Originally Posted by Bart

Here's the problem with profiling: it's filled with erroneous assumptions based on physical appearance.

Want to profile "Middle Eastern" looking people? What about hispanics, Italians or the wide variety of other ethnicities whose skin is dark, hair is black but ethnicity may be German, British, Canadian or Russian? These people may look "Middle Eastern." The flip side of that is that not everyone from the Middle East is dark skinned or has black hair. There are a fair number of blonde, blue-eyed and fair skinned Middle Eastern people.

Want to profile Muslims? Tall order. Its religious influence is world wide and there are Asians, Africans, Europeans, Americans and people from all sorts of cultures and societies throughout the globe who are devout Muslims.

Racial and ethnic profiling is dumb.