What is wrong with Racial Profiling?

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To add to ag's points, note that the one bomber was actually Jamican. He wouldn't have been picked up by racial profiling...

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One problem Goldie. Islam is a religion... you can't tell if someone is a Muslim just by looking at them.

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How many Muslims have blonde hair and blue eyes? Of course you can't tell 100% of the time.

How many Christians have blue eyes and blond hair? Not many either.

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And this is where racial profiling breaks down in this case. Not one of the intial four London bombers were Arabs. Not one of the failed four London bombers were Arabs.
Three of the four originals were Pakistanis, the other (and the one that killed by far the most) was actually Jamiacan. Two of the four failures seem to have been Pakistanis, the other two seem to have come from East Africa.
How the hell does racial profiling help in those cases?

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Nope. About a third of Muslim men are called Mohammed IIRC, but a lot of those don't use it as there first name as such.

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[Filuwaúrdjan]

To prove my point these are the suspects in the failed attack (the first photo is the bugger that got tasered by the police this morning)...









And here's the first four bombers:









How exactly would racial profiling have helped to stop their attacks?
Unless you suggest locking up and/or monitoring everyone who doesn't fit your dreams of an Aryan master race...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It's funny how some people bring out the one or two cases in which terrorists didn't look we expect terrorists to look, while ignoring the countless other cases in which they have looked exactly as we would expect them to look.

I brought it up because the bomber who "didn't look how we expect them to look" killed as many people as the other three put together

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This seems to be why he ran away

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I should add that I'm not opposed to limited racial (or anything else actually) profiling in certain circumstances (ie: in the context of an investigation or during a major terrorist scare etc).