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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-15-06 01:13 PM
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41. You're right
in a sense but it's a slippery slope. The Murdoch media regularly run stories about how muslims are planning apocalyptic attacks and about how islamo-fascists want to take over the world, kill all unbelievers etc etc.

Muslims are on their way to becoming the new Jews, except there's more of them so this 'long war' will go on a lot longer than the Nazis took.
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  -Muslims face extra checks in new travel crackdown BushOut06  Aug-14-06 10:16 PM   #0 
  - It has begun all over... they just aren't admitting it yet.  MrsGrumpy   Aug-14-06 10:17 PM   #1 
  - If I see someone come in that's got a diaper on his head  saigon68   Aug-16-06 02:15 PM   #96 
  - Nothing like making an outraged group  spindrifter   Aug-14-06 10:19 PM   #2 
  - Not nearly as many as will be caused by making people feel  Kailassa   Aug-15-06 11:58 AM   #23 
     - every international already gets profiled when they pass through customs  Snivi Yllom   Aug-15-06 03:40 PM   #60 
     - Yes, this is a message that needs to  spindrifter   Aug-15-06 09:17 PM   #72 
  - I wonder what they'll have to wear on their jackets this time around.  Kutjara   Aug-14-06 10:21 PM   #3 
  - That was my first thought  gratuitous   Aug-15-06 01:02 PM   #35 
  - Where's V when you need him?  marmar   Aug-14-06 10:21 PM   #4 
  - Tony Blair is now watching what precious little remains of his legacy as a  Old Crusoe   Aug-14-06 10:22 PM   #5 
  - they'll just recruit non-ethnic folks  sandnsea   Aug-14-06 10:23 PM   #6 
  - And perhaps purchase surplus weapons from Israel geared to  Tellurian   Aug-14-06 10:35 PM   #11 
  - Ethnicity has nothing to do with it at all; remember Richard Reed?  MADem   Aug-15-06 03:32 AM   #14 
     - leave JWL out of it  maxsolomon   Aug-15-06 01:34 PM   #45 
        - Oh, come on, there have been plenty of high profile 'non-swarths'  MADem   Aug-15-06 08:14 PM   #70 
  - I have to say I go both ways on this....  MadMaddie   Aug-14-06 10:24 PM   #7 
  - Sounds logical to me!  Megahurtz   Aug-15-06 07:00 PM   #68 
  - Thanks!!  MadMaddie   Aug-15-06 08:44 PM   #71 
  - Thank you!  AZBlue   Aug-15-06 10:49 PM   #75 
  - Er....  FredScuttle   Aug-17-06 12:18 AM   #118 
  - Please change your subject line to match the headline of the article  flamingyouth   Aug-14-06 10:28 PM   #8 
  - done  BushOut06   Aug-14-06 10:31 PM   #9 
     - Thank you  flamingyouth   Aug-14-06 10:31 PM   #10 
  - wonder how many Muslims get extra checks on their freedom of speech  ShockediSay   Aug-15-06 12:21 AM   #12 
  - I support this, IF they do it like Israel does  MADem   Aug-15-06 03:28 AM   #13 
  - Then You Will Risk Alienating The Muslim Community  wellst0nev0ter   Aug-15-06 04:08 AM   #15 
  - So you are saying EVERY Muslim has had suspicious travel  MADem   Aug-15-06 12:47 PM   #27 
  - No, Dave Chappelle.  wellst0nev0ter   Aug-15-06 02:04 PM   #51 
     - Dave Chappelle went to S. Africa, not Yemen or points beyond  MADem   Aug-16-06 02:09 AM   #80 
        - No He's A Muslim Too  wellst0nev0ter   Aug-16-06 02:43 PM   #102 
           - Yes, he is a Muslim. and he went to South Africa, not Yemen  MADem   Aug-16-06 03:00 PM   #103 
  - Frankly,  RobinA   Aug-16-06 03:29 PM   #110 
  - during the DC sniper attacks there was blatant declaration  Bacchus39   Aug-15-06 09:18 AM   #21 
  - I was one of those bastards doing the broken line run to the GIANT  MADem   Aug-15-06 12:53 PM   #29 
  - And it's common sense that girls are whining wimps  Kailassa   Aug-15-06 12:27 PM   #24 
  - Good grief, I don't even know what to say. Sarcasm or not, that  MADem   Aug-15-06 12:42 PM   #26 
     - As soon as you lump an entire section of humanity into one box,  Kailassa   Aug-15-06 01:52 PM   #48 
        - Lumping is what people DO, it's part and parcel of policework  MADem   Aug-15-06 06:34 PM   #64 
           - Er....  FredScuttle   Aug-17-06 12:23 AM   #119 
           - And that's apropos of what?  MADem   Aug-17-06 07:07 AM   #121 
