Arabic Profiling

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So often In society you see other races being profiled for no reason besides how they look, this mostly applies for arabic people and people of arabic descent with profiling at an airport 42 times more likely than a white person. But the real problems are not the arabic people we profile but the white and other less likely ethnicities that pass through the airports not being profiled and blowing people up with the bombs they brought with them.Like the Oklahoma City Bomber,which was white and was standing between two arabic people which both got profiled, but, not him. Just like Abigail in the crucible when she would blame good upstanding women instead of telling everyone what she has done in the woods and getting down with John Proctor. The Oklahoma City Bomber (Timothy McVeigh) sought revenge against the federal government for its handling of the Waco Siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing. As well as for the …show more content…
It may be hard for the scared Americans to communicate the source of this fear, but it exists especially In recent years, But Islamophobia existed before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but it increased in frequency and notoriety during the past decade. The Runnymede Trust in the U.K., for example, identified eight components of Islamophobia in a 1997 report, and then produced a follow-up report in 2004 after 9/11 and the initial years of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. This was an irrational way to assume that all arabs are going to plan a terrorist attack on us. It's proven that arab-americans stop 2/5ths of the attacks by finding out Al-Qaeda’s plans, in the crucible everyone was scared of witches and if someone did it like you then they could blame you as a witch and the court would hang

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