Increasing hysteria

This article was published in iViews 6 January 2010

With the attempt to bring down that Northwest jet flying into Detroit on Christmas, the urge to profile Muslims and demonize Islam is becoming irresistible for some-especially those on Fox.

On Sunday, retired General Thomas McInerney said, "We have to use profiling. And I mean be very serious and harsh about the profiling. . . ."If you are an 18-28 year-old Muslim man, then you should be strip searched." Since there are a couple hundred million people in that category, this would make strip-searching at airports an interminable exercise.

McInerney didn't make any effort to hide his hatred of the entire religion of Islam, which he called "an ideology, not a religion."

The general is no theologian, but his crude response is quite popular, I'm afraid.