Reply #66: Who has the bank account with unearned income? [View All]

[MADem]

Who has the suspicious travel? Who didn't pay for their ticket? Who has a weaselly, weak excuse for their travel to a location that is a way station for the Violence University Madrasah course or the terror training camp? Who frequents a masjid that preaches violence, and/or hangs with the crew that hangs on every word of the Imam who starts his sermon with a group sing-along of Borat's "Throw the Jew Down the Well?"

Look, I am getting tired of explaining, in thread after thread on this subject, that ETHNICITY is NOT the driver here. APPEARANCE, particularly a swarthy, dusky, unibrow, bearded, you-name-the-stereotyped aspect or feature, is not the prime player. Those two you picture above could be serial killers or a nun and a priest on a naughty vacation. It's not their LOOKS, it's a series of factors--if they meet a sufficient number of the factors, they're gonna get interviewed. That's what INTELLIGENT PROFILING focuses on. And GOOD intelligent profiling ensures that, once questions are resolved (that hundred thousand dollars in the bank is from my inheritance, grampa died last year and left it to me) that the person does not CONTINUE to be hassled repeatedly, absent other alarms going off.

When deciding who in the airplane line to check, a person's physical appearance is damn near useless. That swarthy Lebanese guy could be a Maronite. He's not gonna light one up for Usama. That dusky Iranian could be a Zoroastrian, and those guys make peaceniks look aggressive. That Arafattish looking fellah could be a Coptic Christian, or mama mia, a JEW! Or better still, Italian, Greek, Spanish. The Ann Coulter definition of Muslim does NOT WORK.

But, save ASKING, how do we know what they are? Well, an automated background check (tax returns, especially; credit card expenses too) can reveal what house of worship gets charitable contributions from these folks, and one can then extrapolate that they aren't going to be firing up the fuse for the old jihad, or their background merits additional scrutiny. The Muslim who has been visiting grandma and the cousins in Iran every year during his August vacation, leave him alone. The Muslim going to a professional conference, with reservations, registration fees paid, he goes every year, skip him. The fat, pimpled, blond kid with the crocheted fez and stupid "costume" who has five hairs growing out of his chin, an attitude, attendance at a masjid that starts out all prayers with "We will push the Jews into the sea, Inshallah" and a bank account full of dough yet NO tax return on file because he's UN-EM-PLOYED...well, let's give that little fucker the once-over.

Ya wanna play "spot the terrorist?" Which one of these should we be looking out for?

http://www.phaseloop.com.nyud.net:8090/foreignprisoners/img-prisoners/david_hicks_1b.jpg http://www.theage.com.au.nyud.net:8090/ffximage/2005/04/01/jack_narrowweb__200x322.jpg http://network.news.com.au.nyud.net:8090/image/0,10114,5088930,00.jpg

The first guy is David Hicks, the second Joseph Terrence Thomas AKA "Jihad Jack" and the third is Shane Kent. They're all Australians. Muslim converts. Suspicious travel, perhaps a bit of undocumented, unearned cash in the old bank account, that sort of thing. Do a google and see what they've all been up to...