(November 4, 2016 at 3:59 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(November 4, 2016 at 3:39 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Here's one of his blog posts: https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/in-d...-profiling.
I have reread that blog entry just for this occasion. I don't see how you interpreted that as a call for racial profiling, short of confusing Islam with a race. Would you care to provide me with your reasoning in this regard ?
It's this line in particular: "We should profile Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim".
I agree, Islam isn't a race. So then, what do Muslims look like exactly? Sam Harris thinks we should profile people who looks like they could conceivably be Muslim. Now, one could argue that he meant people wearing traditional Muslims dress, however, in a follow up post, he states this:
"Within a few hours of publishing “In Defense of Profiling,” I had lunch with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of my favorite people on earth. (Of course, I told her that I thought she should be profiled at the airport, and we had a good laugh about my “racism.”)"
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an atheist, an ex-Muslim. So she would not be found wearing Muslim clothing. Still, Harris thinks she should be profiled at the airport. Why, he doesn't say, but it seems pretty clear that he's using the term "Muslim" as a placeholder for anyone who looks African/Middle Eastern.
