Tel-Chai Nation

It looks like Muslim terrorist moles are still at large in the US. WBEN 930 from Buffalo (via Debbie Schlussel) reports about a teenager who caused a bomb scare. Click here for the station's audio recording as well, which gives some more precise details.

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - A traveler stopped at Buffalo Niagara International Airport last night lead to some tense moments when the young man claimed he had a bomb.

The teenager and his father were stopped by airport security and while the father was cooperating with authorities, his son allegedly started praying loudly in Arabic and then announced "I have a bomb", "I wanna die"' and "We're all gonna die".

With guns drawn on him, the 16-year-old then tore off its backpack and reached into it. Officers wrestled him to the ground and found he had no weapons or explosives, but several cell phones.

The FBI questioned the young man, who was then taken to Erie County Medical Center for a psychiatric evaluation.

Now it's disturbing enough that the teenager had cellphones in his backpack, since cellphones have been used to conceal bomb detonaters. But that aside, here's something to ponder: regardless of age, why wasn't the teen AND his father charged with disturbing the peace at the airport? A few years ago, there were a few cases of plane passengers who voiced offensive lies and sick jokes aloud in the airport terminals that they'd hidden bombs in the planes they'd ridden, which was offensive to the airline attendants who hosted them. This is just as serious, and for that, the teen and the father should both be fined, if anything, for frightening and angering everyone.

This also brings up an important subject worth debating - if Muslim parents willingly and willfully raise their children for violence and crime. And if the father mentioned here was a Muslim, there too is something to investigate.

To bring in a psychiatrist is not enough. In fact, it's fairly moot.

Update: the suspects' exact names are Ehsan Chowdhury (the father) and Alif Chowdhury (the son). The AP report I linked to, however, predictably omits all about the boy's talking in Arabic. On Jihad Watch, one of the commentors notes that the family name is common among the Pakistanis/Bangladeshis, and is also one of the few names used by both Muslims and Hindus (and the father, with the name Ehsan, could be from Bangladesh).

More at Northeast Intelligence Network.

Also available at Basil's Blog, Cao's Blog, Jo's Cafe. Others on the subject include The Travel Bloggers, You Heard it Here, Patsy Bluth, Testimony.