A University of North Carolina student was fired from the college newspaper for writing the following column for the publication. What are your thoughts about airport security?

It’s Sad, But Racial Profiling is Necessary for Our Safety (Click Here to Read Full Column.)

By Jillian Bandes
September 13, 2005

I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport.

I don’t care if they’re being inconvenienced. I don’t care if it seems as though their rights are being violated.

I care about my life. I care about the lives of my family and friends.

And I care about the lives of the Arabs and Arab Americans I’m privileged to know and study with.

They’re some of the brightest, kindest people I’ve ever met.

Tragically, they’re also members of an ethnicity that is responsible for almost every act of terror committed against the West in the recent past.