So true.... It points out the fundamental problem with bigotry: it makes people blind to possible (and likely) answers. Chief Moose was guilty of it, and so (it seems) were our local ranters.
Yeah, it was really fueled by some local copts themselves, IIRC. The "torture," which was not "Islamic" as people tried to interpret, might have been to force out the ATM codes.
Naturally we haven't heard the whole story.