[Karim]

Rest assured that racial profiling DOES happen all the time. So if that makes you feel safer, there you go. People are always complaining about how easy we are getting it, well we aren’t, we get harassed all the time. There .. rejoice! I have no problem with racial profiling. I know I have nothing to hide, I don’t hate anyone, and I wish peace for everyone. I am also extremely proud of my ethnicity, religion and heritage. If someone wants to discriminate against me for either of them, no problem, it won’t change my mind about anything. But that’s not how every Arab feels. Many are hurt on a level deeper than you can imagine when they get profiled. But that would all be OK if profiling worked. In fact I also want to be safe while flying (imagine that!) and I know terrorists don’t discriminate, they kill more Muslims than anyone else. The problem is they adapt. You will stop all us Semitic-looking types flying? Well, there are blacks and whites in these terrorist organizations. Make it much harder for everyone but those evidently non-threatening? Well, how about they smuggle the explosives in the carry-on of an old white woman? Security needs to be comprehensive if it’s going to work. I pray to God things keep going as well as they have so far.

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Name : Karim, Gender : M, Race : Arab / Middle Eastern, Religion : Muslim, Age : 27, City : Los Angeles, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[Karim]

Just a friendly note, it’s not ‘Islam people’, it’s Muslim people or Muslims. Most Muslims don’t wear turbans at all; turbans are traditional in some countries like Afghanistan, Sudan and Oman. They are virtually unknown elsewhere except among Shiia clergy. And the answer is yes, in countries where they are traditional, they come in all shapes and colors. Some are made of expensive materials and have brand visibility. If it is clearly a high quality turban, it can be a class statement I guess.

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Name : Karim, Gender : M, Race : Arab / Middle Eastern, Religion : Muslim, Age : 27, City : Los Angeles, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

[Karim]

If the question is do Muslims believe that infidels should be killed because they are infidels, the answer is a categorical no. Not even the terrorists market their crimes as such. This whole paradigm is basically a Western projection based on a handfull of British ‘Muslim’ ultra-extremists who are even beyond Al-Qaeda. To organizations involved in the Palestinian-Israeli and Lebanese-Israeli conflict, Islam is a context, a background, rather than a cause or active player. Before there were ‘Islamists’ doing these acts there were communists and Pan-Arab secularists doing the same. As far as Al-Qaeda is concerned they try to rationalize their actions by saying they are in self defence (most Muslims approve of killing in defense) because Muslims have been under attack from the West for over a century. The argument was mostly lost in the Arab world because basic Islamic principles forbid targetting civilians in war. But to be honest, some people still cheered on 9/11. But even these people stopped when Al-Qaeda started targeting hundreds of Muslims in Muslim countries.

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Name : Karim, Gender : M, Race : Arab / Middle Eastern, Religion : Muslim, Age : 27, City : Los Angeles, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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