Soap box! (sorry)

I know people feel the need to be overly cautious about air travel safety these days, but if a white family were talking which were the safest seats on an airplane do you think anyone would have said anything to an airline employee?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE5012XV20090102

Seriously, that is an entirely innocuous discussion. And if they were actually planning on hi-jacking the plane, I imagine travel safety would not be their concern. I guess the one good thing is that the FBI handled the situation well, according to the family they interrogated, and the agents even spoke to the airline on the family's behalf to get them on another flight. Why the airline refused is a freaking mystery, but whatever. The thing is that I'm pretty fucking certain the only reason this happened in the first place was because this family was Muslim.

And, like Margaret Cho said, suspecting people of terrorism because they look like the people behind the 9/11 attacks is like arresting Emmanuel Lewis because Gary Coleman punched that woman. Wise up, America.