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Published on January 5, 2005

An Islamic civil rights group has accused the U.S. border patrol of religious profilingafter American Muslims returning from a religious conference were stopped, searched, photographed and fingerprinted becase, as a spokeswoman for Homeland Security explained, the department had information that such conferences could be used by terrorists to promote their cause. Silly border patrol: who needs […]

An Islamic civil rights group has accused the U.S. border patrol of religious profilingafter American Muslims returning from a religious conference were stopped, searched, photographed and fingerprinted becase, as a spokeswoman for Homeland Security explained, the department had information that such conferences could be used by terrorists to promote their cause. Silly border patrol: who needs to concoct a reason like that? Not the border patrol agents who stopped the last Greyhound I rode to remove and search a hapless Asian student who ended up being…a hapless Asian student.

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