in Britan with a greater frequency than other demographics.
You might apply this logic to the treatment of people of muslim or arab lineage in the US.
Does it suck? Sure. If the current trends hold, however, it's not a total logical fallacy.
Let's not fail to note the logic that anti-terrorism measures and other anti-criminal approaches that have a very apparent element of ethnic/racial/community profiling and/or communal punishment is more often than not followed by an increase in incidents of criminality and "criminal sympathizing" in more than one corner of the world. Is it causation or correlation? Well, that is another question and subject somewhat more to debate. However it is a logical truth that anti-terrorism measures that have resulted in innocents (perceived and/or real ones) becoming a "casualty" or a "victim" through extrajudicial means and/or institutionalized communalism boils over more than once in a blue moon.
Exclude such from the thought process and meld it with an advocacy of communalistic policies/practices that gets implemented and don't be surprised when the undercurrents are violent and getting sadly stronger while "the help" declines, disappears and then becomes counterproductive or distracting from real threats while fueling new ones.