When we see what has happened in our country in the last months it is hard not to hate, it is almost impossible not to be angry, and these emotions have merit. If you are an American citizen you should be angry, you should be upset, these are our fellow citizens, our fellow freedom loving brothers and sisters that died for what? But in the midst of all of this why should we turn and accuse people of committing a cri

Mr. Khaluf, like millions of Arab-Americans, sympathizes with Americans in this time for they too have felt grief such as this. A huge majority of the Arab community is seeking peace. They are citizens just like any other American, yet now they feel unwelcome.

The scary fact is that what allowed the September 11th terrorists to succeed was not their box cutters; it was their sheer will. What is to stop terrorists now from using new weapons? What is to stop even Al Qaida terrorists from recruiting non-Arabs and non-Muslims to do their dirty work? I would wager that terrorists could bring down a plane with their bare hands, if properly trained and motivated.

me due to their race or religious affiliation? Should our law enforcement agencies use racial profiling as a tool to fight terrorism?

Let us be clear about what racial profiling means. Racial profiling is not merely using race as one piece of information that aids a police investigation. For example, using the fact of Arab ancestry -- coupled with other personal information about a person like immigration history or political associations -- may be a legitimate part of a police investigation. Racial profiling, in contrast, is the scrutiny of a person solely because of race, based on a pre-determined notion of the propensity of persons of that race for crime. I'm talking about stopping people of Arab descent at the border, at the airport, on the highway.

There is a different form of this same statistical argument that deserves debunking. I heard one commentator on Jeff Greenfield's show on MSNBC state that if racial profiling had been in practice on September 11th, then the World Trade Center and Pentagon attackers would have been apprehended. As appealing and comforting as this "do anything if it saves one life" argument may seem, it is simply unfounded. If Mohammed Atta and the other alleged attackers had been singled out and methodically searched on September 11th, what would airline securit

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