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He specifically said the homeland security started to talk to him in hindi and referred to himself as Americanised so if you have two atoms of common sense you'll understand the man looks Indian, Pakistani, or anything between middle east and India.

Now you can just open Wikipedia and have a look at biggest terrorist attacks on US soil, and attacks numbers during ramadan and realise what I said is simply true. Unless you're convinced 9/11 and the Orlando terrorist attacks were inside jobs of course...

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> Unless you're convinced 9/11 and the Orlando terrorist attacks were inside jobs of course...

Ramadam 2001 started on Nov 16th

The deadliest mass shooting since the Greenwood Massacre 100 years ago was the Las Vegas one in October 2017, committed by a white male. Ramadan was in June that year.

Indeed the vast majority of mass shootings in the developed world are committed by white Americans.

If you actually read books on terrorism you'd know it is about ideology, a political cause or movement.

The Las Vegas mass shooter had absolutely none of those but yeah just keep making things up.

Most recent terrorist attack in the US was the 2019 El Paso attacks, which was a White American Male who killed 23 people

Before that another white american male in Poway (and an attack on a mosque earlier than that), another in the Pittsburgh synagogue, the Blaze Bernstein shooting, and if you don't include the ones where nobody died - the mail bombing attempts aimed at people like Obama and Biden

One thing all these terrorist attacks on american soil have in common? The perpetrator was a white american male.

This doesn't mean that all white american males are terrorists, but if we were to take the attitude that many have towards Muslims, white american males are at best supporters of terrorism.

> One thing all these terrorist attacks on american soil have in common? The perpetrator was a white american male.

I do not see why you introduce the race issue here. All the terrorist attacks in the USA after 1995 (last unabomber kill) have been performed by far-right extremists, and this includes islamists and american conservative nationalists. Terrorism in america is clearly a matter of politics, not of race.

> I do not see why you introduce the race issue here.

The gist of the article is that the person was selected for this treatment because he wasn't white

The gist of the post was that's fine, because all terrorists are brown

The accuracy is that if you wanted to select people based likely to commit a terrorist attack in the US on appearance, you're looking for

1) Male

2) White

3) American

Clearly I don't think that means all White Male Americans are terrorists, but that highlights the absurdity of the anti-muslim movements that balooned 20 years ago and are still prevalent in western discourse.

So the only cause they had to detain him was that he was the wrong colour. Reminds me of that that scene in Family Guy with the colour chart.

How many of those were by Indian terrorists?

He was arrested because Indians and Pakistani/other Muslims from countries of the area people are very similar looking. And in that region of the world attacks are up during ramadan.

> you can just open Wikipedia

> biggest terrorist attacks on US soil,

Ok. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States

What you said, "during ramadan terrorist attacks are up significantly", does not line up with the source you asked to look at. Also what does "looks Indian, Pakistani, or anything between middle east and India." even mean? You do realize the spectrum of that population range envelopes the entirety of the human race.

It's funny because the very link you pasted illustrates perfectly that in the last 30 years middle easterners and Muslims are hugely over represented among the deadliest attacks.

Ah yes, let's pretend you can't tell someone is from south Asia or Caucasian.

> Ah yes, let's pretend you can't tell someone is from south Asia or Caucasian.

First of all, you previously included the Middle East. And yes, I would not be able to determine ethnicity with certainty given the significant variation. Would you define Jason Mantzoukas as Caucasian? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JtamJmtc0g

That's precisely why stopping someone is not a conviction by court. It's just a step to check that the individual doesn't have any forbidden materials in his clothing.

> Ah yes, let's pretend you can't tell someone is from south Asia or Caucasian.

Its not about the way people look, its about their belief, Islam prohibits very seriously about blasphemy and that's why even the intelligent people can not help but comply. The same is not true about other religions.

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