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Letters: The pressure to profile In suppressing the impulse to profile Muslims, Ruben Navarrette has also suppressed the impulse to be rational [""Fight impulse to profile Muslims," Aug. 20]. Obviously the British are not taking Navarrette's cue. For the first time officials of the British Department for Transport are proposing ethnic profiling as a means of more effectively identifying potential terrorists. The predictable chorus of "racism" and "Islamophobia" from liberal elites and civil libertarians increasingly fails to sway people. In the West we are finally coming to terms with the reality that, although all Muslims are not terrorists, almost all terrorists are Muslims. More importantly, we are no longer afraid to express that opinion. Recently, 150 passengers on a British flight from Spain to the United Kingdom overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic. Passengers told the cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it left. Others, waiting in the airport lounge for another flight home, refused to board the plane. It would appear that with or without government support, average people are starting to do their own profiling. Anyone who has bothered to read a newspaper in the last five years knows that the overwhelming majority of terrorist plots in the world are hatched by individuals who are male, Middle-Eastern and Muslim. Given that Americans and other non-Muslim nations have been repeatedly threatened by these people, why should we extend to them the same courtesy we extend to others and assume they are trustworthy? Trust must be earned, and frankly, because of continuous random acts of violence throughout the world, Muslims no longer hold that trust. That is their fault, not ours. Mark Nedelman Irvine Profiling is inevitable Ruben Navarrette is quite concerned that we may begin (horror of all horrors) profiling Muslims in our efforts to protect U.S citizens from despicable terror plots, such as the home-grown (radical, terrorist, British-born perpetrator's) plot foiled by "profiling" by our British friends, who are at least as concerned (if not more so) as we are in protecting the loss of innocent life. Navarrette chooses to take the path of those whom Mark Steyn speaks of - those who have lost the will to fight this war on terror. Let's instead dress it up with politically correct niceties. Despite Navarrette's protests that we should continue to search the (white) 85-year-old grandmothers, they really do not match the profile of the terrorists who seek our destruction. Navarrette chooses political correctness over our safety. We are in a fight against a religious fanaticism that calls for destruction of the infidels (that's us folks) at all costs. The fanatics aren't Amish, Buddhists, Hindus, re-born Christians, Catholics or Jews - the fanatics are Muslims. The war on terrorism will ultimately dictate what we must do. Sadly, another act of murder like 9-11 will steel our resolve. Then you will see profiling and that profiling will be for those who fit the description of Islamic fascists. It is inevitable. C. Wasmer Buena Park The threat is real If the situation weren't so serious I would have thought Ruben Navarrette's article in the Sunday edition of the Register "Fight impulse to profile Muslims" a joke. Who does he think caused the violence at the Iran Embassy in1979, the Beirut-Lebanon Embassy in 1983, the Nairobi, Kenya Embassy in 1998, the Dar es Salaam embassy in Kenya in 1998, Downed the plane over Lockerbie Scotland in 1988, attacked the World Trade Center in 1993 and destroyed it in 2001? If we brought a little more pressure on the Muslims around the world they would address their own. Personally I think Islam is as big a threat as when the Germanic tribes crossed the Rubicon into Rome. If we aren't careful there will be little for the meek to inherit. Jerry Hoosier Orange Blaming all for sins of a few I agree with Ruben Navarrette when he asks the public and government to refrain from profiling Muslim Americans ["Fight impulse to profile Muslims"]. My ancestors in Iran experienced many holocausts by various Muslim rulers after the fall of the Zoroastrian Persian empire around 630 A.D. at the hands of Arab armies. But, I would not blame all Muslims for the massacres, looting and persecution suffered by Zoroastrians. Profiling to detect terrorists should involve several factors beyond just religion. Many Muslim civilians are also becoming victims of militant Islamic terrorists, so it is in their own interest to report any intelligence they come across about terror cells to our authorities, and publicly condemn terrorism in their community meetings at their mosques and religious centers. This will help assure Americans that their first allegiance is to the country where they live and to the peaceful, democratic principles we stand for, rather than be brainwashed by militants in the name of religion. Maneck Bhujwala Huntington Beach Let profiling cut both ways It seems that many Americans are writing in to support racial profiling for Muslims coming and going from the U.S.. As a Muslim I totally support the idea. After all, we are all fanaticized terrorists just waiting for the opportunity to blow something up, right? I hope other countries in the free world also implement similar policies when it comes to Americans traveling to and from their nations as well. 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