Should U.S. Airports Use Racial And Religious Profiling?
Topics: Religion, U.S., World
Public Release Date: November 22, 2010
On Christmas Day, 2009, twenty-three-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 using explosives hidden in his underwear. A string of missed opportunities and errors by government security agencies culminated in what President Obama would declare a “systemic failure.” Is scanning everyone with expensive, high-tech equipment the best use of limited resources? Or should we use the information that we have—the knowledge that, while not all Muslims are terrorists, most terrorists are Muslim.
ARGUING YES:
Robert Baer: Author of ‘Sleeping with the Devil’ and ‘See No Evil’
Deroy Murdock: Syndicated columnist at Scripps Howard News
Asra Q. Nomani: Author of “Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam”
ARGUING NO:
Hassan Abbas: Quaid-i-Azam Professor at SIPA, Columbia University
Debra Burlingame: Co-Founder of the 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, and Keep America Safe
Michael Chertoff: Former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
MODERATOR-IN-CHIEF:
John Donvan: Emmy award-winning journalist