Originally Posted by Knoppix
Most Muslims are dark-skinned. We had the KKK, they were all caucasian. Saying all dark-skinned people could be terrorists is like saying that all caucasias could rascist killers!!
I never...
never...said that "most Muslims are dark-skinned". Sorry kid, but you can't put words in my mouth. I've said from my first post in this thread that I have personal qualms about racial/ethnic "profiling", but that I feel it is a tool that had some practical application. I don't necessarily like it, but I'm not prepared to completely discount it. Which matters little since I'm not personally setting policy for the TSA or the police.
Originally Posted by Doppy
Basing your security plan on one incident in the past is a bad way to prevent problems in the future...Nevermind the fact that the dangers from white right-wing groups are increasing.
I agree with you on your first point...
if that's the entire basis of your new security plan. Which it isn't in this case. And I was the first person in this thread to bring up the name Timothy McVeigh and by extension the danger of white/right wing terrorist groups. But let's not forget (in the interest of fair and balanced hysteria) the danger of left wing groups like Earth First, etc. Who have been considerably more active in the past few years than the right-wingers. But while there is certainly new danger from these left/right wing groups...that doesn't mean that the danger from Muslim extremist groups has lessened.
Originally Posted by Dovster
"Could be"? Of course anybody could be.
I think a fairer comparison would be, when looking for KKK members, checking Blacks as carefully as whites.
Now that would be ridiculous, wouldn't it?
Nice to see someone being rational.
And look...Mr. Logic is back. It's really too bad this isn't Debate Team GU, I'm sure you'd feel much more at home. Pardon us all for our lack of debating elegance. It's really too bad that the world doesn't function on a purely logical basis.