Actually 9/11 and subsequent muslim silence contributed to profiling.
Self preservation is still a virtue in my world.
I asked a really, really good muslim friend of mine about the silence from muslims on this issue. My family and his have become so close, he asked me to be Godfather to his children (and he knows I’m a Christian).
“It’s because the U.S. media is controlled by the Jews. On the morning of 9/11, four thousand Jews didn’t show up for work at the World Trade Center”.
I asked him where he got this information.
“It has been all over the place in Egypt”.
I was dumbfounded. I urged him to investigate, because this would be easily verifiable. I have not heard of his results; but the rumor appears to have been born in Lebanon.
My friend is a moderate muslim by anyone’s standard: and that is his thinking.