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There are more non Muslim terrorists in the US than Muslim terrorists. Might want to change the profile you are looking for.

That is interesting. I will say that the study limited it to Muslim-Americans vs. non-Muslim-Americans, rather than simply Muslims vs. non-Muslims. It also said:

The Triangle Center notes in its report that with “Muslims comprising about 1 percent of the American population, it is clear that Muslims are engaging in terrorism at a greater rate than non-Muslims — though at a low level compared with overall violence in the United States.”

I would be in support of changing and/or expanding the profile for maximum efficiency, but the way things are now is unacceptable to me.

Why are you glad about this though? Who is helped by swabbing a little boy in a wheel chair for explosive residue or whatever the hell the goal of that was? You're glad that a TSA agent should lift up his shirt and swab his cast? What are the benefits to such actions? Do they outweigh the negatives that that child had to endure?

What? Who are these nonmuslim terrorists and what is source?

It's always surprising to me that people miss the point of terror - it's not the attack, it's the threat of attack. Pulling off an attack adds some credibility to threats, but the purpose of terrorism is to change, in some deep and fundamental way, the target of the threats. So if you're Al Qaeda, they want us to change our foreign policy, to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq, to leave the Islamic world. We respond to an attack by launching costly and rather pointless wars, we build an internal apparatus that responds to fear by sacrificing personal liberties and common sense, and we're leaving Iraq and Afghanistan, all in the shadow of the Arab Spring. What exactly have we won?!

P.S. I give credit, once again, to Representative Paul, who is the only candidate who speaks out against the governmental overreach that is the TSA. As is true on a number of issues, he's too soon and too blunt, but that doesn't mean he's wrong........

This is an interesting, possibly valid concern. What is the probability that if we don't randomly search small children that terrorists will find ways to plant bombs on other people's children? Can we at least agree to limit searches of children to only children accompanied by people who are in any way suspicious? By all means, search everyone's bags. But I find it completely over the top to be patting down and swabbing children. I don't even have a problem with a close inspection of the wheelchair, but that level of scrutiny to a child's person seems excessive to me.

Where are all the alleged Right Wing extremists? Are they supposedly included in the 16% all others?

Yet 29% are extreme left wing or communist terrorists.

No tea partiers?

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