More so in recent times due to the horrific events of September 11th, the controversy of racial profiling has been one of the many arguments between conservatives and liberals. Liberals state that racial profiling is racist and moraly wrong. They also point out to what racial profiling could lead to, such as intermant camps. Conservatives point out that it is more important to use “commen sense” then to be politicaly correct. But both sides of the argument are missing an important point.

At 9:03 on April 19, 1995 a bomb inside a rental truck exploded destroying the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City killing 168 people and wounded 500 others in what was the worst act of terrorism to that date on American soil.

The terrorist however was not a middle eastern muslim man, he was a white, all-american boy named Timothy McVeigh, who could very well have been the boy next door.

And we would be making a mistake to only profile one race. By only profiling Middle Eastern men, we are making it that easy for the next Timothy McVeigh to slip through and kill another 168 people, maybe more. Not only that, but terrorist are not dumb people, if we where to racial profile only middle eastern men, Islamic terrorist would relize this. For this leads to another mistake that the conservatives have made, if they are worried about Islamic terrorist, then it is not racial profiling they should support, but rather relgion profiling, for Islam is not a race, it is a religion.

And that is what both sides do not relize in their arguments on racial profiling. They do not relize that to profile base on race would be a big mistake. To even suggest it would be racist at heart. To profile only one race in order to stop terrorism you are saying that only that race would ever commit an act of terrorism. But that is not true, terrorism is not committed by

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