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Originally posted by Spanky
I agree with that notion, and I think most people on this board do to. My guess is that Arabs hijack more planes than any other nationality on a per capita basis. I assumed that the issue was for you that taking that statistic into account for profiling causes more damage to our civil liberties than it helps in stopping terrorism.
I find it hard to believe that you think that statistic is wrong.
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I think that statistic is utterly irrelevant compared to the fact that there are far more Arabs don't blow up planes (hi Hank!) than Arabs that do. As a consequence, to suggest that Arabs are more likely, because they are Arabs, to be terrorists, is to act upon prejudice and not reason.
