British Indian councillor backs racial profiling

London: A British Indian councillor in a southeast England township has come out in favour of a controversial British government plan to introduce passenger profiling method at airports that would target Asians.
Buntingford town councillor Surjit Singh Basra has said that people of Asian appearance should accept the measures as 'part and parcel of life' after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and 7/7.
'I do not have an issue with profiling. Some people may have their objections, but I'm happy to abide by it after the attacks of 7/7 and 9/11,' a report in the Royston Mercury newspaper quoted Basra as saying.
Basra's comments came after a top British Muslim policeman warned authorities not to use the passenger profiling method which he described as 'travelling whilst Asian'.
Metropolitan Police chief superintendent Ali Desai had said he supported passenger profiling but not if it is solely based on ethnicity or religion.
20/08/06 Indo Asian News Service/DailyIndia.com, US

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