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My point is that I think racial profiling and discrimination are two differant things. If their quality of life is significantly reduced by the racial profiling, then I think I would refer to that as discrimination. But being aware of differant ethnicities, and conducting a polite investigation of what *could* have been a disasterous situation, I can not find fault with. Starting a fight, tossing them out of the game, arresting them, that would all be unacceptable.
Politing and discreetly asking them what their business there was, and moving them to (probably) similar seating elsewhere, and offering an escort... How can any of that really be offensive? It was for the most part I have to assume determined by the gaurds that they were *probably* not a threat, but how could they know? I think they reacted in the most nuetral way they could, while still displacing any immediate, and potential threat.
It is unfortunate that we live in a world where terror is something we have to deal with. But live in this world we do, and as such we have to play by the current rules.
Hey, it could have been worse. Few hundred years ago (say during the crusades) the world was a much less hospitable place. Five muslims in Britian would have been chopped to bits before a single question was asked.
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