              - "Everyone who wants to blow up planes is Muslim"...  FredScuttle   Aug-17-06 08:04 AM   #122 
                 - Who, other than Christians, ARE blowing up abortion clinics???  MADem   Aug-17-06 04:11 PM   #123 
           - Oddly enough, my sister-in-law knows a kid with sickle cell  hedgehog   Aug-17-06 06:54 PM   #124 
  - If we are to be equal here...  Solon   Aug-15-06 12:54 PM   #30 
  - Certainly. If that's what they're going after, they should do it just as  MADem   Aug-15-06 01:01 PM   # 
     - Just a few years ago...  Solon   Aug-15-06 01:10 PM   #40 
     - I've said this ten times in this and other threads, ETHNICITY has NOTHING  MADem   Aug-15-06 01:16 PM   #42 
        - Just so there is no misunderstanding...  Solon   Aug-15-06 01:23 PM   #44 
           - Member of Brixton Mosque, in south London  MADem   Aug-15-06 06:40 PM   #65 
              - You support profiling, I was pointing out a danger of using it...  Solon   Aug-15-06 09:46 PM   #73 
                 - I do think the Security Detail profiled the crowd, I think they got it  MADem   Aug-15-06 11:19 PM   #78 
                    - Someone up thread referred to the Lackawanna 5  hedgehog   Aug-17-06 07:09 PM   #127 
     - It's been 5 years since 9/11  FredScuttle   Aug-17-06 12:25 AM   #120 
  - I think it meets the textbook definition of bigotry.  Bornaginhooligan   Aug-15-06 12:57 PM   #32 
     - I don't..  MADem   Aug-15-06 01:05 PM   #36 
        - Deleted sub-thread  Name removed   Aug-15-06 01:06 PM   #37 
        - The posters who argue the most strongly against antisemitism,  Kailassa   Aug-15-06 02:00 PM   #50 
        - What's that whining comment supposed to mean?  MADem   Aug-15-06 06:46 PM   #66 
        - LOL! Perfect! n/t  Megahurtz   Aug-15-06 07:05 PM   #69 
        - How will the airlines tell if someone is Muslim? Do we have to put  Love Bug   Aug-16-06 11:43 AM   #87 
        - Did you know the IRS sells your personal data unless you opt out?  MADem   Aug-16-06 02:18 PM   #97 
        - If it's not degrading and can be applied to innocent muslims,  Bretttido   Aug-16-06 11:58 AM   #88 
           - How many Prebyterians were involved in 911?  MADem   Aug-16-06 03:34 PM   #111 
  - Whats your point?  manhunter2006   Aug-15-06 05:35 AM   #16 
  - Of the 24 arrested in Britain at least 1, if not 2, was a woman  muriel_volestrangler   Aug-15-06 09:13 AM   #20 
  - There is also the problem  ninkasi   Aug-15-06 12:53 PM   #28 
  - Not to mention Brazilians...  CJCRANE   Aug-15-06 01:01 PM   #34 
  - Exactly  ninkasi   Aug-15-06 01:36 PM   #46 
  - Military taught recruits to think of "Easterners" as "Ragheads"  ConcernedCanuk   Aug-15-06 04:10 PM   #62 
  - The issue is RELIGION, not ethnicity.  MADem   Aug-15-06 12:56 PM   #31 
     - That's the crowd the MSM pays attention to -  CJCRANE   Aug-15-06 01:09 PM   #38 
  - What's your point?  High Plains   Aug-15-06 10:46 AM   #22 
  - Yeah,but..  manhunter2006   Aug-15-06 09:57 PM   #74 
     - "majority of Muslims are supportive of Islams jihad against the west"?  Bretttido   Aug-16-06 12:06 PM   #90 
  - You have a poor grasp of the facts. Your "99.99999% " is nonsense.  dicksteele   Aug-15-06 11:05 PM   #76 
  - Let me guess, you pulled that statistic directly out of your ass  Bretttido   Aug-16-06 12:00 PM   #89 
  - 99.999999% ?  athena   Aug-16-06 04:35 PM   #115 
  - Senior UK Police Officer who is also a Muslim  edwardlindy   Aug-15-06 08:30 AM   #17 
  - Maybe they should be required to wear a badge in public, so we know  The Stranger   Aug-15-06 08:46 AM   #18 
  - what would be so wrong with working with the community  cap   Aug-15-06 09:11 AM   #19 
  - "Why cant we invest in a scalpel instead of a lawn mower?"  Kailassa   Aug-15-06 12:32 PM   #25 
     - That's what INTELLIGENT Screening will do.  MADem   Aug-15-06 12:59 PM   #33 
        - That would make it so easy for terrorists ...  Kailassa   Aug-15-06 01:56 PM   #49 
        - One more time--ETHNICITY has NOTHING to do with it.  MADem   Aug-15-06 06:55 PM   #67 
           - the key is working with the Muslim community  cap   Aug-16-06 11:30 AM   #86 
           - Now, see, I say, be WARY of relying on ethnicity  MADem   Aug-16-06 02:34 PM   #99 
