By treating people as suspicious purely because of who they are, how they look, or where they pray, rather than what they do or have done, ethnic profiling threatens the very ethos of the EU, a union firmly rooted in values of liberty, democracy, and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
只是因为人们的长相、信仰，而不是依据他们的所作所为，就把其认作是嫌疑人，这种以种族特征做出判断的方式威胁到欧盟的核心价值观，欧盟根深蒂固的信仰本来在于自由、民主和对人权和基本自由的尊重。