ian wrote on Dec 23
rd, 2015 at 4:26pm:
No, you would be stupid not to use it. It is used because it works. Anything else you dont know anything about you care to comment on?
It is stupid and lazy and leads to people getting killed because you can't properly recognize threats.
It doesn't work. Just ask the Israelis who were looking for Middle Eastern terrorists to come and attack them and missed the Japanese Red Army terrorists who did the job instead with the Lod Airport Massacre. These JAPANESE terrorists killed 26 innocent people and injured 79 and this was all because the Israelis screwed up and didn't understand proper threat recognition.
There's a better method, it's called Behavior Pattern Recognition. You look at the actions of a person instead of focusing on just their race or apparent religion and if they have a pattern of suspicious behavior then you act and scrutinize further. If you profile people just on race and religion then you'll miss it.
Don't forget, there are a lot of ISIL terrorists from European Countries, carrying European Passports with very European features and names that will take advantage of you trying to profile what you perceive to be a Muslim..
I should point out now that my profession is a consultant in counter terrorism and I'm very good at what I do.