Summary Of Jack Jenkins Anti-Muslim Profiling At Airports

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There should not be any types of racial or religious profiling in airports to make an individual feel discriminated. The general argument made by Jack Jenkins in his work, Anti-Muslim Profiling At Airports Goes Beyond The TSA, is that American Muslims have had difficulties in airports by being frisked for looking Muslim and speaking Arabic. Jenkins’ claim that, “... two Palestine-Americans were barred from boarding a plane in Philadelphia when a fellow passenger complained the pair made her uncomfortable because they were conversing in Arabic”(Jenkins). In the passage, Jenkins is stating that the two Palestinian-Americans were being denied from boarding the plane because of the language they spoke. Also, the two Palestinian-Americans made