The recent failed assassination attempt by an al-Qaida has revived the debate profiling predictable old. The thrust of the conservative position on this matter was generally should not worry about the feelings of the people, when lives are at stake. The Liberals, meanwhile, generally say that profiling violates civil liberties of the people is immoral and generally.I would introduce a new argument against the profile that I have not heard discussed by Talking Heads. It is not about feelings, and it is not freedom.

This is the most important question of all: is it really effective? Because, after all,, plastic surgery facial, if this fails, then any discussion of its effect on the feelings of the people, or his respect for constitutional rights is meaningless.What is profiling and it will work? The basic idea is that we should profile projections for the airport, the separate and special attention to persons who meet the profile of the type of people who are there to kill young Arab Muslim extremists. The question arises, how can we say it is a young Arab Muslim and who is not? Well, obviously, the answer comes, it is through such things as their skin and hair color, name, religion, and even clothing.

Let's see if profiling on one of these bases can really work on long term.Skin color: Arabs are generally brown leather. But for millions of people from Latin America, Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and European origin. How can we tell who is Arab and who is a Brazilian? It is not based on skin color or hair color (all the people who have dark hair, so). Name: There are certain names, like Abdul or Muhammad Abdullah, who is of Arab origin, and are adopted by many non-Muslim Arabs. But there are two problems: (1) many non-Muslims (Arab Christians) and non-Arabs (Muhammad Ali, the boxer) have these types of names, many Muslims do not have names of this type, and (2), one can say that the intent of terrorism will have zero qualms about the damage legally change his name, but a harmless way is just this policy, over time, inevitably draw attention away from threats to safety, innocent.

Religion: the threat is people who are Muslims. Fair enough, but the vast majority of people who travel and who are Muslims, not a threat. In particular, how can we tell who is Muslim and who is not? Are responsible for security to ask "the name and passport, please" to all passengers? Although such an absurd policy should be implemented, we can not count on real terrorists to lie, and innocent Muslims to tell the truth, once diverted to security and against the innocent guilty? Clothing: Many Muslims wear certain types of clothing characteristic.

And there is nothing to stop a terrorist from dressing as a Westerner means, right? Traits: we are really digging now. But let's say we have the idea that Arab societies have certain characteristic facial features (the structure of the face, the shape of the nose or nose, etc..) Problems: (1) in the absence of highly paid experts in this field in post many airports, which is necessarily very subjective and basically impossible to operate, (2) a huge number of Arab people do not share this "feature" typical face, in fact, can be viewed as an average person in the eye inexperienced European (and even the trained eye ), (3) tried to remember that the terrorism threat is our last one multiracial and multiethnic, the boy was a black African, (4) all the facial features that have been identified are certainly shared by people who are not Arabs (consider Jews, Greeks or Italians, whose genes have similar roots in the Mediterranean region is greater).

Ow Profiling not help us to see is not effective, reliable way to eliminate the innocent and the guilty. Feelings be damned. If there were a safe way to airport security personnel to take innocent civilians safer through profiling, saying that "no matter the political correctness, we will define the priorities in order." But I have shown that there is no