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Originally Posted by Pierre
we know there are other terrorists out there apart from muslims, we still have the IRA to deal with. Although there is a cease fire IRA persons are still being arrested on terrorist charges, and I'm sure they are closely watched as well.
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Yes, but are *all* Irish people being considered potential terrorists? Is everyone who talks with an Irish accent being targetted?
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It is a fact that if you are looking for a muslim extremist terrorist cell it is likely to be staffed by an ethnic minority, that being muslim extremists.
It's afact you can't get away from
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It is also glib and unhelpful and pointless in this argument. You cannot base a policy targetted at a majority based on the behaviour of a minority.
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Where in the rule book does it say that the amount searches carried out must be proportional to the population spread?
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It doesn't. It does, however, as I quoted above, say there must be reasonable grounds for suspicion and that's *not* just "looking suspiciously Muslim".
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The Guardian quotes a representative of the Islamic Human Rights Commission as saying Ms Blears is "demonising and alienating our community".
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Nope the extremists are doing a fine job of that themselves
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Oh, right, so we should *help* them along by alienating the Islamic community...?!