To Profile or Not to Profile

 
The attempted attack on New York's Times Square gave us another glimpse of a deadly disease eating away at our society: Political Correctness. The PC problem is exacerbated by the left's desire to have the "right wing crazies" (their definition) responsible for acts of terror plaguing us.

This time it was New York's Bloomberg that supplied the gems: he was ready to bet that the terrorist was somebody "who disliked President Obama's health-care reform" or somebody similar. When a Pakistani Muslim was arrested Bloomberg warned us not to discriminate against New Yorkers of Pakistani descent or Muslims in general.
Did he hear any talk of discrimination? Did he apologize for his previous statement? Of course not.

The situation is even worse than I expected. The Department of Homeland Security issued a warning that the terrorist may try to escape through an airport and put him on the no-fly list. He was apprehended - on board an Emirates airliner that had to be recalled from the runway at JFK. The Department explained that from now on airlines will have to update their lists every two hours so that such a situation doesn't happen again. What wasn't explained is how did the terrorist go through all the other security checks unmolested.

He did everything to attract attention: bought a one way ticket to Dubai for cash, bought the ticket at the last moment and used his own passport with his own, now banned from flying, name on it. I am sure that the baby waiting in the TSA line with him was inspected, he likely took off his shoes and the grandma behind him in line was frisked. Everybody was so busy doing stupid stuff that they never paid any attention to who was going through to the gates.

I hope that all this was just plain stupidity, but I have this sinking feeling that it's not. If you put together how the underwear bomber got on the flight to Detroit this Christmas and how Major Niddal Hassan wasn't even called a terrorist, and still isn't, you may arrive at one of several conclusions:
Either there is a widespread conspiracy to coddle Muslim terrorists and enable their activities or Political Correctness is deeply embedded and encouraged.

I think that it is the second choice. It is quite unlikely that all of Hassan's colleagues in the Army wanted to enable him in his quest to be a good Muslim. It is more likely that PC, encouraged all along the chain of command, was the culprit. The same PC that makes our government bent over backwards to accommodate Muslims, including looking the other way when obviously suspicious activities are underway. The same mentality was likely at work when the latest terrorist was granted entry into the US and later citizenship. He wasn't alone. His brethren were admitted before him and will continue to be admitted into the US.

We really need profiling. We had one crazy guy that attacked a Federal building in Oklahoma City. Since that event the left is all for profiling. Profiling against the right, which is anybody who doesn't agree with them.

The time is right to start profiling against Muslims. Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists, except that one, are Muslims. We really need to take a good look and keep looking at observant Muslims who are compelled by their religion to impose Islam on all of us. Not all of them display the obvious accouterments of their religion, but a close look at their background, friends and activities will disclose their loyalties.

If I'm correct, without profiling we will see a string of more or less successful terror acts until a big one like 9/11 happens again. Hopefully that one will wake this country up. If not, we are royally screwed.