The New Flying Rules:

As per my previous post (before the new law), the thing happened finally. Strict checking of passengers including carry on luggage and pat downs for 14 countries. Now those countries whose citizens have been singled out for increased scrutiny are crying foul regarding their special treatment. I believe it is a start to racial profiling. Although I am against racial profiling (which I will elaborate later on), but it is a sad fact that most of the high profile terror activities are being conducted by the so called followers of Islam. So we need to check these individuals before they strike us.

But it is also true that this kind of racial profiling (which should not be called racial profiling) will not help in the wrong. It seems that the terrorist are always changing tactics to our responses and they will definitely try to recruit people who are can pass along easily as westerners or other nations. This has already been shown in the case of converted Muslims. Since there are more than 40 Islamic countries, and only 12 listed as “countries of interest” out of 14, it can be said that it is not racial profiling and a kind of selective profiling based on the fact that the countries on it has citizens who are susceptible to militancy. For now it is a good start, but we will need to devise new strategies to make sure that all the intelligence agencies work together and the expanded list of no-fly should be followed strictly.