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by tsomctl 1559 days ago
9/11 shows what happens when those weirdos are intelligent and get some funding.
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Which is why the secret service started to profile all the Muslims located in the US as potential threats.

The big question that security experts and social researcher ask is if such profiling do anything to actually reduce the number of terrorists attacks, and if it is cost effective compare to just regular investigative police work.

There is also a portion of the population that dislike profiling of religious/political views, and view profiling as a slippery slope towards authoritarianism.