You want to be offended? Fly El Al to Israel. These guys passed me from one questioner to another. They checked out my friend I was visiting, good thing he was military. They completely took everything out of my luggage and spread it out on a long table and went through it all. They opened presents I was bringing for his boys and wife. They left me, unattended, with a seemingly easy stroll to get away. They walked me to the plane and met my connecting flight and walked me onto that plane(this was in the quaint old days of plain old hijacking). Hey, I'm white. What's up with this? I was told my newly issued passport and paying for my ticket with cash set off red flags.

And you know what? I was glad they were so thorough. And I told them. Why would any innocent person react differently? Would you like your last thought, as the plane explodes, to be, "At least I wasn't offened?"

I honestly think that for some liberals the answer is yes. Lord save us.
MM
 

Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, a Saudi journalist in London said:

�It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists,� he writes, �but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims. ... We cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise; an almost exclusive monopoly, implemented by Muslim men and women.�
 

Roger, You've probably seen this by now, by Daniel Pipes:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1205/pipes2005_12_06.php3?printer_friendly

He says:
"Converts to Islam are taking over the terrorist operations previously carried out mainly by Muslim-born immigrants and their children."

A good buddy of mine, working at a fine corporation, as a coder, is quite black. Now and again, he rants about being questioned by Dayton cops, or whatever, coz he fits the description.

At same corporation, they have a keycard, but tailgaiting (entering aftering after someone else opened the door) is common. I do profile everyone I allow to tailgate.

This is a difficult issue, and I haven't made up my mind yet, tho leaning against. In America. The Heartland, at least. Where I am.