{"id":431078,"date":"2010-03-15T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011351889_nabbingjihadjane.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-15T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:46:16","slug":"nabbing-jihad-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/431078","title":{"rendered":"Nabbing Jihad Jane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Profiling \u2018Middle Eastern men\u2019 effective counterterrorism measure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Predictably, Leonard Pitts Jr. uses the arrest of Colleen LaRose, aka Jihad Jane, to advance the politically-correct notion that all ethnic profiling is wrong [\u201cEthnic profiling and Jihad Jane,\u201d Opinion, March 14].<\/p>\n<p>It was inevitable that terrorists would tap people not fitting the description of, as Pitts wrote, \u201cswarthy, bearded young men with Middle Eastern accents and exotic headgear.\u201d Still, the vast majority of terrorists are, generally speaking, Middle Eastern Muslim males between the ages of 20 and 40 \u2014 and no amount of wishful thinking can change that. This may not be the case in the future, but in the meantime, isn\u2019t it simply pragmatic to more closely scrutinize \u2014 not harass or intimidate \u2014 those fitting the profile?<\/p>\n<p>Think of it this way: If police were looking for a bank robber described as in his late 30s, six feet tall, weighing about 185 pounds with dark brown hair and I was in the area, I would expect law enforcement to take a closer look at me because I fit that description.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Pitts\u2019 contention that we depend on profiling for our safety is absurd; profiling is but one of many tools used in the battle against Islamic terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Brett Davis, Port Orchard<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profiling \u2018Middle Eastern men\u2019 effective counterterrorism measure Predictably, Leonard Pitts Jr. uses the arrest of Colleen LaRose, aka Jihad Jane, to advance the politically-correct notion that all ethnic profiling is wrong [\u201cEthnic profiling and Jihad Jane,\u201d Opinion, March 14]. It was inevitable that terrorists would tap people not fitting the description of, as Pitts wrote, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}