"Here's a news flash for you: Most "arab" American business owners are here because they reject "Islamism" even if they are nominally Muslim."
You may be right in what you say, but I'm living in Northern New Jersey and recent history demonstrates that the terrorists are HERE! Let me tell you, there is not a person living in the Metro area who doesn't have a chill in their heart tonight (actually very early monday morning) over these unprecedented security warnings.
And all the talk about "surveillance" of the buildings, how many people walk by during an hour, etc. Maybe the US or Russia has the ability to find that out via spy satellites, Osama, et al. do not. They had to count the people the old fashioned way, by having some person stand and do it. So whoever did that was some Arab terrorist, lolling about the streets of Newark or New York or DC.
You'll say, that's not a business person and you'd be correct. But that terrorist advance man very likely spends most of his (or her) time working for some business.
I'd like to see the Muslim American business community come down strongly against terrorism, but so far they really haven't. At best most of them say something like: terrorism is wrong...But the Israelis are the real terrorists...BLAH BLAH BLAH
Wait'll we find out what the next 19 murderers were doing during their many years spent illegally in the US. A guy's gotta eat you know, even a terrorist.