Do you favor profiling for radical islamist in this country?

Question

as a way to help prevent terror attacks? Do you vote for common sense or political correctness?

Answer 1

common sense isn't so common anymore.

Answer 2

Have you received the Republican party census questionnaire? Your question reminds me of its questions.
I received a Republican Party census questionnaire in the mail and am shocked and disgusted with what questions were asked and how they were worded.

For example under homeland and security question (5) asks, “Should homeland defense forces use profiling to protect our nation?”

Is the RNC trying to monitor how ignorant the American public might be this next presidential election?

The first part of the [Republican Party Census Document/Questionnaire]
For those of you who will not receive one.
Here are some of the questionnaire questions: [All questions share the same generic answers : Yes, No, Undecided]

Homeland Security Issues:
1. If Democrats try to gut the USA Patriot Act and other important laws that promote the safety and security of all Americans, should the Republicans fight back?
2. Should we stop the Democrats from cutting funding for our intelligence agencies or bring back Clinton-era restrictions on inter-agency communications?
3. Do you support the use of air strikes against any country that offers safe harbor or aid to individuals or organizations committed to further attacks on America?
4. Should we do everything we can to stop Democrats from repealing critical border and port security legislation?
5. Should our homeland defense forces use profiling to protect our nation?

Profiling is never the way to go. How would you like to be judged as a criminal just because of the color of your skin or religious beliefs. This thought process only serves to create fear and prejudice and hatred in those who are white and only serves to do damage to law abiding citizens of the U.S..
I would NOT like to be profiled, would you?
Why in the world do we spend time documenting our history if we aren't going to learn from it???

Answer 3

I think they should be profiled. Definately. If you read their views, they believe in killing or persecuting anyone that doesn't believe their religion. Google it and see for yourself. Most terror attacks reported around the world are mostly from radical islams. I vote for common sense and could care less about "politcal correctness".

Answer 4

If we don't profile then we are stupid. In a way we do profile but don't announce it publically. The cops on the beat profile. The people at airports profile. I profile and I will not fly with a guy or gal who is clearly a Muslim. This is common sense and survival.

Answer 5

No for many reasons. First off the majority of Muslims in America are African American converts. Second most Muslims on Earth are not Arab, which is the group that most "common sense: profilers like to profile. Third some of the most violent Muslim gorups are whites so good lukc profiling half the damn country. Fourth as I have already hopefuly proven Islam is a diverse religion which has adherents of almost every race. Finaly what about converts, many of the attacks in Britain were aided by converts so how do we profile them?

Answer 6

You cannot profile for "radical islamist"

That's like trying to profile for "convicted felon" -- it's not observable on the surface, meaning it's not profiling if you're basing it on an individual personal characteristic.

But profiling for all Muslims -- in addition to being a blatant and direct Constitutional violation (forget PC, it's illegal) -- it's also pointless. It does far more harm than good, and takes efforts away from more effective methods of scrutiny.

Answer 7

I think the Israeli approach is best...They use a series of indicators to decide who to check. Ethnicity is certainly ONE factor, but not the only one. I don't know all the criteria, but they include things like certain behaviors, gender, age, etc. If the person has a certain ethnicity in ADDITION to some of the other criteria, the person gets checked. Seems quite appropriate to me.

Answer 8

I want computer systems to do it. when an actual person has to investigate, there should be a strong reminder of innocent until proved guilty, such as test cases that are not declared to be tests until after the fact.
I am afraid abuse of power, misuse of authority and such are all to common these days, to officially sanction the actions related to that behavior.

Answer 9

I wish we could vote for cool-headed thinking, rather than irrational bluster and fear-mongering about what constitutes a "radical islamist".

Answer 10

It would be IRRESPONSIBLE not to profile Islamists.

It would be STUPID to compromise the safety of the people within your own borders for the sake of being political correct.

It would be gross NEGLIGENCE on the part of Homeland Security and other intel agencies.

Answer 11

"Profiling" is a euphamism for labeling any of the millions of law-abiding Americans who happen to be Muslim or of middle eastern decent as "suspicious," simply because of their religion or ancestry.

In short it is racsist and bigoted. And unAmerican. Contrary t o what the bigots think, treating people they don't like in a decent manner isn't "political correctness--" it is simply civilized behavior.