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Sorry I didn't spell it out.
There is no correlation that I can see between being watchful of 'Muslimy' people on planes and telling children to say hi to old men in trenchcoats 'behind your back.' Plus, it still assumes that these people are inherently more dangerous than others because of the way they look, in particular due to the clothes they are wearing. I really am sorry to keep using the word 'fool' to describe these things, but it is foolish. If anything a person could open themselves up to more danger by not being observant of real threats.
I am a watchful person. I don't walk around in a blissful state trustful of everyone I see. Sometimes I encounter people that I (on an instinctive level) don't want to be around. But I haven't found that be a racial or ethnically specific phenomena. If you allow paranoia or irrational fear to replace your own instincts you only open yourself up to 1) unwarranted stress and 2) like I said, missing real threats.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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