Stereotype Alert

I'm in the Dallas airport, awaiting my flight to New York. SOA time in the Big Apple, baby!

On the CNN TVs that are throughout the airport -- side note: brilliant marketing move on CNN's part to cut the deal to be the supplier of a news feed to airports -- they had a story about an arrest of someone associated with the Belfast airport terrorist attack.

Here's the stereotype -- all terrorists seem to look alike. They're all young men, somewhere between 20 and 35-ish or so, with a beard and an angry look on their face.

Now I recognize that not all people who fit that description are terrorists. But still I wonder ... is there a growing perception among the general population of this common "look" of terrorists? And is there perhaps a chance of a movement towards general distrust and discrimination against people who fit this profile?

Is that necessarily a bad thing? Societal pressure used to be a governing force. We've scrubbed it from our discourse for politically correct purposes. I'm wondering if people are coming back around to the realization that all the multi-cultural politically correct stuff is not in our best interest?