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| WHY RACIAL PROFILING DOESN'T WORKRacial profiling can never be as effective as proportionate, rational policing and security measures.
Using racial or religious profiling to counter terror threats is not only unfair, it is also counter productive. Such profiling is discriminatory and an affront to human rights values. It runs the risk of alienating certain sections of society and threatening community cohesion.
Aside from this, Liberty believes that such un-targeted policies are ineffective and can obscure those who are a real threat.
Profiling of suspects should be based on intelligence and real suspicion, not skin colour, name or dress code. Whether on the street or at the terminal, suspicious behaviour is a sensible basis for enhanced checking by security professionals; race or religion is not.
 | Muriel DegauqueA white Belgian woman from Charleroi who converted to Islam. On November 9, 2005 she committed a suicide car bomb attack against a U.S military convoy near Baghdad. |
 | Nicky ReillyA white British man from Plymouth who converted to Islam. He attempted to detonate a nail bomb in the toilets of an Exeter restaurant in May 2008. Reilly, who has Aspergers syndrome and a mental age of 10, was given a life sentence in January 2009. |
| Andrew IbrahimA teenage former public school boy from Bristol, with a Christian Egyptian father and English mother. He was jailed in 2009 for plotting a terrorist attack. |
| Adam GadahnA white US Citizen from California, Gadahn converted to Islam. Considered to be an al-Qaeda spokesman, he was charged with treason in the US in 2006 and is wanted by the FBI. |
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