Finding trends and extrapolating from them is what people do. It's absurd to tell our law enforcement and security people that they mustn't pay attention to trends that show.
Oh, fiddle, Photodude says it much better, by extracting this list from this e-mail:
1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by...
2. In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by...
3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by...
4. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by...
5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by...
6. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by...
7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by...
8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by...
9. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by...
10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed and thousands of people were killed by...
11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against...
12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by...
...and now a new one not on the list:
13. In 2002, a plot to explode a radiological "dirty bomb" in the US was made by...
The clear and undeniable answer to each and every item?
"Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40."
Our course is clear. There is such a thing as responsible profiling. It's time to start.
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