I don't know anything about the incident so I am not making any presumptions but this is at least partly caused by the ridiculous media coverage of terrorism and all the beat-up associated with it. Because of their way in reporting and sensationalism the average westerner is starting to associate any arabs with terrorists or the like. Unfortunately thats what you get with a completely biased media here in Australia especially commercial networks, its a brainwashing of its citizens subvertly. This is just my general opinion, its not speciafically at this incident, although these sorts of things are a result.