Mark Steyn at the Chicago Sun-Times shares a recent story of how our “affirmative action” society has the logical biases so reversed that it’s becoming abhorrent. See the excerpt below:
Mustaf Jama, a Somali ”asylum seeker” in Britain wanted for the murder of a policewoman, fled the country by taking his sister’s passport, wearing a niqab (the full Islamic head-to-toe get-up that covers everything but the eyes) and passing unhindered through the checkpoints at Heathrow airport…
How about that? It turns out we are profiling after all, but we’re profiling everybody except Muslims. Your wizened l’il ol’ gran’ma on a Yuletide break to London… mutely shuffling through the scanner in their stocking feet. But Britain’s most wanted man is breezing through because he took the precaution of dressing as a Muslim woman. And it would be culturally insensitive to expose them to the same scrutiny as your gran’ma…
Mustaf Jama’s express check-out is the perfect parodic reductio of “security”: The state is willing to inflict pointless bureaucratic discomfort and inconvenience on everyone else, but the demographic group with the most links to terrorism gets to go through the fast-track VIP channel.