A couple of years ago, I had a conversation with a colleague of mine who is Pakistani. She scoffed at the idea that racial/religious profiling would be a successful tactic in the war on Islamic terror. It was never going to work, she said, because the terror groups would find western looking people to do the terrible deeds. She has also made many bitchy comments about 'flying while being Muslim' and the terrible terrible burden of prejudice against her poor co-religionists.
Now, the one thing that strikes me about the above photo is how... er... non-multicultural it is. Here is a list of the names and ages:
Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27
Assad Sarwar, 24
Tanvir Hussain, 27
Mohammed Gulzar, 26
Ibrahim Savant, 27
Arafat Waheed Khan, 26
Waheed Zaman, 23
Umar Islam, 29
All good English names assuredly. Indeed, how could you ever racially, religiously or age-wise profile these folk? Impossible really. We might as well give up.
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