To apologize to whining Islamists.
FBI’s release of ferry passenger photos resented
For Arabs and Muslims across the Puget Sound area, a rise in the nation’s threat level or a bombing halfway around the world often can mark a period of unease.
In the years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, leaders in that community say incidents of profiling and harassment have ebbed and flowed — increasing when Muslims are linked to news of the day.
Now the FBI’s release of photographs of two men of unknown origin, who the agency says were observed acting suspiciously aboard as many as six different Washington ferry routes in recent weeks, is creating new worries in the community.
Muslim- and Arab-American leaders are upset that the FBI didn’t consult them — as it has done in other instances — before releasing the photos on the Internet and to news organizations. They worry that the action may fracture the relationship the agency and the community have carefully built.
When the “leaders in the Arab and Muslim community” can show proof that harrassment has gone up when Muslims are linked in the news, I’ll give them a small touch of sympathy. When they “consult” law enforcement about members of their community who take trips to questionable places (like they didn’t do with local jihadi, James Ujjama), then there is no way in hell that they have earned the right to be “consulted”.
The “asian community leaders” don’t demand they be consutled on FBI matters. The “African American community leaders” don’t even demand this special power. These “arab and Muslim community leaders” are like spoiled children.
For the non-local folks, this articleis in the Seattle Times, and not the Seattle PI. The Times did print the pics, though they waited a day to think it over.