Israeli minister justifies profiling after Trump remarks

June 20, 2016 20:36

A senior Israeli official today justified profiling Muslims for security reasons, after Donald Trump said he was open to adopting the controversial practice in the United States and cited Israel.

Intelligence agencies "must characterise, see where the dangers are coming from, and locate them," Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said.

"It's not the entire population, but sometimes there is a certain type of terror such as Islamic terror. You can only look for it among Muslims," he said in a briefing to reporters.

Trump, the free-talking presumptive Republican presidential nominee, came close to endorsing profiling outright in an interview aired Sunday on CBS.

His comments came in a discussion on the Orlando nightclub massacre by shooter Omar Mateen, who was Muslim, and past comments by Trump to the effect that if elected president in November he "respectfully" would place mosques under surveillance.

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