Sam Harris says we should profile Muslims

Alright, so I disagree with Sam Harris about free will (kind of). I disagree with him about the safety of fireplaces , and I think his musings on transcendent experiences are kind of nonsensical. But I still love The End of Faith , I thought The Moral Landscape was right on the money, and I agree with him about all sorts of other random stuff (like self-defense ). But with his latest piece , I really have no idea what he's smoking. It must be powerful stuff though, so I hope he's nice enough to share. He begins his thesis by pointing out something we all agree is ridiculous: searching children and/or disabled elderly people as part of airport security. I mean really, how many bomb threats do we think we've thwarted by asking grandma to park her scooter off the side so she can be frisked by a rubber-gloved TSA agent? He then proceeds to argue, unconvincingly, that profiling is okay – specifically, Muslims. Because, y'know, a non-Muslim jihadist is an oxymoron, and e