muninnhuginn | Yusuf Islam piece

From the LA Times, and kindly pointed out by TomPaine.com: Something Bad Has Begun (registration required [free]).

The central paragraphs after his description of his apprehension on the plane fascinate:

God almighty! Is this the same planet I'd taken off from? I was devastated. The unbelievable thing is that only two months earlier, I had been having meetings in Washington with top officials from the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives to talk about my charity work. Even further back, one month after the attack on the World Trade Center, I was in New York meeting Peter Gabriel and Hillary Rodham Clinton at the World Economic Forum!
Had I changed that much? No. Actually, it's the indiscriminate procedure of profiling that's changed. I am a victim of an unjust and arbitrary system, hastily imposed, that serves only to belittle America's image as a defender of the civil liberties that so many dearly struggled and died for over the centuries.

It rather points up the monstrous stupidities imposed by short-sighted leviathan organisations: too blunt an instrument tardily and obtusely wielded. Regardless of what Mr Islam says, there was plenty of time post September 11th to--what's the term?--embed more terrorists in the states before profiling was implemented.

Maybe I should hide this, not post, in case I ever want to visit the US again. After all, I'm basically supporting terrorism here, aren't I?

Even if it's one who makes inflammatory statements like

I am a man of peace, and I denounce all forms of terrorism and injustice; it is simply outrageous for anyone to suggest otherwise. The fact that I have sympathy for ordinary people in the world who are suffering from occupation, tyranny, poverty or war is human and has nothing to do with politics or terrorism.