There’s been a absolute crap-storm that has blown up in both the media and among members of the House Of Commons over the comments made by the boss of Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, about the need to racially profile Muslim travelers in order to prevent terrorism. The problem is, although Mr O’Leary’s comments may be seen as some as ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’, they are broadly correct.

The vast majority of Islamic terrorist attacks that have occurred both in the West and elsewhere have been undertaken by single Muslim males. Yes there have been some exceptions such as the convert bitch who wanted to blow up St Paul’s cathedral and those Muslim extremists who try to evade detection by traveling with their families, families that the Muslim terrorist might be willing to kill in the name of Allah. But, on the whole, it is single Muslim males who are the perpetrators of Islamic terrorism. This means that in the case of air travel it is reasonable to subject those who are more likely to be Muslim to enhanced security checks or even refusal of travel.

Of course such a policy is going to throw up the occasional false negative and false positive, with no religious identifier on British travel documents the only way to start to identify the single male Muslim may be through appearance. This will inconvenience some people such as olive skinned ex Muslim Turks or Hindu men of South Asian appearance, that is regrettable but sadly inevitable. There’s also the issue of Muslim male terrorists who will hide their identities as much as possible and claim that they are Hindu or Sikh or Buddhist, three groups that are very well represented in Britain’s South Asian community. However, despite the inconvenience that this policy is going to cause to some innocent individuals, I believe that most people, even those erroneously singled out for extra pre-flight security checks, are sensible. They will know that Britain and its transport system faces danger from Islamic terror attack and realise that these extra checks are all for the greater good, the security of the traveling public.

Racial and gender profiling is not I agree a sharp instrument with which to tackle Islamic terror, it’s a very blunt one, but it is the best we have got at the present time. It may not be accurate 100% of the time but it’s better than the alternative which is to give everyone, whether they be good or bad, either a cursory security check or subject everyone to the sort of harsh and intrusive checks that would be required in order to keep aircraft and their passengers safe.

Those who are whining about this policy and about the comments made by Mr O’Leary, such as Khailid Mamood MP and the Muslim Council of Britain both seem to be putting the feelings of Islamic travelers way way ahead of security. As far as I’m concerned Mr O’Leary did nothing wrong in pointing out that those single male Muslim passengers, who make up the bulk of the cohort that commits Islamic terror offences, should be subjected to extra security examination. There is is nothing wrong with what Mr O’Leary has said or proposed. The facts are that lone Muslim males have perpetrated the vast majority of Islamic terror attacks in the UK in recent years and these attacks range from the Manchester Arena bombing right through to the recent stabbing jihad attacks that have taken place in London. Personally, if I was an air traveler, I’d want security to be placed well ahead of the ‘feelings’ of individual Muslim travelers. I would not be surprised if Mr O’Leary’s public repudiation of political correctness and prioritisaton of security, caused a lot more people to want to travel on his airline. This is because passengers or potential passengers may perceive it to be safer than traveling on an airline that doesn’t profile those perceived to be Muslim males.

Security has to come first and foremost over everything as it prioritises the safety of life above everything else, including the whines of Muslims and their organisations who don’t like the truth which is that it is their ideology that poses the biggest security threat to travelers.