''If terrorists even perceive that scanners will work, they take the next logical step and conceal explosives in their body cavities,” Stanley writes. “Al Qaeda has already used this technique; in September a suicide bomber stowed a full pound of high explosives and a detonator inside his rectum.''
The hysteria has begun.
With the attempt to bring down that Northwest jet flying into Detroit on Christmas, the urge to profile Muslims and demonize Islam is becoming irresistible for some—especially those on Fox.
On Sunday, retired General Thomas McInerney said, “We have to use profiling. And I mean be very serious and harsh about the profiling. . . .“If you are an 18-28 year-old Muslim man, then you should be strip searched.” Since there are a couple hundred million people in that category, this would make strip-searching at airports an interminable exercise.
McInerney didn’t make any effort to hide his hatred of the entire religion of Islam, which he called “an ideology, not a religion.”
The general is no theologian, but his crude response is quite popular, I’m afraid.
Sarah Palin, after the Fort Hood murders, said the military had fallen victim to “political correctness” and instead should “profile away.”
Others on the right have weighed in, also, as Think Progress has noted.
Newt Gingrich said he was all for it.
Radio host Mike Gallagher put it crudely: “There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.” http://www.progressive.org/wx010410.html