^^ Middle-aged male? Have you looked at the demographics of the people blowing themselves up in Israel lately? Largely (if not totally) young people, along with quite a few women. Regardless...I think it's foolish to disregard common sense and history in the name of political correctness. It's also foolish to rely on these as a safety measure.
If you rely on profiling, ethnic or otherwise, the bad guys will realize this and quickly work around it. On the other hand, if you make a point of being politically correct...e.g., selecting every 10th person for supplemental inspection, even if that's a white-haired old granny in a wheelchair...then you're wasting limited security resources on low-risk people.
Frankly, if we expect to have both personal freedoms and state-provided security, we're demanding the impossible. It's a balancing act, and regrettably, you've got to have negatives to balance out the positives.
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