Al-Qaeda looking for non-Arabs: is this the death knell to the call for...

[_Jumper_]

...racist profiling?

[madrchsod]

1. trying to sign up

some of the extreme white power groups across the world? those two have alot in common,remember one of our whitepower guys was pissed because the white people aren`t as brave as the arabs. who blew up the building in oklahoma? they weren`t arabs,were they? al-qaeda may have some success but i don`t think they will convert many.

[_Jumper_]

2. Muslim converts tend to be very fundie--they are recruting them

They already have already used a blond-haired blue-eyed Frenchman in their Morocco attacks and we all know about Richard Reid, Jose Padilla, and John Walker.

There are 100,000 Muslim converts in France. All Al-Qaeda needs is a handful to cause trouble. Do you believe they can't find a few fundies among Muslim converts in the West and Muslims in East Asian and African countries?

[Devils Advocate NZ]

3. Don't forget European Muslims...

like this one:

Perhaps most telling about the minds of those who trained here is a document found at the camp. "I am interested in suicide operations," wrote Damir Bajrami, a 24-year-old ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, on his entry application in April 2001. "I have Kosovo Liberation Army combat experience against Serb and American forces. I need no further training. I recommend (suicide) operations against (amusement) parks like Disney."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/11/26/cover.htm

This was a document found at an "Al Qaeda" camp in Afghanistan. Remember, the KLA was the terrorist group that the US supported in Kosovo when it bombed Serbia.

Edited to add mising link.

[Pontus]

14. Now that's just great -- thanks General Clark!

[MikeGalos]

12. Nothing new

the loony tunes right in the US has been allied with radical Islamic groups for a few years now.

Check with Southern Poverty Law Center's HateWatch or the Anti-Defamation League's Extremism pages for a fairly long history.

[markus]

4. Oh, my god, it's Cat Stevents with a knapsack!

Run!

I think all Muslin converts will be highly suspect after the episode of the chaplain.

[_Jumper_]

5. Yes but they can't be identified

If the public becomes aware of this instead of looking over their shoulder at Arabs and perceived Arabs they will fear everyone. We will have paranoia similar to that during the Cold War.

I am a perceived Arab and Muslim. I hate Al-Qaeda but I hope the association of Al-Qaeda with "Arabs" ceases as a result of this news.

[DuctapeFatwa]

6. No

[_Jumper_]

7. Be more optimistic

;)

[DuctapeFatwa]

10. you can take a bic lighter onto the plane today

boxcutters were banned on planes in 1994.

"...verily, in that is a lesson to those endowed with sight..."

Koran 24:44

[Robb]

11. I don't know if you've been called cool lately...

...but that was about the coolest post I've seen on DU in awhile. :thumbsup:

[DuctapeFatwa]

13. Wow, Thanks! That's quite a compliment :)

:hi:

[MadHound]

8. Another excuse for this administration

To call for the populace to spy on each other. TIPS redux, except now in a bigger, beefier, badass version. I can hear the promos now, with Ed McMahon cheerfully calling for all good Americans to keep an eye out on each other, for you never know now who is going to be Al-Qaeda.

Just more acceleration added to this country's descent into facism.

[jmm]

9. We always knew

one didn't have to be arab to be a terrorist, but I doubt the people pushing for racial profiling will give up the opportunity to harrass Arabs or any other swarthy people.

[lostnfound]

15. Source? And: seems like Central America would be ripe for picking

after the SOA-trained goons have brutalized the rebels etc