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Originally Posted by cuffy
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Originally Posted by Pigbunk
Ok, I see your point.
Over the last hundred years, many atrociites have been commited. Which of these ethnic groups is 100% innocent?
1) White European
2) White US
3) Black
4) Asian
5) Oriental
6) None of the above: if you look hard enough you will find that anyone is capable of an atrocity, it depends more on people than on nationality or ethnic grouping.
The trouble with profiling, even when it has some basis in "fact" (the fact that Muslim's are a religious group and not a race, and therefore can't be racially profiled, and that they don't wear turbans (that's sikhs) is beside the point) makes it very easy for an ethnic group to feel discriminated against (after all, they are!) and therefore causes law-abiding people to feel victimised, creating more animosity from this ethnic group and consequently more potential terrorists. At the very least, profiling provides more fuel for extremists to say "look at the racism of the West".
How would you feel if, during the times when the UK was being bombed by the IRA, all white people flying into or out of another country were being searched? Wouldn't make sense, would it?
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It was meant tounge in cheek and not too offend...a bit of light heartedness 
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Fair enough, I'm just a little over sensitive at the moment due to the paranoia in the press, and the danger I perceive in comments such as this. What you wrote could easily be misread as racism, and I apologise if that is what I have done.
Can we still be friends?
(Anyway, why should it bother you? Hannibal ain't getting you on no plane, fool?)