On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Michael Grant <mgr...@modus.bz> wrote:
> > > I could care less about being nice or being PC. My point from the start has > been that "Muslim" as part of the profile of a terrorist is a useless > criteria that is much more damaging than it is useful. And I would disagree with that. Any criteria that can be added to a profile will only server to make it more specific. Hence, there is less likelihood of 'getting the wrong guy' Most of the incidents > cited by some in this thread as 'proof' that terrorism is predominantly > Muslim is a bit of red herring. Of course terrorists in the middle east are > going to be Muslim since the majority of people in the middle east are > Muslim. Using Muslim as a descriptor is just inflammatory fear mongering > and > is of no use to the task at hand. The ratio of Muslims to terrorists is so > low that it serves absolutely no purpose to use it as a criteria. See above. Any exclusionary or inclusionary criteria you can add to a profile will only server to narrow the scope. Saying we are looking for a man is not nearly as desrcript as saying we are looking for a white agnostic man in his early 40's, overweight, with brown hair, slightly greying, blue eyes and loves Ethyl Murmon music. The latter give us a much finer scope at whom to look at. Once again I am not advocating using Muslim as the sole criteria, but I do not think it should be excluded from a profile solely because it might upset people. I mean, should we not include eye color or skin color because it may offend some? > > > The problem with this thread, and many others, is that the original debate > gets infused with an array of useless analogies that we end up defending or > debunking. Comments about this being a matter of intestinal fortitude or > rationality vs. emotions are just useless smokescreens. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:291930 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
