Within days of Juan Williams' firing by NPR for admitting apprehension when seeing passengers in airports wearing Muslim garb and the over-the-top walk-out from "The View" TV talk show by Whoopie Goldberg and Joy Behar when Bill O'Reilly failed to use an adjective to describe the Muslims who attacked the US on 9/11, the FBI arrested the man shown above for plotting to attack various Metro stations in Northern Virginia. The man shown is Farooque Ahmed, a naturalized US citizen who was born in Pakistan, but has been living in the US for 17 years.
Ahmed thought he was plotting with members of al-Qaeda, but was actually conspiring with undercover FBI agents. The FBI was tipped off to Ahmed in January, when a source inside the Muslim community said the 34-year-old telecommunications worker was asking around, trying to join a terrorist group to kill Americans. This is the latest in a series of undercover FBI stings that have caught Muslim extremists in the US who have sought to join in the holy war against Americans, even though many of these extremists have been living in the US for years.
Around the DC beltway and interstate highways, there are electronic signs that advise motorists to "report suspicious activity" with a phone number noted to call. The street vendors who reported the suspicious SUV in Times Square in May (that was discovered to be packed with explosives by another Pakistani born US citizen of the Muslim faith) said they reported the vehicle to police because New Yorkers know that "if you see something, say something".
Within the last few days, another credible terrorist threat was discovered when explosives were found in packages on cargo planes bound for Chicago. This threat, of course, started in Yemen, not in the US, but it demonstrates once again that the Muslim extremists continue their war of terror aimed at Western targets and the US in particular.
So it must be asked: if Juan Williams or anyone else saw the man above taking photos inside Metro stations in Northern Virginia and/or otherwise acting suspiciously, wouldn't it cause an average citizen to be nervous or concerned? And should that concern lead such a person to report the activity to police or the FBI?
Or would the recent reactions of the Politically Correct Police at NPR, the co-hosts of "The View" or Time magazine cause average citizens to think that they could be accused of overreacting or being Islamophobic or racist and cause them not to "say something" like the Times Square street vendors did?
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