The Muslim community has consistently and understandably been upset by “racial profiling”. Yet it exhibits the worst examples of racial profiling itself.
Surely the Muslim definition of “infidel”, and its practical interpretation, is racial profiling at its very worst; that is, all non-Muslims deserve to die because they are non-Muslims.
To emphasise the endemic hypocrisy at play here, one need only examine the practice of Muslim states in the United Nations. When a Muslim state is the centre of attention at the UN, Muslim states generally band together to negate the chastising vote: regardless of the heinousness of the charge. They appear to have a great level of tolerance of dictators, genocide, corruption, suppression and so on when such deeds are committed by Muslim states. The racial profile exhibited here is that all “Muslim countries are right, and that any non-Muslim state that wishes to condemn an act of barbarism, murder or genocide is never right”: a stunning example of racial profiling at its very best (or very worst?)
Most non-Muslims cannot be blamed for using the Muslim’s own observed practices as a standard by which to regard Muslims. If the Muslim community is using their religion as a measure of “universal rightness”, then the rest of the world is understandably (but incorrectly) using that same standard of religion as a measure of “wrongness” when terrorism reigns upon us.
If Muslims want the rest of the world to differentiate between law-abiding, good Muslim citizens and of terrorists, then they must be the first to shun terrorists from within their midst. Only when the world sees the Muslim community admit openly that not all Muslims and not all Muslim countries are blameless (just like all other religions), will the rest of the world accept Muslims unquestioningly. Until that happens, Muslims should not be surprised if they are the subject of racial profiling.