1.  Before reading "The Necessity of Profiling," what was your opinion on this subject?  Has Mr. Spencer persuaded you to change your mind?  Explain your answers.

2.  Re-read the following 7 statements from the commentary.  For each statement, write whether you agree or disagree and explain your answer.

_______________ "If his name was Joe Smith, we wouldn't be here. His origin and appearance and name condition us to (think), 'Oh my gosh, he's a terrorist.'" (paragraph 2)

_______________ Of course, however unpleasant or politically inconvenient a fact it may be, young Muslim Arab males are responsible for the overwhelming majority of terrorist violence around the world today. (paragraph 3)

_______________ Profiling, of course, is imperfect. Islam is not a race. Adherents of the jihad ideology can be found among all races... (paragraph 4)

_______________ ...it is simply a waste of resources to subject all airline passengers, from grandmothers to toddlers, to equal scrutiny, while refusing to spend more time investigating passengers who come from the group from which most terrorists spring nowadays. (paragraph 4)

_______________ But those [Muslim] communities themselves have to take responsibility for the fact that jihadists have lived and recruited and plotted in their midst, generally with no fear that their coreligionists would turn them in. (paragraph 5)

_______________ ...all too often the wrath of the Muslim communities in America and Britain has been focused on anti-terror efforts and the foreign policy of their governments -- when what is needed instead is an understanding of and tolerance for the need for profiling. (paragraph 5)

_______________ To ignore this [fact that the majority of terrorist attacks were committed by Muslims] is to give up voluntarily the one thing that may make it possible to spot the perpetrators of a terror attack before it happens, and head it off. In other words, it is suicidal. (paragraph 6)

3.  OPTIONAL:  To react to Mr. Spencer's commentary, send him an email at director@jihadwatch.org.
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