[Mb-civic] You Can't Fight Terrorism With Racism - Colbert King - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

You Can't Fight Terrorism With Racism

By Colbert I. King
Saturday, July 30, 2005; Page A19

During my day job I work under the title of deputy editorial page 
editor. That entails paying more than passing attention to articles that 
appear on the op-ed page. Opinion writers, in my view, should have a 
wide range in which to roam, especially when it comes to edgy, 
thought-provoking pieces. Still, I wasn't quite ready for what appeared 
on the op-ed pages of Thursday's New York Times or Friday's Post.

A New York Times op-ed piece by Paul Sperry, a Hoover Institution media 
fellow ["It's the Age of Terror: What Would You Do?"], and a Post column 
by Charles Krauthammer ["Give Grandma a Pass; Politically Correct 
Screening Won't Catch Jihadists"] endorsed the practice of using 
ethnicity, national origin and religion as primary factors in deciding 
whom police should regard as possible terrorists -- in other words, 
racial profiling. A second Times column, on Thursday, by Haim Watzman 
["When You Have to Shoot First"] argued that the London police officer 
who chased down and put seven bullets into the head of a Brazilian 
electrician without asking him any questions or giving him any warning 
"did the right thing."

<>The three articles blessed behavior that makes a mockery of the rights 
to which people in this country are entitled.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072901626.html?nav=hcmodule 

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