“We believe it’s a lone individual acting out his antagonism,” said David Gomez, who heads the FBI’s counterterrorism efforts in Seattle.

I personally had to take care of a teenage boy who was beaten to a pulp by schoolmates on September 13, 2001; he was greek, but “looked like a terrorist.” An officer of our synagogue, when I mentioned this in passing at a board meeting, said “they’re probably all terrorists, there’s no way of knowing.” Sure, and all Jews are assassins, since a Jew killed Rabin…
I have absolutely no issue with Moslems requesting extra security at their facilities. If there’s evidence of some ties to terrorism, let the authorities deal with it. But innocent people [and yes, there are innocent muslims in this world] deserve peace and security just as much as we do.

On July 4, 2002, a gunman killed 2 Israelis at the ticket counter of El Al Airlines at LAX. Although the gunman was not linked to any terrorist group, the man (an Egyptian) was upset at US support for Israel, and therefore the incident seems to have been motivated by political disagreement. This led the FBI to classify this shooting as a terrorist act, one of the few on U.S. soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Don’t you all remember the retaliatory crime (?)

Nah.