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CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - An Arab American U.S. Secret Service
agent heading to Texas to protect President Bush was barred from
taking an American Airlines flight this week, the Secret Service said
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Wednesday, December 26, 2001
We'll pay them reparations later
By Ann Coulter
� 2001 Universal Press Syndicate
In response to the attempted bombing last week of an American
Airlines jet by Tariq Raja � aka Abdel Rahim, aka Richard
"Saltonstall" Reid IV, aka "Biff" � the airlines sprang to action
with random passenger shoe checks.
According to the New York Times, there is no discernible pattern in
the airlines' choice of fliers targeted for aggressive footwear
examination. At the Atlanta airport, for example, the passengers
whose shoes were searched "included a flight attendant, an elderly
black man, a white man wearing a cowboy hat and boots, and an Asian
woman with two small children."
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman responded to this latest
attack by summarily announcing that our only choices are to "become
less open as a society" or simply "to live with much higher levels of
risk."
I think I have another solution. It's something I like to call
"ethnic profiling." My logic is this: There is a common thread hidden
within 20 years of relentless attacks on America by Muslim
extremists: In every one of these attacks by Muslim extremists, there
appears to be one or more Muslim extremists involved. This ought to
help the airlines engage in more accurate risk assessment.
Tariq "Biff" Raja attended the same mosque as Zacarias Moussaoui, the
suspected 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attack. (The New York Times
has yet to report Tariq's connection to the mosque, though the paper
will surely print that fact before any of the media will ever breathe
a word about the story reported in the San Francisco Examiner that
American jihadist John Walker's father left Mrs. Walker for another
man.)
The men who used passenger jets to attack America on Sept. 11 were
Muslim extremists.
Last year, our warship, the USS Cole, was attacked by Muslim
extremists.
In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by Muslim
extremists, killing 212 people and wounding thousands.
In 1996, Muslim extremists exploded a truck bomb outside an Air Force
housing complex in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 and injuring hundreds
more.
In 1995, five Americans were killed in a car bomb explosion executed
by Muslim extremists.
In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by Muslim extremists,
killing six and injuring thousands.
Also in 1993, Muslim extremists plotted to assassinate then U.S.
President George Bush. (Intriguingly, the word "assassin" comes from
a Muslim sect active in the 11th to 13th centuries known as "the
Assassins" for their religious practice of murdering infidels.)
In 1988, another passenger jet, Pan Am Flight 103, was bombed by
Muslim extremists, killing 270 people.
In 1986, Muslim extremists bombed a West Berlin discotheque
frequented by U.S. servicemen.
In 1985, Muslim extremists seized an Italian cruise ship, the Achille
Lauro, and murdered Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old, wheelchair-bound
American.
In 1983, Muslim extremists blew up U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut,
killing 241 American servicemen.
In 1982, Muslim extremists bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing
49 people, including 17 Americans.
In 1979, Muslim extremists stormed the U.S. Embassy in Iran and held
American Embassy staff hostage for 444 days.
So, naturally, it took the airlines completely by surprise last week
when the passenger who tried to detonate a sneaker bomb on a
passenger jet turned out to be a Muslim extremist. Doggedly imitating
an Alzheimer's joke, the airlines instantly began ever more intrusive
examinations of elderly black men, cowboys and Asian women with small
children.
Meanwhile, al-Qaida just keeps on coming. The chairman of the London
mosque attended by Moussaoui and Raja told the British Broadcasting
Corp. he believes there are hundreds more Islamic extremists in
Britain lying in wait for their chance to become suicide bombers. He
expressed incredulity at the idea that Raja could have planned the
sneaker bomb plot on his own.
Yet the Times' Friedman, in a commonplace formulation, sniffs that
ethnic profiling is not "civilized" and then gratuitously attacks
"religious fundamentalists of any stripe."
I don't know. Amish extremists have been rather quiescent lately. If
all this carnage and murder had been executed by anti-abortion
extremists rather than Muslim extremists, it is unlikely that
Friedman would be pussyfooting around the issue by referring to the
culprits as "political extremists of any stripe."
The refusal to make a connection between Muslim extremists and
unending violence by Muslim extremists borders on psychopathological
disturbance. Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but
in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
In 1996, Osama bin Laden mocked the United States, saying: "Your
problem will be how to convince your troops to fight, while our
problem will be how to restrain our youths to wait for their turn in
fighting."
Our "youths" have taken Kabul, dropped daisy-cutters on Osama's cave,
and are now sleeping in their boots in the middle of an Afghan winter
while dreaming of Iraq.
But on another front � the commercial aircraft war-zone opened by al-
Qaida � bin Laden is right: We refuse to fight. Bedraggled, smelly
men who make Talibanist John Walker look like Beaver Cleaver are
getting on airplanes with C4 explosive material, and we commend
ourselves for being so "civilized."
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been dubbed "the Abbie Hoffman of the Right." Dubbed "one of the 20
most fascinating women in politics" by George magazine, Coulter has
appeared on ABC's "This Week," "Good Morning America," NBC's "Today,"
"Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher," CNN's "Larry King Live" and
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