>>The thread I'm reading here starts with a post about acts committed by an identifiable group of people, not a thought.

No the thread you are reading started with a post about an act that wasn't commited by anybody (that post has since been pulled).

>>bin Laden is an arab Muslim extremist who declared war on the USA years ago. The deeds that have been committed by his soldiers are a jihad, a holy war.

I have no problem with blaming Osama Bin Laden for the acts which he has committed. That does not mean that you can blame every muslim for the acts of Osama Bin Laden any more than you can blame every Christian for the acts of Timothy McVeigh.

Acts of terrorism in this country committed by Christians far outnumber those committed by Muslims. Therefore if profiling is appropriate we should be focused on Christians not Muslims.