TRAVEL MONITOR
The shame of profiling
- Published: 19/09/2011 at 08:36 AM
- Newspaper section: Business
It would be interesting to know what the many Thai legal firms headed by American lawyers think of a report this month from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) blasting the use of racial profiling as an anti-terrorism strategy, especially in the travel industry.
Entitled A Call to Courage: Reclaiming Our Liberties Ten Years After 9/11, the report makes clear that numerous US laws and constitutional rights have been violated in the name of fighting terrorism and have hurt the country's image as a much-admired beacon of global freedom.
It calls on US political leaders "to end profiling of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab-American citizens and immigrants, and to speak out against efforts to demonise them".
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About the author
- Writer: Imtiaz Muqbil
- Position: Executive editor of Travel Impact Newswire
