Fair enough, but my point still stands - effective security is objective in nature, universal in scope, and refrains from the use of idiosyncratic -isms to the maximum extent possible.

Furthermore, Al-Qaeda and its allies have moved away from using Middle Eastern people- so who should be subject to "profiling"? Black people like one of the 7/7 bombers? Young white men like al-Qaeda John Walker Lindh and homegrown terrorist Timothy McVeigh?