Here's an example of why

Here's an example of why it's stupid to profile when fighting terrorists.

Remember Oklahoma City? Remember all the radical right wing pseudo Christian organizations out there who the FBI (thankfully!) foils in their attempts at mass murder/terrorism acts? By basing your entire strategy on profiling for Radical Arab Moslems, you're going to miss these white bread, home grown people with truck bombs, Ricin, and god only knows what else. Hey, we haven't caught the person/persons responsible for the 2001 Anthrax letters? I mean, really. We haven't a clue what happened, apparently. And to bias your belief on who did it towards Arabs means that you're just not paying attention. There's a lot of wackos out there.

And if your policy is one of profiling for radical Muslim terrorists, that's just as stupid as profiling for buzz cut, corn fed, angry young men from Idaho or Montana.

It's just bad police tactics.

Oh, and then there's the moral issues. But that's beside the point (apparently).