A telling incident provides an update on the state of racial profiling in US customs procedure, as carried in an insightful article by Sahil Mahtani over at the excellent City Journal. His piece ends:
Putting aside questions of the system’s merit, one can at least say that Khan’s experience was utterly predictable. Americans have decided that they want to keep a tight watch on potential terrorists and are doing so partly by monitoring Muslim travelers. Muslims, for their part, find this humiliating, because it suggests that they are a heightened security risk (which is certainly true statistically). Neither reaction should come as a surprise. The Khan affair is not an unfortunate cultural misunderstanding, but rather a case of cultures understanding one another perfectly—and not liking what they see
What do we think?
(Oh, and extra kudos to City Journal for the article title's Star Trek reference :))
