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Originally Posted by biznatch
For those who doubt that Muslims get treated differently at airports: my friend has no accent, grew up in the US, wears no distinctive clothing, but for some reason always gets "SSSS" printed on his boarding pass. You can say all you want, it's racial profiling, and it's wrong. |
You can't racial profile a religion. A religion is not a race.
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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
What about profiling in general? I'd argue that profiling is an extremely useful tool. I'd even go on to suggest that you do it every single day of your life.
Throw the word "racial" on the front of it, and it suddenly becomes abhorant.
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Racial profiling is ineffectual and lazy.
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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
I know that Buddhists don't pray, none of them do, but prayer is not in itself the hallmark of religion.
Even Theravada Buddhism has rituals and specific beliefs in regards to the nature and purpose of life that can be quantified as 'supernatural.' I believe this makes it a religion. Not that that's a bad thing. I have great respect for the Buddhist faith. But it is just that, a faith.
Thanks for commenting on this, rb. I wanted to earlier but was waylaid by real time stuff.
We are falling for the boogeyman bit again.
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Buddhism is a religion people. The Dalai Lama is considered a living god. And yes they do "pray". I have been to enough Buddhist temples and have seen them pray. I have seen the prayer wheel.