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August 10, 2004

P R O F I L I N G  -  R I G H T  O R  W R O N G

Please take a moment, reflect back, and take the following Multiple Choice test ... no need to keep score. The events actually happened.

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
a. Olga Corbitt
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzeneger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year-old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
6. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Over three thousand people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

Don't see a pattern here to justify profiling? The majority of Muslims around the world believe we are evil and vow to destroy the Western World and especially the United States. There has been no outcry from among rank and file Muslims regarding this declaration of war upon us. The overwhelming majority of their clerics openly support this declaration of war. These people see us as a threat to their way of life. Our destruction is their most fervent wish. Tradational American tolerance and our belief in "religious freedom" or the lack of it, as the case may be, has blinded us to the nature of the threat facing us. The Muslim world is bent on our destruction and we don't really believe them.

Americans awoke to the danger when the Japanese killed 2,000 Americans at Pearl Harbor. Muslim male extremists, mostly between the ages of 17 and 40, killed over 3,000 Americans and Americans still don't really believe we are at war. Americans, by and large, believe these acts of violence are isolated acts by a few extremists.

A Democratic President called for a declaration of war after 2,000 Americans were killed at Pearl Harbor. The country, including Republicans, supported him. A Republican president says we are at war after 3,000 Americans are killed on 9/11 and a large part of the country doesn't believe him and an overwhelming majority of Democrats, but not all, play politics with his efforts to protect them.

Liberals, the ALCU, judges that legislate from the bench, news media organizations, Hollywood celebrities and their like, need to convince me that elderly grandmothers, little kids, protestant clerics, wheelchair-bound individuals, and Jewish rabbis are suicide bombers or are preparing to fly planes into crowed areas before I will concede that profiling is wrong.