MM Online - FBI probe after Jalur Gemilang at Merdeka party mistaken for IS-defaced US flag (extracts):
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 — A Malaysian engineer working in Kansas City in Missouri, United States has filed a discrimination suit after his Merdeka celebration last year was mistakenly reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a meeting of terrorist group, Islamic State (IS).
News outfit Kansas City Star reported yesterday that Munir Zanial, an engineer with Spirit Aerosystems, had a report lodged against him with the FBI last September after he rented a recreational lake operated by the Spirit Boeing Employees’ Association.
According to the lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Kansas City, someone who resembled a ranger or groundskeeper had reported to the employees’ association that a group “dressed in Muslim garb” had a US flag “desecrated with IS symbols.”
The association then reported the information to Spirit, which then reported the matter to the FBI.
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News outfit Kansas City Star reported yesterday that Munir Zanial, an engineer with Spirit Aerosystems, had a report lodged against him with the FBI last September after he rented a recreational lake operated by the Spirit Boeing Employees’ Association.
According to the lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Kansas City, someone who resembled a ranger or groundskeeper had reported to the employees’ association that a group “dressed in Muslim garb” had a US flag “desecrated with IS symbols.”
The association then reported the information to Spirit, which then reported the matter to the FBI.
I am not surprised. Despite the USA being virtually the top scientific and technological nation in the world, the average American is quite ignorant vis-a-vis the real World.
His 'limited' World is bordered by a country to the north (called Canada when he knows) where there are cops on horseback (called Mounties when he knows), and to the south by ... er ... a nation of, to him, slimy sneaky greasers (today modernised to 'wetbacks'). On the east is a big big sea beyond which some type of white people live, whilst towards the west the nips live across another big big sea.
His 'culture' consists of guns, baseball, basketball, (American type) football, TV, booze or coke and grilled steaks, burgers and 'freedom' fries.
But most of all, he is a very paranoid Yank, believing the Saracen will come for him soon.
It'll be a f**king wonder if he knows Malaysia, where it is or what its flag looks like.
So don't worry about it too much.
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must be Malaysia |