According to this piece, not the various police and security agencies in the Western world. Rather it is Muslim terrorists who are responsible for responsible for heightened scrutiny of Muslims during this Crusade Against Jihadi Terror.

Consider the opening anecdote.

A television series I worked on in the 1980s employed an adorable, gentle and handsome researcher called Dermot who was fancied rotten by everyone in the office, and came from Northern Ireland. He travelled back and forth between London and Belfast to see his family by a variety of means, and on almost every journey was stopped, questioned, sometimes searched, when other English passengers were not. He was also, I recall, the only person whose accreditation was questioned and treble-checked when we were issued with press passes to enter a function attended by Princess Diana. Dermot was quiet, polite and unassuming and we were always furious on his behalf. Our producer put it to him that he must hate the British police force for this terrible discrimination. No, he said. He hated the IRA for forcing the police to discriminate against people like him on legitimate grounds of security.

If the many good Muslims in our society -- and around the world -- would feel this sort of outrage at the terrorists rather than at the authorities for looking at those who match the terrorist profile -- young Muslim men of Middle Eastern or East Asian extraction -- then maybe the terrorists could be exposed and eliminated, rendering such scrutiny unnecessary.

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