The UK police are profiling Muslims. But not nearly enough!

This article in -- you guessed it, The Guardian -- and carried in today's South China Morning Post, decries the fact that Muslims are 42 times more likely than the general population to be targets of the Bobbies' anti-terrorism efforts.
Not enough I say!
Given that the number of terrorist acts and plots in this decade, according to Britain's security services,  are running about 100 to one in "favour" of Muslims being the perpetrators, there's not enough profiling....
For profiling makes sense, to all those with any common sense; which doesn't include the bien pensants reporters at the leftie's favourite polemicist, the Grauniad.
PS: The Guardian quotes the percentages of various racial types in the UK vs the percentage that are arrested or searched by the police, attempting to make the point that Muslims are 42 times over-represented.  By the same "logic", there's vast sexism in the system too: for males are ten times the number of prisoners as females, yet in the population they are 49/51.  Some "logic"....

UK police accused of targeting Muslims

Ethnic minorities are 42 times more likely to be stopped under British anti-terrorism powers

The Guardian Updated on May 25, 2011

People from ethnic minorities are up to 42 times more likely than white people to be the target of a British counter-terrorism power which allows the stopping and searching of the innocent yet grants them less rights than suspected criminals, official figures show. Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 allows police to stop people at ports and airports for up to nine hours without the need for reasonable suspicion that they are involved in any crime. The figures have led to accusations that police have resorted to "ethnic profiling", which they deny. British Muslims have given written statements alleging that the police and the security service MI5 are abusing the power by holding people and pressing them into becoming spies. Those stopped have no right to maintain their silence, and failure to answer questions can be a criminal offence. Questioning can begin without a lawyer present and those stopped must pay for one themselves if they want legal representation. The disproportionality faced by ethnic minorities is at its most pronounced where a person is stopped and questioned for over an hour. White people make up 19 per cent of stops, South Asian people 41 per cent, black people 10 per cent and others, including Middle Eastern and Chinese, 30 per cent. South Asians make up 5 per cent of the British population, black people 3 per cent and others 1 per cent. White people make up 91 per cent of the population. One of those stopped, Asif Ahmed, 28, said he was asked to spy after landing at Edinburgh airport. He said he was separated from his wife and taken to a room and told he must answer questions about his beliefs and faith. "They asked if I would like to work with special branch, to keep an eye on the Muslim community in Edinburgh ... They said do it covertly." Ben Bowling, professor of criminology at King's College London, said of the figures: "They lend weight to the view that ethnic profiling is going on." But John Donlon, of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said: "Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is important legislation in support of national security work at ports. The examining officers' code of practice enforces that the examination of a person cannot be based solely on perceived ethnicity or religion. "Activity is intelligence-led and officers deployed at ports do not single out particular ethnic groups for examination."