Really...?
Because we all know racial profiling or discrimination doesn't exist in Europe.
I'm an International Affairs Major at a international College in Brussels and it's very interesting to hear what kind of bs non-europeans have to deal with. A friend from Sierra Leone and her mother can't find a new new house simply bc they are black, a Canadian friend (she's dark skinned) couldn't travel to the UK bc her passport expired while that didn't seem to matter for a white girl from the US who did the same thing. They admitted she didn't fit the "profile" so she was allowed to enter the UK. A landlord in Brussels proudly told me of his policy of not renting to Muslims and Africans. I could go on for hours...
I never said it didn't. I would say it is less common in Europe.
The difference is we are honest about the blurred boundaries of security and personal liberties. We don't wave this flag of freedom over everything else. Just days ago US members were claiming France and other EU countries were on a slide into fascist regimes because of hate speech laws.
I just think there is a major dislocation between American ideology, and reality. The freedoms and equalities claimed to be present, at times, seem to be nothing more than patriotic propaganda, paper, not substance. To quote a quote made by another member:
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
Can you say that is anywhere near true in these times?
Your friend from Sierra Leone, where is she trying to get a house? Many countries are apt to keeping council/government housing schemes for local or EU citizens. Also, regarding getting into the country with an expired passport, the work of foreign embassies comes into play there, not race. The US girl must have gotten very lucky and had a hand getting into the country. You'd struggle to get into any country with an expired passport, regardless of race. Point of origin may lend a hand in how likely you are to get through certain countries, but that isn't a question of race.
I'm sure you could go on for hours, doesn't change the point that the US Constitution & Bill of Rights are seeming more and more like a paper tigers in terms of actual power.
Well, that's because you've got that Northern Ireland situation going on. I don't believe the same could be said for the rest of Europe, except the recent Norwegian atrocity.
That may be, but it highlights that it isn't isolated to one faith, let alone one race. Look at Richard Reid, he wasn't middle eastern. What about Timothy McVeigh?
With the apparent increase in religious radicalism with some faiths has seen the increase with others. Various other far rights of different faiths seem to be on the rise, and I'm willing to bet that Norway isn't going to be the only case of it's kind that we see. (heck, the last general election in the UK saw a massive increase in votes for a notorious far-right political party with known fascist and racist ideals, which I find more worrying than any potential terrorism).
I'll agree that the woman with her blog is probably hamming it up a bit (as I said in my OP, "If it is real . . ."). As for racial profiling being useful, they just profiled two Indian men, who would most likely be Hindu, generally not a group who fit into the western terrorist profile.
). Also, the guys who were checking our train tickets in the US, had guns 
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