Airport Security: Let's Profile Muslim

Although racial profiling often times affects blacks more than any other race on a day to day basis, many other races and ethnic groups are faced with racial profiling in more sever situations such as terrorism. Since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Arabs and Muslims have been racially profiled

Racial profiling can be defined, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, as the discriminatory practice by law enforcement officials [or security personnel] of targeting individuals for suspicion of crime based on the individual 's race, ethnicity, religion or national origin. Although this act is not directly illegal, it violates core principles of our democracy: two of them being, the Fourteenth Amendment, which outlines the citizenship of African Americans along with equal protection of the laws, including the right to life, liberty and property, and due process, and the Fourth Amendment, which provides citizens their right against unreasonable searches and seizures. Racial profiling affects a wide range of minority groups. Reports on alcu.org state, “More than 240 years of slavery and 90 years of legalized racial segregation have led to systemic profiling of blacks in traffic and pedestrian stops” (Racial Profiling). Members of South Asian, Arab, and Muslim communities have also been categorized in regards to travel and terroristic activities by federal law enforcement and airline security due to the events on September 11, 2001. Latino communities have too been profiled and alienated due to the

Another troubling consequence of the Patriot Act and the expansion of surveillance powers is the use of profiling. In order to efficiently gather intelligence information for the safety of this country, it would be common sense to develop a target of sorts to better focus the efforts made. Many believe that Muslims in this country have become the unfortunate targets of profiling. The monitoring of those with family and business ties to countries rooted with terrorism is a logical direction for

For example, Muslim people are being targeted cultural profiling because there is a group terrorist group called ISSAS. More than 80% of the members in ISIS are Muslim. Whenever someone sees a Muslim person walking down the street, they will think that person is part of ISIS just because that person is Muslim. According to “RACIAL PROFILING” by ACLU Racial profiling as gone up since September 11 2001 (9/11) due to the terrorist attacks on the twin tower. “Members of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities have been profiled by airline personnel, federal law enforcement, and local police.” In addition, racial profiling is casting entire communities as suspect simply from what they look like, where they come from, or what religion they adhere to. It's not just one culture and one group it's affecting many communities of colors. Overall, racial profiling is causing people all over our community to live in fear.

There are tons of cases of Racial Profiling. Now a days many people are being targeted or attacked by racial profiling. Laws are being passed but not every police officer is following up with it. And because of this more and more people are becoming irritated with the government system. Just because a particular person from a particular race does something wrong, everyone from that race is being discriminated by so-called other races. Racial profiling is getting worst by the years go by, it is becoming a hot topic. Ever since the major attack of September 11, 2001 many people have seen Muslims as terrorists. Racial profiling doesn’t just affect Muslims; it affects African Americans and Hispanics. Due to the action of just one individual, and from that individual affects the whole race behind it. It just doesn’t make that person look bad it makes they’re race look as bad as they do. That is why African American, Hispanics, and Muslims are being targeted. Racial profiling negatively impacts society.

The United States is a media driven society and controversial topics are enhanced because of the resources available in the American civilization facilitating communication and awareness. Racial profiling is a complex topic that mostly affects minorities, however, everyone is affected by this issue in today’s society. After the attack on the World Trade Center, racial profiling has been used to presumably stop or prevent terrorism. It has come to light that this approach has had a diminutive progress, no terrorist has been caught through this technique. To this day some Americans are still distrustful of Muslim and Middle Eastern individuals. Some argue that racial profiling has the potential to catch terrorists, but social profiling can sometimes justify terrorist acts and its discrimination. The recent eradication of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has affected thousands of recipients in a comparable way, but it has taken a toll on their social life. The DACA program was launched as an attempt to provide a means by which persons who do not have a legal status, but were brought to the Unite States as minors, could apply for legal permanent status, leading to neutralization (“A Brief History”). Although it is very common for our community to think of racial profiling as an absent or past issue, the obstacle is still present and is currently being contemplated to analyze its effect on the American society along with discrimination.

