Actually, the ones I truly feel sorry for are the Christian Arabs, who escaped those Muslim crazies to come to the West. They came to the West to get away from those loonies -- some basically escaping only with the clothes on their back. Now they are given nasty looks by Americans, because we think that they are the very Muslim crazies that they escaped from. Essentially, they inadvertantly get victimized twice.
I am just as guilty of this -- when our Arab neighbor first moved in, my first thought was "sleeper cell". He's is mid-thirties with an American wife & two great kids. (He's been in the US since he was a baby.) When he said that he was "Christian", I thought "yeah, right". Then I met his father-in-law -- an ex FBI agent who worlked on the first WTC bombing, and I said "OK. He is fine, he is what he says what he is." Now, we just love the guy and his family and I feely crappy for ever having doubted him!
Caution is a virtue, these days, B. Drop the 'crappy' stuff. It doesn't *wear well* on anyone's sleeve.
Why feel crappy? It's normal, part of surviving to be leary of Arabs at this point in history.Anyone who isn't at least suspicious is a moron.There may and I use the word "may" come a day when having this attitude might not be fair,but we ain't there yet !!!
You just described a sleeper cell. Sorry but ya never know, keep your ears and eyes open.