Issue date: 9/21/07 Section: News and Opinion

Perhaps there was a bit of racial profiling in this case. Perhaps if it had been my roommate and me traveling down the same road, pulled over for the same reason, the officers never would have searched the car. But, what if the officers involved had been worried about being accused of racial profiling and just decided not to search the car? What would have happened? Maybe nothing. Maybe these two young, Muslim students would have really headed straight for the beaches of North Carolina (like they finally agreed upon to tell the cops) to shoot their fireworks and celebrate Mohamed's birthday. However, there are a lot of "maybes" and "what ifs" in that paragraph.



To me it is nothing less than a shame that a story like this raises less alarm to the national media, particularly near the sixth anniversary of such a tragedy, than a Republican Senator's private behavior would take precedence in attention and coverage than the possibility of having to mourn another catastrophic loss in this young century.

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