Target Profliling
In attempting to solve criminal cases where policing authorities seek out the perpetrator of crimes, they use any tools at their disposal, but the most important one is to try to match the crime to a likely perpetrator. Which means, of course, profiling a malefactor known to have previously committed such crimes, or using a typical profile of a typical type of offender to narrow their search for the perpetrator of a crime.It is then up to the justice system, once the perpetrator has been pin-pointed, brought to arrest and incarceration, to prove the guilt of the individual in question. Good policing and detective work can make the prosecution of malefactors a likelihood in assisting the justice system by having assembled a framework of evidence by which the criminal can be successfully prosecuted.
Most civilians living within a society feel that the procedure is fair and certainly lawful under the system of justice by which their country is regulated. There certainly are times when such target profiling goes awry and innocent people are accused, arrested and jailed for crimes they did not commit. Still, human intelligence informs us that certain types of alienated individuals from specific and often deprived backgrounds are most likely to become a problem to society at large, executing acts of crime for which they must be held to account.
The same type of intelligence that informs civil policing authorities can be reflected in the method0logy and apprehension utilized by other governmental groups, tasked with the prime necessity to protect civilians, countries, public infrastructure, from the ravages of mass criminal acts designed by similarly dissafected individuals and groups against a much larger target. And when the perpetrators' identity becomes obvious through the repeated acts of violence visited upon specific targets, it is reasonable to target those specific profiles for suspicion of espionage, brutal attacks or events leading to mass murder.
Not all Muslims can be thought of as being potential terrorists to be sure, but all of the terrorists that the Western world, as well as the world of Islam has faced of late have certainly been Muslim. Generally young male Muslims with a very particular ax to grind, their vicious acts against their perceived enemies made possible through their successful radicalization brought about by Islamist teachings of hatred against infidels and/or those whose practise of Islam is deemed to be insufficiently fanatical.
So when, in the wake of one successful attack by jihadist-Muslim youth in London, and the timely apprehension of another group seeking similar success, Britain's Muslim leaders claim that such target profiling (which they claim to be racial profiling) is likely to alienate the nation's 1.5 million Muslims, one has the impression that this particular tail is wagging the wrong dog.
What, one must ask, have Britain's Muslim leaders been doing to defuse the radicalization of their youth? Theirs is the real responsibility to ensure that Muslim youth do not become fanatical time-bombs eager to explode, taking with them as many innocent lives as possible.
"If the community is profiled as a community, there will be a backlash and no one is going to co-operate with the police and the authorities, which is important to fight terror," said Abdul Bari, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain.Which statement naturally leads one to suggest there is a total lack of credibility, of honour, of honesty within the Muslin Council of Britain. The council and its illustrious body should be taking ownership of their responsibility to lay to rest the type of Islam that has been rearing its jihadist head throughout the world, and working flat out to negate its impact, to deny it presence, to shield its young and impressionable adherents from its vicious deadliness.
Officials at the Department for Transport in Britain are considering a profiling system to select people behaving suspiciously, who have an unusual travel pattern or a certain ethnic or religious background.Given the background of events of which we speak, which has the world cowering in fear because of the potential of repeated unspeakable acts of mass violence, this seems a fair and workable strategy.
The world would also like to see some real evidence that Abdul Bari and the council which he represents, along with other world Muslim leaders are encouraging their flock to "co-operate with police and the authorities", as this is indeed "important to fight terror".
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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