As if Americans don’t have enough of a reason to dislike the people who run the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), their executive director has decided to give us another one. Speaking as if he were the Al Sharpton for the Muslim community, Ahmed Bedier said “Had they been two white kids nobody would be asking any questions“, referring to the arrests of Yousef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed.

Here is the background story:

Mohamed and Megahed were stopped for speeding Saturday night on U.S. Highway 176 near Goose Creek, which is the site of the Naval Weapons Station and houses the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, a military prison where enemy combatants have been held.

They were heading west, away from Goose Creek, when they were pulled over about seven miles from the sprawling Navy facility, police said.

Officers became suspicious because the men quickly put away a laptop computer and couldn’t immediately say what they were doing in the area or where they were going, DeWitt said.

A deputy then found what he thought were explosives in the 2000 Toyota Camry and called the bomb squad. Technicians confirmed the devices were pipe bombs and destroyed them, according to sworn statements in the arrest warrants.

To be fair, there has been no connection between these two men and any organization which supports terrorism (except for CAIR), however to claim that they were only arrested because they were Muslim is preposterous. The fact is, these two men were pulled over for speeding, acted suspiciously, could not explain what they were doing in the area (not far from a naval base which holds enemy combatants), and they were carrying explosives.

If CAIR ever wants to be taken seriously by the American people their response to incidents like this should be something along the lines of “Although we do not condone violence in any way, we will reserve our judgment in this matter until more facts are known.” The only fact that CAIR seems to care about however is that the two men arrested were Muslim, that in and of itself makes them innocent in CAIR’s eyes.

Hat Tip Right Wing News

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