JFK illegally targeting Muslims, groups say

Dateline: Aug 25, 2006
Source: Newsday

(this is really good)

Muslim, Arab and South Asian passengers are being profiled by Homeland Security officers at Kennedy Airport, civil liberties groups said Wednesday, citing a New Jersey family that was detained and interrogated after a flight from Dubai last week.

Nahgam Alyaqoubi and her daughters, Arwa and Sumia Ibrahim, naturalized American citizens, said 200 other passengers of Arab, Muslim or South Asian backgrounds were detained on Aug. 15 in a roped-off area, days after the London bomb suspects were arrested.

The family joined officials from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU - aka Islamo-Fascist Rights Supporters) and other rights groups at a news conference in the Manhattan office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The ACLU and other rights groups said they planned to investigate this and several other complaints of profiling.

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Ok while I don't agree a Mother and two daughters should be detained since 100% of Islamic Terrorism is carried out by Muslim males aged between 18-40, I do support profiling. Its when I'm pulled off the line because I have a steel support toe in my work shoes that I hate profiling.

So tell me what does the standard, stereotypical Islamic Terrorist look like? Shouldn't you start by looking more closely at the people who resemble that stereotype and work from there? Seems pretty practical to me.

If guys that look like Van Halen or Thurston Howell III were blowing people up, I'll still be for it. Its what they look like, even if I do too. I'd understand and be pissed at those guys for making my life hell.

Where is the outcry from the Muslim communty that this very small percentage of male Islamics are ruining it for the 98% of law abiding Muslims? I just don't hear it. Of course its not their fault, its the big, bad US Govt's fault. It's Bush's fault, Cheney's fault, Rumsfeld's fault.

No, its radical Islamics fault folks. Shocking as that may be. Nobody elses. But groups like the ACLU LOVE to come to the aid of anyone who's anti-white, anti-establishment, anti-Bush. Regardless of where the blame really is.

These women should not be blaming the screeners at JFK but laying the blame on Bin Laden and his ilk. They are truly the ones at the heart of this problem, not the US Govt. We're just trying to protect ourselves.