The thing with profiling is that it can easily be abused, and creates a stigma associated with a certain group, which NEVER ends well. As an African-American Muslim I know people such as my dad who have faced unfair situations due to profiling. Also profiling has the potential to be very biased/abused by those unworthy of power, and cause other actions to be overlooked. I mean in the USA white supremacy is considered by the FBI to be the greatest terror threat to the USA right now, but President Chuckles the Ass-Clown, and his Legion of Doom are trying to focus on "Islamic" terrorism, and focus more attention on Muslims due to their moronic prejudice that goes against the facts. This is VERY dangerous,and sends a signal to the white supremacist(well considering President Dumbass surrounds himself with white supremacist, and probably is one it's not surprising but now I'm going off-topic). In fact correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't heard of any positive benefits due to profiling. We don't want to be Sam Harris or President Stupid Von Evil now do we?

@Greg,

I'd say yes it is still racist to do the things you said regarding racial profiling as it seems to me that it is based off a negative assumption of a person of that race without even knowing them at all, which is prejudice. 

Again thanks for your response Professor Keele:

With all due respect, I have to disagree with you regards to this as I think there are ways to ground morality in God without resorting to Divine Command Theory as I admit that I am not convinced by the response you have given as:

I'm not really sure that resolves the problem as much as simply appeals to the irrational. It's basically saying "oh yeah, well what if God was so super super super suuuuuper incomprehensibly amazing that you're compelled to submit to His arbitrary commands through sheer terror, confusion, and awe?"

Professor as with regards to your interpretation of the Surah I would recommend checking out the comments on this article(not the article itself), along with other points on the website in general which focus on reason and Islam rather than arbitrary wills:

https://asharisassemble.com/2015/08/21/isis-and-the-theology-of-rape-and-the-rubbish-responses-by-muslims/

Also with regards to the issue of Divine Command theory do you know how Avicenna, Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, and Averroes dealt with this issue as I know Avicenna/Averroes stood by intellectualism rather than voluntarism but I have trouble finding readings which elaborate on their works.

Thanks and peace.

Professor Keele as a fellow Muslim I'd like to welcome you to the forum.

With regards to Divine Command theory, and God not having to have a sufficient reason for doing this, I'll admit this is something I have severe problems with as for me it paints a picture of God that is one I have trouble accepting. It seems to me accepting this view entails that morality does not really exist in an objective way, and God's commands on us are arbitrary. In fact for me it looks like we are ultimately submitting to the arbitrary will of an infinite Nietzschean Ubermensch, who backs up His commands with nothing more than threats, forcing us to submit most likely out of fear of punishment. Under this view isn't morality nothing more than an issue of might makes right(which is something us theist criticize people like Dawkins for)? 

Another reason why this really bothers me is it's relationship to Hell. If God's actions are not based on reason and His will,then this means that the people He sends to Hell are there because He WANTED them to be there to be infinitely tortured. If God WANTS people to go to Hell in a motivation based on His arbitrary will rather than reason, then doesn't this make Him malevolent, and no different from a tyrant who punishes his subjects for no reason simply because he is the most powerful, and can.

I'm sorry if what I've written has offended you and I did not mean to do so, but I think holding to Divine Command Theory, and God not basing things on reason leaves us with this picture of God:

It should perhaps be noted here that not only the God of Islam but also the God of Christianity was originally conceived on the model of an Oriental despot -- such as Saddam Hussein -- insistent that his subjects should be always obedient to, and forever praising of, their master.

"essentially a cosmic Saddam Hussein -- an egomaniac who issues arbitrary commands and backs them up with nothing more than threats, but who also happens to be disembodied, immo

@Proclus

Does Lloyd Gerson himself adhere to Platonism actually? My UTM philosophy professor said he's sympathetic to it.