[Gondring]

Another reason to bar them from flying.

Who...the living?

Humayun Saqib Muazzam Khan
Born United Arab Emirates
Pakistani heritage

NOT Terrorist... told his men to "hit the dirt" and stopped suicide bombers himself

John Phillip Walker Lindh
Born in USA (Washington, DC)
Baptized (Roman Catholic Church)
Raised in USA (Maryland and California)

BAD GUY!
Joined the Taliban

Ayman Abdelrahman Taha
Sudanese-born, son of Abdel Rahman and Amal Ali Taha


GOOD Guy... US Special Forces, doctoral candidate UMass.

Richard C. Reid
British citizen, born in south London
British mother, Jamaican father

TERRORIST
Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) [same high-explosive reported for the Detroit incident, a type favored by many terrorist instructors and discussed in this post] with a triacetone triperoxide (TATP) detonator was found in his shoe after was caught trying to blow up the plane he was on.

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan
Son of Feroze Khan

NOT Terrorist...

Age 14 on 9/11
Enlisted immediately after high-school graduation, wanting to show that Muslims aren't all fanatics.

Here's a tough one...
"James Michael Ahearn"

Watch out...trick question, with that Irish name...



But... Muslim!
And another of our fallen.

So while these examples might make it seem like you can profile and find bad guys by looking for non-Muslim names and appearances, it turns out that a small fraction of Muslims actually are terrorists, believe it or not, and some non-Muslims actually aren't!

Maybe anyone not under a white marble headstone should be suspect, eh?

And I suppose you want all guns banned because some are misused...

[sam_paine]

Great post. Needs to be repeated on more threads.

[La Lydia]

Of course you couldn’t have known this, but I have posted over and over that they should not be allowed on flights coming into this country. You CAN profile and find bad guys. You have fewer chances of success if you don’t. We are already profiling every day, they just don’t talk about it. We don’t have to look as carefully at Fins as we do at Saudis and Egyptians. At the least, anyone who has ever been anywhere near Yemen should be barred from boarding a plane bound for the United States. There is no universal, inalienable right to travel here. Oh, and your examples are the exceptions, not the rule. Everything I know about the rule I learned on 9/11. IT IS NOT PREJUDICE AND PARANOIA IF THEY REALLY ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU.

[Lurker]

Sorry. It ain't worth the risk. Let 'em go back to the countries of their births and fight the jihadis there.

No more islamic immigration. Period.