I know that this muslim persecution complex really took off after 9-11 (yes, in response to white people severely overreacting and killing muslim looking hindus, etc). But let's assume level of pro and anti muslim rhetorics was at the current level but 9-11 has not happened yet.
Imagine police actually stopping the 9-11 by arresting these assholes after people at flying school reported these Middle East student are not interested in taking off/landing lessons and nothing else. Would they get free trip to White House? Cause their "crime" at that point was pretty non-existent they were acting order of magnitude less suspicious than Ahmed.
Ahmed was not arrested and suspended for making a bomb and being muslim, he was suspended for bringing hoax bomb, and arrested for the same thing, but mostly for acting like a villain from 24. In fact, I think 24 was probably an inspiration for all this. they took their script unchanged, same clock bomb and the same "I am not talking to you" attitude. Even some pretty liberal media persons (Chris Matthews, etc) say "You know, I don't know, mmmmm" about all this.
You (leftists on this thread) need a reality check, you do not represent majority, you do not even represent sizable minority.