Religious Profiling Persuasive Essay

Religious profiling is one of those things that seems like the right thing to do, but also seems like the wrong thing to do. In the article “Should We Religiously Profile?” by Ben Shapiro, Ben talks about how religiously profiling someone can cause an innocent person to be wrongly convicted, but also not religiously profiling can lead to a large death toll. Religious profiling either works out well or it ends horribly wrong. There is no escaping the problems religious profiling causes, unless of course a person does not religiously profile someone else. Religious profiling is a lot like judging a book by its cover, the person judging has no clue what the other is like, they just know what they have heard through the grapevine. This is a form of discrimination, people are discriminating against others because of their religion. Ben Shapiro says, “We’re supposed to cave to the fantasy that a religious Muslim reaching out to terrorists over the internet poses no more threat than a Christian visiting a pro-life website” (Shapiro 1). These are not the same thing, comparing terrorist involvement and a pro-life website is religious profiling in itself, Shapiro is saying that Muslim’s religion causes them to talk to terrorists while Christian’s
We are simply respecting another person religion just like we do our own religion. There is no way to tell if someone is a terrorist just by knowing their religion, a person can not accurately assume that because someone is wearing a turban that they are a terrorist. Religious profilers are not lead by logic, but by emotions. Religious profilers do not know how to separate their emotions toward that religion to focus on the fact that the individual they are profiling has nothing to do with terrorism. They go with their hearts not their minds and that can cause a lot of problems for everyone