Originally Posted by Airbubba
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The British government is considering a system of passenger profiling that includes checks on travelers' ethnic or religious background, according to media reports.
The planned system of tougher airport checks would create a new offense of "traveling whilst Asian," according to one of Britain's most senior Muslim police officers...
Oh dear, what a shame. Unfortunately the whole world is currently being inconvenienced by a minority of nutcases, who do in the main fit a particular, easily identifiable, profile. You know, there comes a point when being PC needs to be left behind, it may not be right or fair, but it's for the greater good. And as a muslim caller said on LBC radio this morning, if the head-firmly-buried-in-the-sand muslim community leaders would actually do something about the minority of nutcases hiding in their ranks then the need for this profiling would end.