Bearded ones don't blow you up....

I often read the weblog Sepia Mutiny, and today there was a post about a pair of men flying while brown. They were pulled off the plane and their bags were sent ahead. It was a big foul up. Now, here is the kicker: the men were wearing "traditional" South Asian clothes and skull caps and one of them was reading the Koran. This scared the crap out of a flight attendent. Now, I pointed out that dressing likes this was likely to scare the crap out of people on a plane, so it is a really idiotic modus operandi for a terrorist, so the response was probably irrational. Frankly, the people you really have to be scared of look like me, "normal" and "assimilated" in appearance men who try and blend in before we blow up in your face (I'm saying "we" figuratively). Nevertheless, the human mind isn't primed ...