The letter titled “TSA stops jam but not bombs, (Rome News-Tribune, Jan. 7) should be read nationwide.  It illustrates the lengths to which we have gone since 9/11 to avoid “profiling.” Probably the next terrorist who tries to board one of our planes will avoid some of the glaring red flags of the Christmas Day terrorists like paying cash for a one-way ticket.  But he certainly cannot disguise himself as an Anglo-Saxon/Celtic/Slavic woman. It is true that all not all Muslims are terrorists. This seems to be the major concern of the Muslim spokesmen on television.  This was a concern of President Bush. But I know of no intelligent person who has accused all Muslims of being terrorist. It is true that Timothy McVeigh, an atheist and a Caucasian was a terrorist in the 1990s. He was tried, convicted and put to death. But we also have to know that every terrorist on and since 9/11, when nearly 3,000 were killed, have been Muslim males age 15-50.  Every one! Surely innocent Muslim men in that age group can understand why they need to be questioned more than to waste time and money to search a Caucasian woman returning from France with a tiny jar of French preserves.

RUTH BAIRD SHAW, Rome