To use your analogy, does the FBI EVER add "Christian" to the top of their list when profiling serial killers? I'll give you a hint... no. They add behavioural stuff. "Detachment disorder, may have trouble making deep emotional connections etc." Your argument that we should be able to profile terrorists by looking at "Muslims" is just silly. Um, ok, what does a Muslim look like? For that matter what does a Christian look like so that we can eliminate them right off the bat.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is not what he is saying. Saying we have certain behaviors or traits > that match those of other, known, terrorists, one of which is being Muslim, > it vastly different than saying all Muslims are terrorists. > > How come people do not get all up in arms when the FBI uses profiling to > catch serial killers? Why is it OK in those instances, but not for trying > to > stop terrorists? > > Lets look at the guys who hijacked the planes on 9/11. How many were > Muslims from the Middle East? Oh yea, ALL OF THEM. Does that mean that all > Muslims are terrorists? No. It means tha ta commomnality between them is > that they Muslims from the Middel East > > If you were a cop and wanted to stop a particular kind of crime, would you > begin by looking at everyone? No. You would begin to narrow down the > suspect pool by finding traits and behaviors that match those of others who > have committed the same kind of crime. In other words, you would develop a > profile. Will it always be 100% accurate? No, but its a hell of a lot more > accurate than randomly looking at local church groups, boy scout troops, > etc > in the hopes that you will stumble upon a group of gun runners. > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Why stop there Gruss? > > > > Why not round up all the muslims in the US and throw them in > > Guantanamo, and debar them from ever getting a VISA into the United > > States. > > Then you'll be totally safe. > > > > 2009/3/11 Gruss Gott <[email protected]>: > > > > > So the first qualifier in the international terrorist profile seems to > > > be "Muslim". > > > > > > I'm not trying to be provocative - and certainly this is a small > > > percentage of Muslims and many/most are fine people - but is there > > > anything factually wrong here? > > > > > > Cause if there is, I don't see it, and therefore it's a basis for > > > action for our own security. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291477 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
