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But you can't really "racial profile" Muslims. You would have to search everyone. I have a few professors that look like John Walker Lindh. Should security detain them everytime they gather near the bathroom? You know, a majority of the Muslim students at my school are white - and anti-Bush. Should we have them followed? Everyone thinks my Hindu friend is a "terrorist" just because of the way he looks. That's ridiculous. And my roomate (the "Latino" one) occasionally gets mistaken for Pakistani/Hindu. People are ignorant and can't diffrentiate.
Just a couple of months ago, one of NY's Bravest, assaulted someone he racial-profiled - He attacked a Bangladeshi dude cause he thought he looked like Al-Qaida.
Sorry, that's unacceptable. If we resort to these type of tactics, then we indeed have lost.
NYC firefighter assaults immigrant
by Associated Press
12 Sep 2005
Monday, September 12, 2005;
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hours after many New York firefighters gathered to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, a firefighter was arrested for attacking an immigrant worker and telling him he looked "like he's al-Qaeda," police said.
Firefighter Edward Dailey was arrested Sunday afternoon on charges of criminal mischief and felony second-degree assault, Police Sgt. Kevin Farrell said. It had not yet been determined whether the charges would be upgraded to a hate crime, he said.
Dailey, 27, is accused of breaking a piece of Plexiglas off a curbside news stand and throwing it at a 51-year-old man who works there, Farrell said. Dailey had said the man, an immigrant from Bangladesh, looked "like he's al-Qaeda," Farrell said.
The victim, whose arm was cut in the alleged attack, was treated at a local hospital and later released, Farrell said.
A woman who answered the phone at Dailey's home declined to comment.
Dailey was the class valedictorian at his FDNY graduation ceremony last year.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press
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