Arab Muslims Should Be Profiled In The War On Terror Summary

The Discrimination and Mistreatment of Arab Muslims In his article supporting the profiling of Arab Muslims in War on Terror, Duke’s arguments is convincing in its use of emotional and logical appeal; however, the use of fallacious (Either-or) scare tactics discredits his point of view. Duke expresses strongly that he does support the profiling of Arab Muslims and he uses many different techniques to persuade his readers. Some of those techniques are obvious, yet others are subconsciously done. The writer does make much effort to persuade reader by presenting an either-or option. That profiling may be bad, but if it is done in the correct manor it can be quiet helpful. For example Duke goes on by justify in the following excerpt “Good profiling …show more content…
He first starts off by elaborating on how useful profiling is general with providing many clear examples that one could grasp the concept with ease. Then slowly creeps to terrorism a sensitive topic that gets everyone on his or her toes. Bringing images and ideas to the mind to put the reader on the same page. He presents the reader with first with a relatable situation such as this, “The rates of death from cardiovascular diseases are about 30 percent higher among black adults than among white adults. Cervical cancer rates are five times higher among Vietnamese women in the U.S. than among white women. Pima Indians of Arizona have the highest known diabetes rates in the world. Prostate cancer is nearly twice as common among black men as white men. (Duke, Selwyn)” With those example he was able to not only to capture the people in the US attention, but he also went to other ethnic groups and races. He then smooth his way over with pointing out that knowing the race and ethnicity of the patience could assist with delivering care to the