More Islamophobia

By Semperpapa

Two men fly from Chicago to Amsterdam, where they are intercepted and arrested by the Dutch authorities under suspicion of terrorism.
U.S. law enforcement official identified the men as Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi and Hezam al Murisi, obviously two members of the vast right wing conspiracy.
The two men, who are from the Detroit area, flew to Chicago where they boarded the plane for Amsterdam.
One of them, Al Soofi, was carrying $7,000 in cash and both had some strange items I their luggages, like watches taped to a bottle of Pepto Bismol and cell phones also taped together.
Of course, none of the individual items alone are a violation of the law, any law, but they remain ultimately suspicious in nature.
Some of the investigating authorities are now looking into the possibility of the two men being involved in some sort of a dry run to assess the security level of air travel.

So how long before the accusations of islamophobia start to surface? How long before some spokehole from CAIR is going to run to any available microphone and declare the intention to file civil rights violation law suit against the TSA?
I am also expecting any minute that NY mayor Bloomberg will come out and state that the two men must have been part of the Glenn Beck rally in Washington on Saturday or the TEA party movement, and Janet Napolitano and the Obama administration stating that there is no Islamic connection, even before any investigation is under way.

On a positive note, it appears that this time the TSA was more alert regarding communicating with the Dutch authorities regarding the imminent arrival of the two characters into Amsterdam.
And I tend to trust the Dutch counter-terrorism unit to look into these two men’s background and see if there may be some connection with some other shady character.

I know, this is all part of the increaing islamophobia that is afflicting Americans, but who can really blame us?

Just my thoughts!