Jihad Jamie: Racial profiling under scrutiny after second white Islamist arrested
guardian.co.uk / 14-03-2010
The use of racial profiling as a counterterrorism tool has been fatally undermined after a second white American woman was arrested over an alleged Islamist murder plot, critics of the policy said today.
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, 31, a nursing student from Colorado, was detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged conspiracy to kill a Swedish cartoonist. News of her arrest came days after Colleen LaRose, 46, of suburban Philadelphia, was named in a federal indictment for her alleged role in the plot against Lars Vilks, who had offended many Muslims with his portrayal of the prophet Muhammad as a dog.
Paulin-Ramirez, described by her mother as a lonely woman who had "got sucked in" to extremism, was released this weekend without charge. LaRose has been in custody in the US si...
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