Racial profiling is a prominent aspect of culture in America today. Some people refuse to believe that racism still exists in the United States, which makes it such a controversial topic. There have been many cases that have come out that relate to racial profiling. Most of them have a tendency to be related to violent acts. They can involve all different races such as African American or Middle-Eastern people. Especially after 9/11,

Hypothesis: The events of September 11th has caused racial profiling, a practice that was vilified by many just months ago, to become a common and accepted practice used by the government, airline officials, police agencies, and the American public. Profiling has also become a necessary tool used to prevent further terrorist attacks on the United States.

Racial profiling is a futile method in preventing domestic and international terrorism. But regardless of this fact, the United States has attempted to employ this technique in its counter-terror and espionage efforts dating back as early as World War II. And as long as this has been present in has been a point of contention and discussion amongst the American populace, as this country has well documented accounts of this throughout their history that include: the internment of Japanese-Americans in WWII, the profiling of minorities and low-income areas during the War on Drugs,

Racial profiling doesn’t just apply to African Americans. For example, do we assume that every Arab is a terrorist? Since 9/11, Muslims and people of Arab descent have become targets through forms of racial profiling. On December

For a second, the U.S. stood still. Looking up at the towers, one can only imagine the calm before the storm in the moment when thousands of pounds of steel went hurdling into its once smooth, glassy frame. People ran around screaming and rubble fell as the massive metal structure folded in on itself like an accordion. Wounded and limping from the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, America carried on, not without anger and fear against a group of innocent Americans, Muslim Americans. Nietzsche’s error of imaginary cause is present in the treatment of Muslim Americans since 9/11 through prejudice in the media, disregard of Muslim civil liberties, racial profiling, violence, disrespect, and the lack of truthful public information about

In “Why Profiling Won’t Work” by William Raspberry, the author uses the word “profiling” in the article is used to describe the process by which law enforcement look for physical looks and behavior to target possible terrorists. In the article Raspberry cares about his country, but he wants to inform readers about the useless profiling practices. By giving his personal experiences being profiled by law enforcement, Raspberry believes that since Americans looks all sorts of way that profiling can’t work because there is no way to tell terrorists from non-tourists. In "My Homeland Security Journey" by Meher Ahmad, Meher wants to also inform his readers about how effective racial profiling is as a tool in airport security and show the impact 9/11

Racial profiling is an epidemic. It has negatively impacted communities for generations. THe use of race by American police in their policing activities has received much attention across the world. Social media have exploded the daily news people consume and trends are now visible to those that previously didn’t notice it. Countless studies were released on that epidemic and yet, in 2016, nothing seems to have changed. There are those who will support the idea, but quite often, it’s because it doesn’t affect them. While it’s true that African Americans have a particular past with racial profiling in America, it’s has always been much broader experience. Anyone with Arabic look or with Muslim affiliation would be constantly set aside for extra searching and questioning at airports. As a journalist so well explained “People like

The mass media selectively promotes racial profiling. The assumptions driving terrorism profiling are not any different than “street-level” profiling—in that, a particular crime (in this case, terrorism) is most expected to be committed by members of a particular religious, ethnic, or racial group and that the members of that group (in this case, Muslims) are, in general, likely to be implicated in that manner of criminal activity…These assumptions are highly defective. The assumption that terrorist acts are inevitably perpetrated by Arabs or that the architect, of a terrorist act, is likely to be Islamic is a faulty assumption. While all the men, believed to have been, involved in the September 11th hijackings were of Arabic nationality, Richard Reid, who on December 22, 2001, attempted to ignite a volatile device on a trans-Atlantic flight, was a British citizen of Jamaican ancestry. This furthermore coincides with my line of reasoning that extremists exist throughout all cultures. In fact, prior to September 11th the deadliest act of terrorism on United States soil was initiated by [Oklahoma City bomber] Timothy McVeigh. Even non-Arabs like John Walker Lindh, a Californian, can be linked to the Taliban, al-Qaeda and

After 9/11 and the subsequent increase in national security, many Muslims, or those who fit the stereotype of Muslims, have been profiled and “randomly selected” for screening in airports. Islamophobia, which is a result of Muslim stereotypes, has also caused many Muslims (and Arabs that fit the Muslim stereotype) to be faced with racial slurs, threats, physical assault and even death. This is because most people cannot dissociate the stereotype that Muslims are terrorists from reality. As a result they lash out at anyone they believe fits the profile of being