The Obama administration announced Sunday citizens of fourteen countries will be subjected to intense screening at airports worldwide, including full body pat-down and physical inspection of property. The list of countries targeted are Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. All passengers flying from these countries will also face increased inspection. Nawar Shora of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee criticized the new rules. He said, “This is extreme and very dangerous. All of a sudden people are labeled as being related to terrorism just because of the nation they are from.” Some advocates of racial profiling have suggested even more extreme measures.

Retired Air Force General Tom McInerney on Fox News: “We have got to go to very, very strict screening, and we have to use profiling. And I mean be very serious and harsh about the profiling. If you are an eighteen- to twenty-eight-year-old Muslim man, then you should be strip-searched. And if we don’t do that, there’s a very high probability we’re going to lose an airliner.”