Profiling Makes Sense To Me
Sorry - a P.S. to my posting a minute ago!
My ship mates - thousands of elderly and infirm folk - were highly unlikely to be terrorists. Think of the overwhelming mass of visa processing and time spent interviewing these people? What an expensive waste of resources it was.
With all respects to the vast majority of muslims, who I know are decent law abiding people, bombers have tended (so far) to be youngish and muslim. I would think that makes profiling a very sensible idea. Target extra resources on the small group of travelers who fit the likely profile. It is nonsense to call it discrimination or racist, because it is driven by crime intelligence, not by xenophobia. They have been using profiling for years in Customs, and it seems to have a good record of catching villains.