Muslim Woman On Board Flight #253 Changes Her View On Profiling of Muslims

You know, it's interesting ... when you have a brush with death, you're position on things changes. A muslim woman on board Northwest flight #253 has now come out IN FAVOR OF profiling muslims for airline security. Ummm...prior to being on that flight, Hebba Aref, was solidly against any profiling of muslims and in fact she was adamant about any bias towards muslims in America. But things change when your life flashes before your eyes in the face of a jihad attack.

From the article at The Investigative Project on Terrorism:

Aref, who has been an advocate of privacy rights and an opponent of profiling in the past, was one of the passengers aboard Northwest flight 253 when a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to detonate explosives he had smuggled aboard the flight in his underwear.. She says the experience caused her to change her beliefs about what is necessary to keep passengers safe.
In an interview Aref said that she now "acknowledges the fact that there has to be attention paid to Muslims." Aref also hopes that in the future "body scans will be mandatory." She explained that "balanced against national security, it's worth the invasion of privacy."

Perhaps the entire leadership council of CAIR should have been on that flight...would that have changed some of their rhetoric? Oh wait, my bad, they probably knew all about that attack.

Brush with Terror Changes Muslim Woman's View of Profiling

Hebba Aref, one of the two women asked to change seats at a 2008 Obama rally because she was wearing a hijab and former board member for the Muslim Students' Association (MSA) at UM- Dearborn, is now advocating security over privacy and profiling for air travel checks.
Aref, who has been an advocate of privacy rights and an opponent of profiling in the past, was one of the passengers aboard Northwest flight 253 when a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, attempted to detonate explosives he had smuggled aboard the flight in his underwear.. She says the experience caused her to change her beliefs about what is necessary to keep passengers safe.
In an interview Aref said that she now "acknowledges the fact that there has to be attention paid to Muslims." Aref also hopes that in the future "body scans will be mandatory." She explained that "balanced against national security, it's worth the invasion of privacy."