May 9, 2010

Meet the Press Guest: Extra Screening At Airports May Be Driving Moderate Muslims To Extremism

You might want to sit down for this one...Katty Kay on Meet the Press Roundtable says the extra scrutiny may make people turn towards extremism. This is painful

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KATTY KAY: "The issue of screening of course, is the one that Eric Holder raised and it is whether we say it or not, is happening. I'm sure there is more scrutiny of Pakistani Americans coming into the country then there might be of other Americans coming into the country, it is happening already. Whether that, there's an argument that whether that kind of racial profiling drives people to extremism, I've heard moderate Muslims here in America say to me they have known people moderate, law abiding Muslims who when they felt racial screening when they were at Airports have actually then turned towards extremism"
Katty Kay is a Washington correspondent for the BBC and is a frequent guest on the Chris Matthews Show