           - No Muslims in the IRA?  hedgehog   Aug-17-06 06:58 PM   #125 
           - You seem to be of the mindset that the ends justify the means  Bretttido   Aug-16-06 12:12 PM   #92 
              - Oh, please....give me a break  MADem   Aug-16-06 02:08 PM   #95 
                 - You seem to think that government institutions will not abuse power  Bretttido   Aug-16-06 03:17 PM   #107 
                    - As I have said elsewhere  MADem   Aug-16-06 04:07 PM   #113 
                       - Infiltrating gathering places and meetings has a bad history inthis count  hedgehog   Aug-17-06 07:04 PM   #126 
                          - But the good ones don't. They just track, inform, and use anecdotal  MADem   Aug-17-06 11:52 PM   #128 
        - It's good to know that since I'm not a muslim, I have a free pass at  Bretttido   Aug-16-06 12:08 PM   #91 
           - What are you planning on blowing up?  MADem   Aug-16-06 02:39 PM   #100 
              - I'm part of a new underground group called  Bretttido   Aug-16-06 03:20 PM   #109 
                 - Well, you can be happily underground, but if your group starts  MADem   Aug-16-06 04:13 PM   #114 
  - I don't understand why people would disagree with this policy  ItNerd4life   Aug-15-06 01:09 PM   #39 
  - You're right  CJCRANE   Aug-15-06 01:13 PM   #41 
  - Now there's a GREAT point...it IS a slippery slope, but only because  MADem   Aug-15-06 01:18 PM   #43 
  - Problem is, it doesn't MATTER who is in the White House...  Solon   Aug-15-06 01:39 PM   #47 
  - If Gore were in the white house, it would not even be an issue  Bretttido   Aug-16-06 12:16 PM   #93 
  - I can understand it being a slippery slope, look at WWII  ItNerd4life   Aug-15-06 02:08 PM   #52 
  - The profiled are never going to be the empowered race.  The Stranger   Aug-15-06 02:14 PM   #53 
  - I do understand racism. This isn't. Here is definition and reasons.  ItNerd4life   Aug-16-06 08:21 AM   #83 
  - The empowered race is never going to be the subject of the profile.  The Stranger   Aug-16-06 10:30 AM   #85 
     - ?????????  MADem   Aug-16-06 03:05 PM   #104 
        - Learn about institutionalized racism and racial profiling.  The Stranger   Aug-16-06 09:03 PM   #116 
           - Google is your friend.... NT  MADem   Aug-16-06 10:35 PM   #117 
  - So.......  Megahurtz   Aug-16-06 03:14 PM   #106 
  - Tweety was all in favor of profiling last night  Snivi Yllom   Aug-15-06 02:56 PM   #55 
  - This is 1000 times more effective than banning deodorant or lipstick  Snivi Yllom   Aug-15-06 02:54 PM   #54 
  - So... Will we have to declare our religion  PsychoDad   Aug-15-06 03:17 PM   #56 
  - You already DO declare your religion in many, indeed most, cases  MADem   Aug-16-06 03:12 PM   #105 
     - They could look at what books I buy....  PsychoDad   Aug-16-06 03:19 PM   #108 
        - They've tried that already--ask Monica Lewinsky, and the Librarians'  MADem   Aug-16-06 03:51 PM   #112 
  - That has to be unConstitutional!  MasonJar   Aug-15-06 03:38 PM   #57 
  - This is being discussed in Britain, not the US.  nsd   Aug-15-06 11:24 PM   #79 
  - When do they start filling up those Halliburton Detention camps?  sarcasmo   Aug-15-06 03:39 PM   #58 
  - Codified bigotry. Disgusting.  Zhade   Aug-15-06 03:40 PM   #59 
  - And acceptance of fascism marches on...  countryjake   Aug-15-06 04:00 PM   #61 
  - Muslims face extra checks  Alameda   Aug-15-06 06:22 PM   #63 
  - How do they tell?  Bill McBlueState   Aug-15-06 11:15 PM   #77 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Aug-16-06 02:22 AM   #81 
  - No ... that's not the "no-brainer" ...  Nihil   Aug-16-06 07:41 AM   #82 
  - If we single out muslims/arabs, then the terrorists will just recruit  noonwitch   Aug-16-06 09:51 AM   #84 
  - Consider this thought: Is it police work, instead of racism?  ItNerd4life   Aug-16-06 01:16 PM   #94 
  - Then chimp-faced war criminals need super attention  specimenfred1984   Aug-16-06 02:43 PM   #101 
  - America has turned into a land of discrimination and not democracy!  Tight_rope   Aug-16-06 02:33 PM   #98 
 

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