The mother of one of the five young men arrested in Pakistan told CNN Thursday that her son was in that country to get married, not to plot terror attacks as Pakistani police have alleged.
….In an interview with CNN, Subira Farouk said her son, Umar, was one of the young men detained in the case. She said her husband also was arrested, which would bring to six the number of people in custody. Police confirmed they have six people in custody, not five, as was originally reported.
Farouk said her son would never plot a terror attack. She described him as a business student at George Mason University in suburban Washington.
Farouk said she and her husband went to Pakistan to arrange a marriage for their son, who surprised her by traveling from the United States.
One significant result of the decline of Pakistan’s reputation in America is that there is now an elevated risk to anyone traveling to Pakistan of getting caught up in something like this, over and above the usual harassment and hyper-vigilance that now applies to Muslims during travel.
An American who hates Muslims 11:43 pm on December 16, 2009 Permalink |
All muslims should be profiled. Period. They hate Americans so why do we allow them to travel within our broders so freely. If I step onto a plane with a bunch of muslins you can be damn sure of two things, either one I’m getting off the plane or two the muslins are. We as Americans need to STOP being so PC. So what if I offend you. You don’t like…go the hell back where you come from. You think we are going to miss you….yeah right!
bingregory 11:54 pm on December 16, 2009 Permalink |
Muslims should create their own profile, actually. If you have more documentary evidence on yourself than they do, you can’t get framed! Hasan Elahi shows us the way at Tracking Transience .